Jan Tomasz Gross’s text appeared in Tygodnik Powszechny No. 32/04, opening a debate which also included contributions from Paweł Machcewicz and Rafał Wnuk (“The horrible nature of the crimes committed in Jedwabne and Radziłów makes them exceptional primarily from our point of view, since we live in relative stability and peace"), Jerzy Jedlicki (“It was simply that not one of those who knew wanted to introduce their private knowledge into the public domain; it was better to forget"), Hanna Świda-Ziemba, Władysław Bartoszewski, Jan Woleński, Marcin Kula, Dawid Warszawski, and Wojciech Lizak; the themes present in “Collective Oblivion" were developed a few years later in Fear. In 2006, Tygodnik Powszechny published an article by Gross on the Kielce pogrom (“I wish to explain that the blood on my clothes..."); in that text, Gross also used the materials...