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To: Arthur Radley who wrote (214011)	1/2/2002 1:21:50 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I am sure it is interesting. Of course, it also was very unusual, and there is reason to believe that the Nazis were intimidating the populace at the time.....

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (214011)	1/2/2002 1:40:28 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

RE: "Neighbors" by Jan T. Gross Dear Sirs, Your publication of the "Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland" by Jan T. Gross causes my deep concern regarding reputation of your publishing house. I and my colleagues have always valued the Princeton University Press as a reliable source of top quality textbooks and monographs. This good opinion will be damaged by publishing such a superficial and biased account. Polish version of the "Neighbors", issued last year, helped initiating an extensive investigation of the Jedwabne massacre by the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). It will take months to analyze all the data since new evidence appear every day. But what has been discovered already, contradicts the theses posed by this book. For example, shells of German munitions were found in the area of the barn in which the Jews were burned [Polish Press Agency (PAP), March 28]. Documents were found showing that apparently a special Gestapo unit employing criminals released from prisons were the actual perpetrators of the massacre of the Jedwabne Jews. Such facts do not completely exclude a possibility of a few local Poles helping the Germans. But they clearly expose poor research done by Jan T. Gross and his biased attitude. It becomes obvious that perhaps his major thesis, stating that "one half of the town killed the other half," is simply not true. In the ongoing debate in Poland, more than a thousand of articles have been printed already. Numerous researchers and reporters are searching for new traces and data. Specialists are discussing the details in the book and the unscientific methods applied by its author. Established and professional historians are exposing his selective treatment of the available materials and testimonies. They strongly criticize his attempts to attribute the massacre to all the non-Jewish community of Jedwabne. This unsubstantiated thesis, which Jan T. Gross made even a subtitle of the synopsis of his book published in The New Yorker [March 12 issue], is definitely an unfair generalization. However, it is often perceived as a documented indictment of the whole Polish society. Published by the renown Princeton University Press, the "Neighbors" will certainly support such malicious anti-Polish stereotypes and help perpetuate them. Your endorsement of this book as an academic source and a textbook about the Jewish Holocaust and Jewish-Polish relations is an unjustifiable error. After completion of the Jedwabne investigation, its results will be widely publicized. It is quite likely that court suits for libel will follow. Regardless of their results, it would be a disgrace, if the scientific community were astounded by the news that the Princeton University Press was used to spread falsehoods about the Holocaust.