Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne
by Anna Bikont
appears in Holocaust, History, and Nonfiction.
In July 1941, just weeks after the Germans invaded Russia, the Jewish population of a small Polish town ? hundreds of men, women and children ? were ordered out of their homes, and forced into a barn. The barn was then set on fire. Anyone attempting to escape, or found in hiding, was quickly killed.The story soon spread that the massacre was organi...
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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