Princeton University professor Jan Tomasz Gross faces losing Order of Merit over comments Polish villagers were complicit in massacre of JewsAcademics enjoy rallied to the defence of one of the world’s main Holocaust historians after reports that Poland intends to strip him of a national honour because he claimed that Poles were complicit in Nazi war crimes.
Princeton University professor Jan Tomasz Gross,69, was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in 1996. He is best known for his 2001 book Neighbors, or which describes in graphic detail the 1941 massacre by Polish villagers of up to 1600 Jewish men,women and children. The book inspired Aftermath (Pokłosie), a 2012 film directed by Władysław Pasikowski.
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Source: theguardian.com