The cases are similar no wanted their neighbors to know. Even after the war, it was not talked about a fear of harm. It pushes more for the deep root anti-Semitism in Poland during and after the war. Memories of horrendous acts last in the minds of those who witness it, and in the communities, it happened in. The massacre of the Jews in Jedwane preserved through the generations. Gross places Jedwane in the larger context of Polish memory in towns where Jews were murdered, the memory was kept alive. There is a rural memory in Poland of what happened to their Jews. While there are those who deny who is responsible for the massacre in Jedwane the resident know the Jews were murdered by their neighbors.
Gross is using Jedwane for a larger understanding of the "polish awareness to horrendous crime," that runs counter to their collective memory. He wants Poles to understand the complexity of what happened during the Holocaust in