A Lecture by Prof. Jan T. Gross, Princeton University
On the threshold of the Holocaust: Jews in Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia, IX.1939-VI.1941
January 6, 2016 - a lecture by Jan T. Gross at the Wiener Library at 16:15
University staff and students are welcome
Prof. Jan T. Gross studies modern Europe, focusing on comparative politics, totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, Soviet and East European politics, and the Holocaust. His works include Neighbors (2001), which reconstructs the events that took place in July 1941 in the small Polish town of Jedwabne, where virtually every one of the town’s 1,600 Jewish residents was killed in a single day. Using eyewitness testimony Professor Gross demonstrates that the Jews of Jedwabne were murdered by their Polish neighbors "not by the German occupiers, as previously assumed. The shocking story occasioned an unprecedented reevaluation of Jewish-Polish relations during World War II and touched off passionate debate; "Uncivil Society: Communist Implosion in 1989" (2009) a study co-authored with Stephen Kotkin; Golden Harvest his recent book describes the plunder of Jews by the local population in Nazi-occupied Europe.
