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Rome/JTA --- Jan Karski, a World
War II Polish resistance hero who
tried to convince Allied leaders of
the horrors of the Holocaust, died
July 13 in Washington at the age of
86.
Jews and non-Jews alike paid trib-
ute to a man whose wartime heroism
and lifelatig commitment to justice
made him a moral authority in the
fight against intolerance and anti-
semitism.
In Warsaw, Rabbi Michael
Schudrich led a prayer in his memo-
ry during Shabbat services.
"Karski was an absolutely right-
-eous man," said Stanislaw Krajewski,
a member of the board of the Union
of Polish Jewish Congregations. "His
unbelievable World War II record
made him a great moral authority in
Poland. He represented the best face
of Poland, and it was clear that his
views, such as his alertness to anti-
semitism, were against the main-
stream. There is no way to replace
him." .
Born Jan Kozielewski in 1914 in
the central Polish city of Lodz,
Karski, a Roman Catholic, was a
diplomat in pre-war Poland. After
the war broke out in 1939, he
joined the underground Home
Army.
Thanks to his courage, his photo-
graphic memory and his talent with
languages, he became a legendary
courier, sneaking through enemy
lines and occupied Europe to bring
news from the Resistance to Poland's
government in exile. He was cap-
tured and tortured by the Gestapo
in 1940, but managed to escape
with the help of an underground
commando team.
In 1942, he risked his life to
sneak two times into the Warsaw
Ghetto. Also, disguised as a Nazi
guard, he infiltrated the Izbica death
camp in eastern Poland, where he
saw Jews tortured, stabbed and
crammed into boxcars.
He managed to bring his graphic
eyewitness report of executions, mass
deportations and horrific conditions
to the West, and personally briefed
President Roosevelt and other west-
ern leaders.
His reports, however, resulted in
little concrete action from skeptical
Allied leaders.
Karski's 1944 book, Story of a
Secret State, which detailed the
Polish resistance fight, recounted his
exploits, and also described the reali-
ties of the Holocaust, became a best-
seller in the United States.
Karski refused to return to Poland
after the Communists took power
and settled in the United States,
becoming a naturalized citizen in
1954 and a professor at Georgetown
University.
The first time he spoke publicly
after the war about what he saw in
the Warsaw Ghetto and Izbica camp
was when he was interviewed in the
1980s for Claude Lanzmann's film
Shoah.
Karski returned to Poland only
after the fall of communism in
1989. Among many awards, he was
recognized as Righteous Among
Nations, and also was granted
Poland's highest civilian and military
honors.
Karski's late wife was the daughter
of an Orthodox Polish Jew and lost
all her family in the Holocaust.
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