The Crime And the Silence
“And if it hadn’t been for his testimony, the truth about Jedwabne would never have come to light. Antonina Wyrzykowska and Szmul Wasersztejn met as teenagers. She was sweet, pretty, cheerful; to the end of her life she was a good-looking woman and she giggled like a teenager. He was a homely redhead and a Jew. First fate threw them together unexpectedly and then separated them.
Wyrzykowska never told her children or anyone else what happened in Jedwabne. She didn’t want to tell me about it, eit...her. I had to get the truth out of her gradually, building on what I already knew.
“Did you in Janczewko,” I asked, “know right away who had killed the Jews in Jedwabne? The Germans or the Poles?”
“Who did it I don’t know to this day; after all, I wasn’t there.”
“Did people mention the names of any of the killers?”
“How would I know things like that?”
“Miss Antonina, you know very well…”
“My child, would you like some more tea, or a piece of gingerbread, maybe?”MoreLess
Wyrzykowska never told her children or anyone else what happened in Jedwabne. She didn’t want to tell me about it, eit...her. I had to get the truth out of her gradually, building on what I already knew.
“Did you in Janczewko,” I asked, “know right away who had killed the Jews in Jedwabne? The Germans or the Poles?”
“Who did it I don’t know to this day; after all, I wasn’t there.”
“Did people mention the names of any of the killers?”
“How would I know things like that?”
“Miss Antonina, you know very well…”
“My child, would you like some more tea, or a piece of gingerbread, maybe?”MoreLess
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