Nov. 7, 2006
Historian to discuss Communist underground during Holocaust
Worcester, Mass. - "The Holocaust, Communism, and the Jews of Warsaw" are the subjects of a free, public lecture to be presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, beginning at 4 p.m. Thursday, November 30, in the Rose Library of the Cohen-Lasry House, 11 Hawthorne St.
Noted scholar Piotr Wrobel, Associate Professor of History and Konstanty Reynart Chair of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto, will discuss the political radical left in the Warsaw Ghetto, and Jews in the Communist underground.
This event is part of the Fall 2006 Lecture Series of the Higgins School of Humanities at Clark University. For further information please contact 508-793-8897.
Wrobel holds a Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw. He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of European History in Mainz, The Institute of Polish Jewish Studies at Oxford, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. He was a research fellow at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, and served as research director of a clandestine Eastern Archive. He has written over fifty articles and nine books dealing with Polish history, many of which discuss the Jews of Poland. His latest include "Nation and History: Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War" and "The Devil's Playground: Poland in World War II."