Irena Grudzińska-Gross

Jun 13, 2023 | publicseminar.org | Irena Grudzińska-Gross |Evangeline Riddiford Graham |Geoffrey Kurtz |Mitchell Abidor

Prof. Jan Grabowski, University of Ottawa. Credit: Adrian Grycuk / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 PL)On May 30, in Warsaw, the Polish Sejm deputy Grzegorz Braun interrupted a lecture by Professor Jan Grabowski, a historian reporting on the state of research about the World War II extinction of Polish Jews. Braun climbed onto the rostrum, threatening Grabowski, and trashed the microphone and speakers—as if not only physically, but also symbolically taking away the lecturer’s voice.