| Abstract | Unsettled Memory ofWorld War II in Postcommunist Poland, can be summarized as follows: (1) the massacre of Jedwabne's Jews on 10 July 1941 remained very much alive in local oral tradition (p. 156) and was a subject of a genuine communal recollecting (p. 173); (2) there was a local initiative, which took the form of a memory project, aiming to achieve a genuine re-remembering of the tragic events (p. 173); and (3) the initiative was unsuccessful because of the incorporation of Jedwabne into the national debate, the politicization of the remembrance, and the character of the mass media coverage, which managed to disturb local remembrance and prevent a genuine rethinking of the past (p. 175). See the public opinion poll conducted by CBOS (Polish Public Survey Agency) on 23-25 Nov. 2002, Gazeta Wyborcza, 12 Dec. 2002; and "Trend Reports Poles' Opinions about the Crime in Jedwabne-Changes in Social Consciousness," Polish Sociological Review, no. 1 (137) (2002): 117-28.
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