Jan Karski
Military Person
1914 – 2000
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Who was Jan Karski?
Jan Karski was a Polish World War II resistance movement fighter and later professor at Georgetown University. In 1942 and 1943 Karski reported to the Polish government in exile and the Western Allies on the situation in German-occupied Poland, especially the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the secretive German-Nazi extermination camps.
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- Born
- Apr 24, 1914
Łódź - Spouses
- Pola Nirenska
(1967 - 1992/07/25)
- Pola Nirenska
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Warsaw
- Lviv University
- Georgetown University
- Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
- Employment
- Georgetown University
- Died
- Jul 13, 2000
Washington, D.C.
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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