Jacques Rossi

Jacques Rossi (10 October 1909, Wrocław – 30 June 2004, Paris) was a Polish-French writer and polyglot.

In 1937, he was called to Moscow and, most likely due to his prior connection with Trotsky[citation needed], was imprisoned in Soviet camps until after Stalin's death in 1953.

A polyglot, he was a lecturer in the University of Warsaw School of Foreign Languages under the name Jacek Rossi.

In the late 1980s, he spent time as a visiting scholar at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. where he wrote his memoires and an "encyclopedia on the Gulag" as he referred to it in conversation.

At the end of his life he recorded a series of interviews which were subsequently published as Jacques, le Français : pour mémoire du Goulag.