Centered on the 1941 Jedwabne Massacre of Jews in Poland, ‘Our Class’ Is Both Harrowing and Uplifting

For all the misery and hate ‘Our Class’ documents, it also reflects and celebrates our potential to rise above such things.

Jeremy Daniel
The Cast of 'Our Class.' Jeremy Daniel

There’s been a lot of debate recently about what constitutes a genocidal attack, but here’s an example that should clear the bar for most folks: An estimated 1,600 people — many of them women, children, and elderly — are rounded up purely on the basis of their shared religion and ethnicity and herded into a barn, which is then locked and set on fire.  

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