Jan Karski
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Polish World War II resistance movement fighter
Why Is Jan Karski Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jan Karski was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and to Poland's Western Allies about the situation in German-occupied Poland. He reported about the state of Poland, its many competing resistance factions, and also about Germany's destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and its operation of extermination camps on Polish soil that were murdering Jews, Poles, and others.
Jan Karski's Published Works
Published Works
- Story of a secret state (1943) (34)
- The Great Powers and Poland 1919-1945: From Versailles to Yalta (1985) (15)
- WARREN F. KIMBALL. The Most Unsordid Act: Lend-Lease, 1939-1941. Pp. ix, 281. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1969. $7.50 (1970) (0)
- EDWARD J. ROZEK. Allied Wartime Di plomacy: A Pattern in Poland. Pp. xvii, 481. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1958. $6.95 (1959) (0)
- The Great Powers and Poland, 1919-1945: From Versailles to Yalta (1985) (0)
- International communism (revolt in the satellites) (1957) (0)
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