MAHWAH, N.J. – Dr. Ellen G. Friedman, Professor of English and Holocaust and Genocide Studies at The College of New Jersey, and Dr. Atina Grossmann, Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Cooper Union in New York City, will discuss their recent work on the fate of the Polish Jews who during the Holocaust found refuge in the Soviet Union and beyond.
Approximately 3.3 million Jews resided in pre-war Poland, of whom approximately 10 percent survived, most of whom did so because they escaped to the Soviet Union.
Her books include Joyce Carol Oates, Breaking the Sequence: Women’s Experimental Fiction, and Morality USA. Atina Grossmann’s Shelter from the Holocaust Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union will also be published later this year by Wayne State University Press.
Born in New York of German-Jewish parents who found refuge during the Holocaust in India and Iran, Grossmann is a graduate of the City College of New York and Rutgers University.