Visiting professor explains Nazi persecution of academics

Jeremy Cappello Lee | Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Dr. Zofia Golab-Meyer, professor emerita of physics at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, gave a historical account of Nazi and Soviet persecution of academics in Poland during World War II in a lecture entitled “Freedom, Tyranny and the Pursuit of Science: The Case of Poland 1918-1950.” Following the German occupation of Poland, Nazi forces