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	Jan Karski Dies at 86; Warned West About Holocaust
		Jan Karski at the opening of a 1944 exhibition on the Polish underground, for which he served as a liaison officer to Poland's government-in-exile in London.
		Karski later said that the Jews' proposals were "bitter and unrealistic," as if they knew such a program could not and would not be carried out, and that he had told them their five points went beyond international law.
		Karski established a $5,000 annual prize to be awarded by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research to authors documenting or interpreting Jewish contributions to Polish culture and science.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/071500poland-karski.html (2348 words)

	The Wallenberg Endowment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jan Karski, a courier for the Polish underground during World War II and an early witness to the Holocaust, was awarded the second Wallenberg Medal in Ann Arbor in September 1991.
		Karski’s experiences as a spy for the Polish government-in-exile and for the underground resistance movement in Poland are so amazing and terrifying that they could be the product of a great novelist’s imagination.
		Karski was so disillusioned when the war ended and Allied leaders began expressing shock and surprise at the discovery of the Nazi death camps that he ceased to speak about what he had seen.
	www.rackham.umich.edu /wallenberg/karski.html (599 words)

	Jan Karski
		Jan Karski, Polish resistance hero, was born on April 24, 1914.
		Karski was invited to speak all over the world, and awarded many honorary degrees, citations and decorations, and in 1994 a full-scale biography of him was published.
		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 mostly disbelieving West, died on Thursday in Washington.
	www.mishalov.com /Karski.html (4141 words)

	Jan Karski
		Jan Karski was born April 24, 1914, in Lodz, Poland.
		In 2002, a monument of Karski was unveiled at Georgetown University.
		Karski was made an honorary citzen of the State of Israel and a tree was planted bearing his name at Yad Vashem's Valley of the Righteous Among the Nations.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/karski.html (378 words)

	Karski
		In 1944, Karski wrote a book, "Story of a Secret State," about life in Nazi-occupied Poland which again described in painful detail what he saw happening to the Jews, as well as the cruel murders and tortures the Germans were increasingly inflicting on Catholic Poles as well.
		As interest in the Holocaust grew, Karski was "discovered" in the 1980s and for the first time began to tell his story to audiences around the world, though always downplaying his own role, preferring to keep the focus on the fate of the people he tried to save.
		Yet, for Karski all the honors in the world could not erase the sadness and bitterness of the fact that the leaders of the free world had failed to heed his words and had stood by while millions went to their deaths.
	www.polamjournal.com /Library/Biographies/Karski/karski.html (1176 words)

	Jonathan Tobin
		Jan Kozielewski was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1914, to an ardently Polish nationalistic family.
		Karski’s tale resonated so much with us because it exemplified many of the key historical themes of the Holocaust, especially the indifference of the Allied governments to the deaths of millions of Jews and the failure of many American Jews to speak out about it.
		Karski’s refusal to be part of the conspiracy of silence and to turn his eyes away from the suffering of the Jews shows us that decency and courage are possible, even under the worst of circumstances.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/tobin072100.asp (1125 words)

	News -- Statue Honors Jan Karski
		A statue honoring the memory of former Georgetown history professor Jan Karski was formally unveiled on Tuesday morning.
		Karski “was a very effective teacher extraordinarily smart and sharp,” fellow government professor and friend John Bailey said.
		In addition to the statue at Georgetown, Karski will also be honored through the dedication of the Jan Karski Room at the American Center of Polish Culture, which will retain memorabilia related to his life and his struggle against the Holocaust.
	www.thehoya.com /news/091702/news6.cfm (532 words)

	Amazon.com: Story of a Secret State: Books: Jan Karski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Karski was freed by a daring commando attack by the Underground combined with a well-placed bribe of a German guard.
		Jan Karski was a truly heroic man and is story is told in plain, straightforward langauge as the story of one man who took enormous risks to tell the story of the Holocaust.
		Jan Karski, a true patriot of Poland, gives you an "insider" view of what life was like for Poles during this period of time and the variety of methods used by the Polish Underground to resist the Nazis.
	www.amazon.com /Story-Secret-State-Jan-Karski/dp/1931541396 (1941 words)

	Editorials -- Jan Karski Remembered
		By age 28, Karski had already defended his native Poland from German invasion, escaped from a Soviet detention camp and survived torture at the hands of the Gestapo.
		Karski agreed, and returned to the trenches of war he had fought once already.
		Karski, a Catholic, donned a blue Star of David and saw the death and despair that Nazi Germany had wrought on the Jews of Europe.
	www.thehoya.com /editorials/020201/edit2.htm (374 words)

	Dia-pozytyw: PEOPLE, BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILES
		Karski's next mission was to see President Roosevelt, whom he informed about the fate of the Jews and the Poles, and about the heroic struggle that was being waged there every day.
		Karski was shocked by the futility of his mission.
		Karski's mission, despite having been encrypted, was deciphered by German intelligence, and Nazi propaganda announced that Karski was a Bolshevik agent, paid by American Jews, who is defaming the policy of the Third Reich in the USA.
	www.diapozytyw.pl /en/site/ludzie/jan_karski (1056 words)

	Mona Charen
		JAN KARSKI, the first person to alert the West about the Holocaust of Europe's Jews taking place behind German lines, died last week.
		Karski was born to a Catholic family in the city of Lodz in 1914.
		Karski was taken to the Izbica camp just outside Warsaw where Jewish men, women, children and babies were being herded into boxcars.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/charen072000.asp (737 words)

	Pole delivered unheeded messages on Holocaust
		Karski was smuggled into London and Washington, D.C., to deliver messages on behalf of the Polish underground as well as Jewish groups, he said.
		Karski was a young Polish diplomat when Germany invaded on Sept. 1, 1939.
		Karski did have a face-to-face meeting with Roosevelt in 1943, and while he considered it a failure - he did not talk about it during his lecture - others say it led directly to the president's creation of the War Refugee Board.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/95/950307Arc5338.html (1306 words)

	PolOrg - The Information Resource For Polonia Organizations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Professor Jan Karski was the first man to bring news of the Holocaust to Allied leaders in London and Washington, D.C., in an effort to stop the mass killing of Jews in Europe.
		Karski risked his life to save millions during World War II and he continued to fight against anti-Semitism, hatred, bigotry and totalitarianism for the rest of his life.
		The Jan Karski Freedom Award for Valor and Compassion recognizes and honors Susan Pollack for her acts of unselfish courage to rescue tens of thousands of people and bring them to freedom.
	www.polorg.com /Org/Display.asp?News=144 (818 words)

	Jan Karski: A Note by Michael Szporer
		Professor Karski, held six honorary degrees, received the highest honors from the Republic of Poland, and, as one of the Righteous Among Nations, was the honorary citizen of the state of Israel.
		Jan spent half an hour patiently explaining how his missions to the Ghetto and the camp had come about and precisely, in gruesome detail, what he had witnessed.
		Karski," Frankfurter said after a further pause, "a man like me talking to a man like you must be totally frank.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /classroom/Karski/sz.html (443 words)

	Jan Karski - How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust!
		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 mostly disbelieving West, died Thursday in the Washington, D.C., area.
		Karski became a skilled courier for the underground, crossing enemy lines to serve as a liaison between the Polish fighters and the West.
		Karski later said the Jews' proposals were "bitter and unrealistic," as if they knew that their proposals could not and would not be carried out.
	www.holocaustforgotten.com /karski.html (2694 words)

	Amazon.com: Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust: Books: E. Thomas Wood,Stanisław M. Jankowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jan Karski was a young diplomat in Poland when the Germans invaded in 1939.
		Karski's days in Britain got a bit dry in the book; his wartime adventures in occupied Europe and his postwar days at Georgetown University (as the world began to recognize his contributions) held my attention the most.
		Jan Karski, who died in July 2000, was a larger than life hero from World War II, who tried to smuggle out information from Nazi occupied Poland to warn the rest of the world about the horrors happening to the Jewish population of his country.
	www.amazon.com /Karski-How-Tried-Stop-Holocaust/dp/0471018562 (1321 words)

	Sen. DeWine on Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act
		During World War II, Jan Karski brought to the Allied leaders in the West--and at no small risk to his own life--what is believed to be the first eyewitness reports of Hitler's indescribable acts of hate and cruelty against the Jews.
		In 1942, Jewish resistance leaders asked Jan, then a 28-year-old courier for the Polish underground, to be their voice to the West--to convey to the Allies an actual eyewitness account of the Jewish genocide in Europe.
		While many others eventually would confirm Jan's horrifying accounts of the Jewish concentration camps and the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, he was one of the first--and one of very few--to take a stand against these atrocities.
	www.fas.org /sgp/congress/2001/s071701.html (796 words)

	Jan Karski
		Jan Karski, Polish resistance hero and the man who first told Western Europe and the United States about the Holocaust, was born June 1914 in the central Polish city of Lodz in a tenement house at 71 Kilinskiego St.
		Karski's 1944 book, Story of a Secret State, which detailed the Polish resistance fight, recounted his exploits, and also described the realities of the Holocaust, became a best-seller in the United States.
		Professor Jan Karski was an honorary citizen of Israel, an honorary doctor of University of Lódz, and he was given the White Eagle Order, the highest Polish distinction.
	auschwitz.dk /rescuers/id2.htm (511 words)

	Floor Statements by Congresswoman Pelosi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jan Karski, a member of the Polish underground during World War II who risked his life in an effort to stop the Holocaust.
		Professor Karski, a devout Roman Catholic, was captured and savagely tortured by the Gestapo while working as a courier in 1940.
		In 1942, Professor Karski was smuggled into the Warsaw ghetto and death camp near Belzec, and then traveled secretly to Washington, DC, where he provided President Roosevelt, other top Government officials, journalists, and religious leaders with a terrifying eyewitness account of the extermination of thousands of helpless and innocent Jews.
	www.house.gov /pelosi/karski.htm (281 words)

	Jan Karski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1942 and 1943 Karski reported to the Polish government in exile and the British and U.S. governments on the situation in Poland, especially the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Holocaust of the Jews.
		Jan Kozielewski was born on 24 June 1914
		Karski himself identified the camp as Bełżec death camp in his book published in the USA during the war, even though he knew at the time that it was not Bełżec.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jan_Karski (1294 words)

	AJC Mourns Death of Jan Karski
		"Karski modestly referred to himself as a human tape recorder, but he was, in actuality, a trumpet, heralding the harsh tones of human indifference and cruelty while at the same time personifying the indomitable spirit and inherent goodness that mankind can still possess," Mr.
		Harris continued: "Jan Karski was a diplomat, a Righteous Gentile, a messenger for the Polish underground resistance during World War II, an eyewitness to the Nazi extermination of the Jews in Poland, and since the Holocaust a devoted friend of Israel."
		The American Jewish Committee, in 1993, bestowed its highest honor on Jan Karski, and in 1999 he was the first recipient of the Eternal Light Award from the Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies, a collaboration of AJC and Saint Leo University in Saint Leo, Florida.
	www.charitywire.com /charity11/00606.html (309 words)

	Jan Karski
		It was an employee of the Stratton House.
		Karski, I was told to inform you that Szmul Zygelbojm, a member of the Polish National Council and representative of the Bund in London, committed suicide yesterday.
		Jan Karski is the pseudonym of Jan Kozielewski, an official of the pre-war Ministry of Foreign Affairs, now a professor at Georgetown University in Washington.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~afilreis/Holocaust/karski.html (6293 words)

	The Holocaust Chronicle PROLOGUE: Roots of the Holocaust, page 389
		A gentile courier for the Polish government-in-exile, Jan Karski took extraordinary risks to bring first-hand accounts of what was happening to Jews in Poland to the outside world.
		In another brave venture, Karski impersonated a guard and secretly entered a concentration or death camp.
		Karski delivered his reports to the Polish government-in-exile in London and met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
	www.holocaustchronicle.org /staticpages/389.html (424 words)

	Jan Karski
		A Karski webpage primarily featuring excerpts from Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust, the book by E. Thomas Wood and Stanislaw M. Jankowski.
		The dramatic tale of Karski's escape from Gestapo captivity-- and its harrowing consequences.
		Karski's fateful first encounter on his secret trip to the U.S. in 1943: dinner with Justice Felix Frankfurter.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /web/history/hist_persons/karski/link.shtml (227 words)

	wais:the holocaust: jan karski december 2004
		Indeed, the Messenger from Poland, was Jan Kozielewski, aka Karski.
		In your opinion, what were the factors that caused Roosevelt's administration not to act sooner and do more to save the European Jews?: Roosevelt was an American president.
		I think that Jan Karski was a great man indeed.
	wais.stanford.edu /ztopics/week120104/holocaust_041201_jankarski.htm (765 words)

	Karski
		Her collaborators for the occasion included Liz Lerman's Dance Exchange, Jan Tievsky's Glen Echo Dance Theater and the Contemporary Dancers of Alexandria.
		It was said that the only major figures of modern dance who did not attend the event were performing on stage.
		Survivors include her husband of 27 years, Jan Karski, of Bethesda.
	www.deltaphiepsilon.net /Karski.html (577 words)

	D.C.-area Poland-related Events, Feb. 1999
		Professor Karski, who holds six honorary degrees, has received the highest honors from the Republic of Poland, and, as one of the Righteous Among Nations, is the honorary citizen of the state of Israel.
		A distinguished diplomat, scholar and Professor Emeritus from Georgetown University, Jan Karski is the author of Story of a Secret State and The Great Powers and Poland, 1919-1945: From Versailles to Yalta.
		Several books have been devoted to Professor Karski, notably E. Thomas Wood's and Stanislaw M. Jankowski's "Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust" (Wiley and Sons).
	members.aol.com /Zmudzki/1999/02 (1225 words)

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