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Jan Karski (born Jan Kozielewski, 24 June 1914 – 13 July 2000) was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and to Poland's Western Allies about the situation in German-occupied Poland .
Jul 22, 2021 · Jan Karski was an underground courier for the Polish government-in-exile. He delivered evidence of the mass murder of European Jews to the western Allies. He reported on Nazi atrocities in the Warsaw ghetto and on the deportation of Jews to killing centers.
Before the outbreak of World War II on September 1, 1939, Jan Karski was a Polish reserve officer and a junior diplomat with large ambitions and a bright future. On September 17, 1939, Soviet forces invaded his country from the east, and Karski’s life was sent careening in a new direction.
Jul 15, 2000 · Jan Karski, a liaison officer of the Polish underground who infiltrated both the Warsaw Ghetto and a German concentration camp and then carried the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to a...
Member of the Polish government-in-exile Jan Karski, who had been smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto and a concentration camp, who informed world leaders on the treatment of the Jews
Jan Karski about his meeting with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1943. Created by Claude Lanzmann during the filming of SHOAH Used by permission of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum...
Jul 27, 2023 · In writing the story of Polish Catholic diplomat Jan Karski, who in 1943 brought eye-witness evidence of Nazi atrocities directly to Western leaders, creators of the play and film "Remember This" had many sources to draw on.
