HIEU 158 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Jan T. Gross, Borne Sulinowo, Microhistory
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They saved the babies and the mothers. Has been in a lot of trouble with the polish gov. His mother was a christian aristocrat active in the resistance. His father was a jewish in hiding. He is a beneficiary of polish good deeds. Received two orders of merit from the polish gov. One for actions in the 60s and one for holocaust writings. Some have sought to deprive him of the second award because of. If he is right and that the jews died at the hands of their polish neighbors, then one can no longer claim that genocide was alien to the poles during the holocaust. A massacre of over 1000 jews in a small town. Gross claims most of the murderers were poles who did it of their own free will. Some say that there were many who took part in the massacre purely because they wanted to. Polish civilians following orders from the ss or the wehrmacht.
