The occasion for the conversation was the biography of Weissberg-Cybulski written by Professor Irena Grudzińska-Gross.
The meeting was hosted by a friend of Borderland, Professor Timothy Snyder.
Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski was an Austrian physicist, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He documented Stalinist terror and Jewish persecution in 20th-century Europe. He is famous for The Accused and Advocate for the Dead, chronicling Stalinist terror and Jewish persecution.
Irena Grudzińska‑Gross is a Polish‑American historian and essayist exploring memory, totalitarianism, Jewish‑Polish relations, and modern European cultural history.
Timothy Snyder is an American historian, specializing in Central Europe, authoritarianism, Ukraine, the Holocaust and democracy. He holds the Chair in Modern European History at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.