"As happened in many cases in the war in Bosnia and Rwanda, in Jedwabne the perpetrators and their victims were neighbours. People knew each other's names and faces, they had gone to school together, they met every day in the streets and greeted each other, they shopped in each other's bakeries and butcher shops, they visited each other... Therefore, Poles did not just murder the Jews of Jedwabne, their neighbours. That would have had been too simple and, paradoxically, too difficult to do. As witness accounts demonstrated, the Jews were first humiliated by shouted offences, then spat at, clubbed, disembowelled, dragged through the streets, drowned in the lake nearby, and only at the end of that long day were they burned alive in a barn."