Jan Karski
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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
Jan Karski photo portrait
Jan Kozielewski's handwritten pre-WWII document showing birthdate from Lviv archives
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.
Shoah (film)
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Shoah is a 1985 French documentary film about the Holocaust, directed by Claude Lanzmann. Over nine hours long and eleven years in the making, the film presents Lanzmann's interviews with survivors, w
Jan Karski
…until 1981 when he was invited as a speaker to a conference on the liberation of the camps. Karski was featured in Claude Lanzmann's nine-hour film Shoah (1985), about the Holocaust, based on oral interviews with survivors, a historian, witnesses who lived near death camps, and several German officials…
US theatrical release poster
Claude Lanzmann, 2011