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The story of a man who risked life and limb to expose the atrocities of the Holocaust to the world I had the feeling from the moment I saw Karski that he carried secret, invisible wounds in him...I saw he was fighting back the memories.--Elie Wiesel A significant account of personal heroism--not only dramatic as a story but also a compelling moral message regarding the human condition . . . a superb read.--Zbigniew Brzezinski NOW IN PAPER! Working for the Polish Underground, Jan Karski witnessed first hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Surviving Soviet captivity and Gestapo torture, he escaped Poland in 1942 and embarked on a heroic crusade to give Allied leaders his eye witness report of Nazi extermination of European Jews. Karski is the first definitive account of the little-known episode--one of the earliest documentations of atrocities to reach the west and perhaps the most significant warning of the genocide to come. Karskis story introduces vital new insights about the Polish Underground, and about the Allies reaction to the Holocaust. E. THOMAS WOOD (Nashville, Tennessee) is a journalist in Nashville. STANISLAW M. JANKOWSKI (Cracow, Poland) is a journalist and historian. He is a leading authority on the Polish Underground.
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Karski, Jan,--1914- , World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland--Biography, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland, Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945, Jews--Poland--Persecutions, Poland--Ethnic relations.
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1994
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D802.P6W65 1994eb
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940.53/37
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Karski, Jan,--1914- , World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland--Biography, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland, Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945, Jews--Poland--Persecutions, Poland--Ethnic relations.
Karski
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Karski
How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust
E. Thomas Wood Stanislaw* M. Jankowski
Foreword by Elie Wiesel
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This text is printed on acid-free paper.
Copyright 1994 by E. Thomas Wood and Stanislaw* M. Jankowski Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
All rights reserved. Published simultaneously in Canada.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Wood, E. Thomas. Code nameKarski / E. Thomas Wood and Stanislaw* M. Jankowski. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-471-01856-2 1. Karski, Jan, 1914- . 2. World War, 19391945Underground movementsPolandBiography. 3. Holocaust, Jewish (19391945) Poland. 4. PolandHistoryOccupation, 19391945. 5. JewsPoland Persecutions. 6. PolandEthnic relations. I. Jankowski, Stanisiaw M., 1945- . II. Title. D802. P6W65 1994 940.53'37-dc20 949435
Printed in the United States of America
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To Jan Karski and to the memory of Pola Nirenska Karski
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CONTENTS
Foreword
vii
Preface
ix
Rites of Initiation: August 1939June 1940
1. Autumn of Flight
3
2. Apprentice to the Underground
26
3. Off to the Phony War
44
Life On the Edge: June 1940september 1942
4. Sacrifice
69
5. A Routine Existence
91
6. Witness
111
Terrible Secrets: October 1942september 1943
7. Carrying the Message
135
8. In Official Circles
157
9. Defeat in Victory
181
Hearts and Minds: September 1943July 1945
10. Unmasked
205
11. Fame in Vain
223
Epilogue
Silence Vowed, Silence Broken
243
Glossary of Names
260
Sources and Notes
268
Index
309
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FOREWORD
I owe my meeting with Jan Karski to an idea that came to me in Moscow.
An explanation may be in order.
It was August of 1979. In my capacity as Chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust, I found myself in the Soviet Union at the head of an official delegation. Among the personalities to whom the government officials introduced me was the colonel who liberated Auschwitz. We exchanged impressions and memories of the last night we spent there, each in his own world separated by the front line. I was struck by the fact that the person to whom I was speaking had been the first free man to view the abyss. That was how the idea of organizing an international conference of camp liberators was born. Let them bear witness for us. Someone suggested Karski's name: Hadn't he seen, with his own eyes, the implementation of the "Final Solution"? Hadn't he, better and more than others, tried to stop it? The idea tempted me, but... where did he reside? What was he doing? Was he still alive? I wasn't the only one who believed him dead.
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