Neighbors. The destruction of a Jewish shtetl (№ 386518)

Why Wyzykowski had to run from your own home? "Hersek, so you survived?" - with distrust, contempt and menace were repeated the familiar poles of Jedwabne saw Herschel of Pekah when he returned from his hiding place in the forest. <...> Herschel Pekar, the Jews who managed to survive, Wyrzykowska, other poles, who throughout the country sheltered Jews, and after the war in fear concealed this fact from their neighbors, were inconvenient witnesses of the crimes committed, the fruits of which he ever enjoyed; they were walking with remorse and a potential threat.