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02-12-2011, 06:32 PM
http://www.thenews.pl/international/artykul148941_golden-harvest---an-important-but-difficult-read--says-publisher.html
The editor at the Znak publishing house spoke to reporter John Beauchamp at a press conference in Krakow today to publicise the book’s launch in March.
Golden Harvest has already caused outrage among many in Poland weeks before publication. In the book, Jan Gross writes of how some Poles gained financially from the plight of Jews during the Holocaust.
As you will hear in the interview, the editor asked for additional sources and clarifications to the original text due to its highly controversial content.
“This really is an important book,” adds Maciej Gablankowski.
Controversial historian Jan T. Gross and his wife have defended their latest book which includes a section on ‘Polish gold-diggers’ at the Treblinka Nazi death camp after WW II, in an interview on Polish public TV.
The Princeton-based academic, whose books about Polish-Jewish relations have sparked both acclaim and disdain, spoke in the wake of a press release about his forthcoming book, Golden Harvest.
The historian’s latest volume, which will be in bookshops in Poland early this year and internationally in August, focuses on how Poles profited from Jewish property as a result of the Holocaust. The book begins, say press reports, with a description of how locals from the area around the Treblinka Nazi death camp dug up the bones of dead Jews looking for valuables.
“There are immense matters regarding questions of society and the Jews which are still not known,” Gross told TVP television.
text goes on here (http://www.thenews.pl/international/artykul146730_gross-defends-polish-gold-diggers-book.html)
The editor at the Znak publishing house spoke to reporter John Beauchamp at a press conference in Krakow today to publicise the book’s launch in March.
Golden Harvest has already caused outrage among many in Poland weeks before publication. In the book, Jan Gross writes of how some Poles gained financially from the plight of Jews during the Holocaust.
As you will hear in the interview, the editor asked for additional sources and clarifications to the original text due to its highly controversial content.
“This really is an important book,” adds Maciej Gablankowski.
Controversial historian Jan T. Gross and his wife have defended their latest book which includes a section on ‘Polish gold-diggers’ at the Treblinka Nazi death camp after WW II, in an interview on Polish public TV.
The Princeton-based academic, whose books about Polish-Jewish relations have sparked both acclaim and disdain, spoke in the wake of a press release about his forthcoming book, Golden Harvest.
The historian’s latest volume, which will be in bookshops in Poland early this year and internationally in August, focuses on how Poles profited from Jewish property as a result of the Holocaust. The book begins, say press reports, with a description of how locals from the area around the Treblinka Nazi death camp dug up the bones of dead Jews looking for valuables.
“There are immense matters regarding questions of society and the Jews which are still not known,” Gross told TVP television.
text goes on here (http://www.thenews.pl/international/artykul146730_gross-defends-polish-gold-diggers-book.html)