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Reluctant Hero
Accepts U-M Award

NOAM M.M. NEUSNER

Staff Writer

an Karski resents be-
ing called a hero. He
speaks of himself in
humble terms, referring to
his World War II actions as
the work of a glorified
mailman.
Nonetheless, Mr. Karski
last week received the Uni-
versity of Michigan's Raoul
Wallenberg Medal for his
wartime actions. The Polish
Catholic was cited for his
efforts to tell Allied govern-
ments during the war about
Nazi efforts to destroy
Europe's Jews.
Mr. Karski was an
eyewitness to the destruc-
tion, having been smuggled
into the Warsaw Ghetto and
Balzac concentration camp
by Polish and Jewish
resistance forces.
U-M President James J.
Duderstadt said Mr. Kar-
ski's "message is timeless,
his honor is compelling."
Receiving a standing ova-
tion from the audience, Mr.
Karski waved away the
adulation, stressing that
"hundreds of survivors
speak better than I do."
But his story is unlike any
other. Mr. Karski was 25
when Hitler's forces swept
through his native Poland.
Between 1939 and 1943, he
served as a courier for the
Polish resistance, passing
messages from the govern-
ment-in-exile to the
underground forces.
During two of these mis-
sions, he was captured by
both the Nazis and Soviets.
He was tortured by the
Nazis and even attempted
suicide in order to protect
resistance secrets.
He was rescued, however,
and was sent to meet Allied
leaders to bear witness to
the atrocities in Poland.
He spoke directly to Presi-
dent Franklin Roosevelt, Sir
Anthony Eden and Supreme
Court Justice Felix
Frankfurter. He described
their reactions to his infor-
mation as "sympathetic,"
but their reprise was always
the same: "There is nothing
we can do."
Disillusioned by the Allies'
inability — and refusal — to
act, Mr. Karski withdrew
from public life, choosing a
post-war career in academia.
At Georgetown University's
School of Foreign Service, he
taught political science for
35 years.
It was Elie Wiesel who

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Jan Karski:
The mailman.

drew Mr. Karski from his si-
lence in 1981 to speak to a
conference of war liberators.
From that moment, Mr.
Karski has been asked to
speak and write about his
wartime actions.
Israel honored him with a
tree that bears his name in
the Garden of the Righteous
Gentiles at Yad Vashem in
Jerusalem.
In an interview prior to the
Wallenberg ceremony, Mr.
Karski had an opportunity

Mr. Karski
described to
Justice Frankfurter
the horrors of the
concentration
camps. He replied:
"Mr. Karski, a man
like me talking to
a man like you
must be frank: I
am unable to
believe you."

to reflect on his actions and
honors.
"During the war, I was a
messenger. The missions
were important, but I was
not," he said. The 77-year-
old retired professor stands
slightly stooped over, and
speaks slowly with a heavily
accented voice. The intensity
of his ice blue eyes occa-
sionally undermines his
modesty.
"People who write about
me make me out to be a
leader, which I was not," he
says. He admits that after
meeting President
Roosevelt, who assured him
that America would fight for
Poland's freedom, he felt
like he had accomplished