Jedwabne debate: reshaping Polish national mythology

In recent decades, the subject of collective memory has become a compelling preoccupation of academics. Various new studies reveal that the Holocaust was repressed and excluded from public debate for a relatively long period of time. The
development of public debate was dependent on a political stability that permitted public reckoning. Between 2000 and 2002, Poland was the foremost national community undergoing a profound public discussion, triggered by the publication of 'Neighbours' by Jan Tomasz Gross, which describes the collective murder of the Jewish community of Jedwabne by its ethnic Polish neighbours