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		"TRUTH SQUAD" CONFRONTS  GROSS AT N.Y. LECTURE

                     New York (PMN)--New York University Professor Jan T. Gross received less than a
                     friendly reception when he came to the City University of New York Graduate Center on
                     February 6, 2002, to promote his controversial book, "Neighbors." His lecture there left no
                     doubt he was intent on putting the blame for a 1941 wartime atrocity in the small Polish town
                     of Jedwabne on the local Polish population and not on the Germans who were in control
                     there. But a "truth squad" of New York Polish Americans was ready for him when a
                     discussion period followed his presentation.

                     Charles Chotkowski, Director of Research for the Polish American Congress Holocaust
                     Documentation Committee, charged Gross with factual errors regarding the Catholic Church
                     and Lomza's Bishop Stanislaw Lukomski. Gross' lengthy response appeared to be more an
                     attempt of rationalization than a frank admission of mishandling the historical record.

                     Jan Moor-Jankowski, M.D., for 30 years a professor of forensic medicine of the New York
                     University School of Medicine, then stunned Gross with a frontal attack on the credibility of
                     "Neighbors." He made a striking comparison of it with another Holocaust bestseller reviewed
                     only a day before in the Wall Street Journal. The book, "Fragments," was written by an
                     imposter who claimed he was a Jewish Holocaust survivor when, in fact, he was not. The Wall
                     Street Journal reviewer called it a "coldly planned fraud" or a work of "a deranged man who
                     actually believes the myths he has constructed for himself." Dr. Moor Jankowski said that he
                     has the same opinion of Dr. Gross and his book "Neighbors."

                     Dr. Gross did not even attempt to rebut Dr. Moor Jankowski's statement. (It should be noted
                     that Dr. Moor Jankowski was hailed in American and Polish media for helping Jews during
                     WWII in Poland. He was decorated by the President of France for his Resistance activities
                     and also received a medal from Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir for helping to organize the
                     teaching of medicine in Israel. He is the only American member of the French Academy of
                     Medicine.)

                     Gross came in for another surprise when Boleslaw Domitrz spoke up to give his testimony as
                     an eyewitness to the 1941 Jedwabne atrocity by uniformed Germans. However, in his book
                     Gross accused the Poles of putting all the town's 1600 Jewish residents into a barn and
                     burning them alive. Gross's version of events was denied by several witnesses. To have Mr.
                     Domitrz now appear in New York and confront Gross added an explosive sense of drama to
                     the meeting. Domitrz recalled what happened on the day the event in question took place.
                     From afar, he and two of his teenage friends saw smoke rising from the burning barn. Out of
                     boyhood curiosity, Domitrz said they tried to get a closer look at the barn. As they
                     approached the fire they realized that there were no Poles around. Everyone seemed to have
                     gone indoors as if from some dreadful and ominous fear. The only people the boys saw
                     around the barn were Germans in uniform. Nobody else.

                     "When we realized we were the only Poles out there," said Domitrz, "we were so scared the
                     Germans might see us and throw us into the fire that we turned around and ran right back as
                     fast as we could."

                     When Mr. Domitrz finished his statement, Dr. Gross was visibly shaken and offered no
                     questions or rebuttal to the eyewitness testimony. Dr. Braham, the moderator, then abruptly
                     adjourned the session.