Tykocin, a World Destroyed: A Novel

by Mogens Kjelgaard

For hundreds of years, Poles and Jews lived side by side in small towns and villages in what the Jews called shtetls . It was a world and a way of life that was destroyed in the Holocaust.
Such a small town was Tykocin in northeast Poland. In August 1941, a German SS-commando annihilated the Jewish half of Tykocin's population, 2,100 people. Four hundred and nineteen years of Polish–Jewish coexistence ceased forever. It happened as told in Tykocin, a World Destroyed .
Here is also the story about the friendship between the Polish farmer J

364 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Cynthia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Couldn´t stop reading. After I finished this book I visited the massgrave to give my conscience some peace