Atrocity amnesia

Mar 15, 2017, 06:09 PM

What happens when neighbors kills neighbors? What happens when the perpetrators strive to bury the past? The past can still both shape and haunt the present, as the villagers of the small Polish town of Jedwabne have found, decades after other villagers there rounded up and killed hundreds of their Jewish neighbors. The World's Nina Porzucki visits the village, to see how that past is remembered, and who's willing to talk about it.