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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. 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