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Jan Karski

Polish World War II officer, resistance fighter and diplomat (1914–2000)

  • Fame54.5
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia10.3K
Source-basedFalling
Lived 1914–2000, aged 86
PoliticiansPublic Official
  • Wikipedia
    28 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1914–2000
    Aged 86
  • Known for
    Shoah
    1985
Summary
Updated 2026-08-18

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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54.5
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Historical22.7
Source confidence70.0
Completeness70.0
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