Volume 48, Number 9 · May 31, 2001
Heroes and Victims
By István Deák
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Jan T. Gross
Princeton University Press, 261 pp., $19.95
The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust
Tzvetan Todorov, translated from the French by Arthur Denner
Princeton University Press, 190 pp., $26.95. To be published in July 2001.
The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazis: Persecution, Deportation, and Murder, 1933–1945
Michel Reynaud and Sylvie Graffard, translated from the French by James A. Moorhouse, with an introduction by Michael Berenbaum
Cooper Square Press, 304 pp., $27.95
In 1941 Polish townspeople and farmers who had been persecuted by the Soviet occupation forces took their revenge on their innocent Jewish neighbors by torturing them and burning them alive. In 1943 Bulgarian right-wing politicians saved virtually all the Jews in their country and were later rewarded for their efforts by execution or imprisonment under the Communist government. Throughout the war German religious zealots refused to say 'Heil Hitler,' preferring to be guillotined by the Nazis to serving in the war.
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