Jan T. Gross (b. 1947) is a historian who played a huge role in the revolution that began in the second half of the 1980s. and the far from over painful public debate concerning the role Poles played in the extermination of Poland's Jewish population during the Holocaust. Gross was the first to publish historical facts about the mass extermination of Jews by the Poles. After the publication in 2000 of his book “Neighbors” about the events in Jedwabne, an investigation was launched, and in 2002, Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski made an official apology to the Jewish people. The published book of conversations is not only a return to painful topics, but also an interesting biography of the historian against the background history itself: the interview-river illuminates Gross’s entire life path, inextricably linked with the dramatic events in Poland in the second half of the twentieth century (youth opposition, 1968, emigration; studies in the history of the Holocaust, the history of writing books that stirred public consciousness).