Dan Gross Memorial

Daniel Gross was born in the Bronx (NYC) to secular Jewish parents who emigrated from Eastern Poland. He graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Cooper Union. He had a 38-year career as a Research Engineer with the National Bureau of Standards (later the National Institute of Science and Technology) performing research dealing primarily with the growth and spread of fires in buildings. Upon retirement, he volunteered with the National Park Service to conduct research on the recently declassified records at the National Archives (NARA) dealing with interrogation of enemy prisoners of war at Fort Hunt (“Post Office Box 1142”). He broadened his research at NARA to concentrate on the history and demographics of the training of intelligence officers at Camp Ritchie, Maryland during World War II.