The Lost Legacy of Warsaw Ghetto Fighters, Featuring Jan Gross

The story of the abandonment of the Warsaw Jewish insurgents has been told by two commanders of the Ghetto Uprising who had survived. In the lecture, Jan Gross draws on the memoirs and other testimonies of survivors and witnesses to tell the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Fighters.

How to Attend

This event is offered both in person at Geisel Library and virtually via Zoom beginning at 5 p.m. Pacific time. Click the Register button at the top of this page and select your preferred mode of attendance.

About the Speaker

Jan T. Gross taught at Yale University, Emory University, and NYU and is currently professor of history emeritus at Princeton University. He taught courses and wrote books on 20th century totalitarian regimes, the Second World War and the Holocaust.

About the Series

The Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW) series is an education and outreach program co-sponsored by the UC San Diego Library and the Jewish Studies Program. It aims to preserve the memories of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust by offering public events involving witnesses, descendants and scholars and through the use of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive. Past HLHW workshops are now part of the Library’s digital collections and are available online.