Atrocity amnesia
Whose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st century
English - March 15, 2017 18:09 - 37 minutes - 34 MB - ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsNews Society & Culture international africa america asia china culture environment foreign future history Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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What happens when neighbors kill neighbors? What happens when the perpetrators try 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.