Jan Karski
Jan Karski (24 June 1914 – 13 July 2000) was a Polish World War II resistance movement fighter and later professor at Georgetown University. In 1942 and 1943 Karski reported to the Polish government in exile and the Western Allies on the situation in German-occupied Poland, especially the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the secretive German-Nazi extermination camps.
Personal facts
![Jan Karski](/photos/jan-karski.jpg)
Alias (AKA) | Jan Kozielewski (birth name); Piasecki Kwaśniewski Znamierowski Kruszewski Kucharski and Witold (akas) |
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Birth date | June 24, 1914 |
Birth name | Jan Kozielewski |
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Date of death | July 13, 2000 |
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External resources
- http://culture.pl/en/article/photographic-memory-snapshots-of-a-spy
- http://culture.pl/en/artist/jan-karski
- http://jankarskiinstituteus.org
- http://remember.org/karski/kaudio.html
- http://wallenberg.umich.edu/karski.html
- http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute
- http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/#!exhibit:exhibitId=QR_UaCtP
- http://www.hoover.org/hila
- http://www.jankarski.net