Two Barns (2014)

Haim Hecht's documentary interviews Professor Jan Tomasz Gross, a Princeton University Historian whose book "Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland " (2001) described the massacre of some 1,600 Jews by their Polish neighbors in that small Polish town, causing much controversy in Poland. Prof. Shevah Weiss, a Holocaust survivor who was rescued from death by Polish villagers and who went on to become Speaker of the Israeli Parliament and Israel's Ambassador to Poland is the lead interviewee. Issac Lewin, who was at the outskirts of Jedwabne with his family on the day of the pogrom also participates. According to the documentary, the Jedwabne incident was not an exception but rather the rule which lead to the murder of tens of thousands of Jews by their Polish neighbors in villages across Poland, Russia and Ukraine. Other prominent Holocaust historians Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Prof Jan Garbowski and Dr. Havi Driefuss as well as Literature Nobel-prize winner Wislawa Szymborska are interviewed.