# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-karski
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:25.533Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-karski"
name: "Jan Karski"
slug: "jan-karski"
description: "Jan Karski 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. He reported about the state of Poland, its many competing resistance factions, and also about Germany's destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and its operation of extermination camps on Polish soil that were murdering Jews, Poles, and others."
tagline: "Polish World War II officer, resistance fighter and diplomat (1914–2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Karski_-_Instytut_w_Rudzie_%C5%9Al%C4%85skiej.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Public Official"
  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1914-06-24"
deathDate: "2000-07-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.70521333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.jankarski.net/en"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump