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Franciszek Piper
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Franciszek Piper is a Polish scholar, historian, and author. Most of his work concerns the Jewish Holocaust, especially the history of the concentration camps at Auschwitz. His book about the number of victims was the most important research on this topic. Dr. Piper is credited as one of the historians who helped establish a more accurate number of victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps. According to his research, at least 1.1 million people perished at Auschwitz-Birkenau, about 1 million of those were Jewish. He is the author of several books and chair of the Historical Department at the Auschwitz State Museum.
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