Lecture starts at 9:07. Q&A starts at 55:50. Jan Gross, emeritus professor of history at Princeton University, discusses mass murder and struggles over incorporating the atrocities of the Holocaust into official history by looking at anti-Jewish massacres in 1940s Poland.
Jan Gross is the author of groundbreaking books including “Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland” (2000) and "Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz” (2006). He is the Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society, emeritus and Professor of History, emeritus, at Princeton University.
This talk is part of the fall 2020 weekly lecture series, "Lessons (Not) Learned from the Holocaust," hosted by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington and made possible through the generosity of Steven Baral.
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