Jan Karski
Polish World War II officer, resistance fighter and diplomat (1914-2000) · Poland · Politicians · Died at 86
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Something wrong?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.
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Jan Kozielewski's handwritten pre-WWII document showing birthdate from Lviv archives
Jan Karski's missions
The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland, by the Polish government-in-exile, publicized the Raczyński's Note addressed to the wartime allies of the then-United Nations on 10 December 1942
US stamp from 1943, a tribute to Polish Underground State
Jan Karski with General Colin Powell at the 1993 opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Jan Karski Statue in Tel Aviv University
Jan Karski's Bench in front of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York CityAwards
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About this person
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.
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