Dr. Antony Polonsky is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the Global Education Outreach Project at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Originally from South Africa, he has authored many historical works on the Holocaust, most recently the three-volume The Jews in Poland and Russia and an abridged edition, The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History.
Dr. Polonsky holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw, the Jagiellonian University, and the Polish University Abroad (Polski Uniwersytet na Obczyźnie) and was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.
