Scholars Defend Polish-Canadian Holocaust Historian

BY HANK REICHMAN In a February 2016 post, “Academic Freedom Threatened in Poland,” I reported on how academics in Poland were coming to the defense of Polish-American scholar Jan T. Gross, Professor of History at Princeton University and one of the world’s leading Holocaust historians, after reports that Poland intended to withdraw a national honor…

Academic Freedom Threatened in Poland

BY HANK REICHMAN Scholars in Poland have rallied to the defense of one of the world’s leading Holocaust historians after reports that Poland intends to withdraw a national honor because he claimed that Poles were complicit in Nazi war crimes.  Polish-American scholar Jan T. Gross, Professor of History at Princeton University, is threatened with being…