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Jan Karski
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March 15, 2023, 4:47 am
David Strathairn plays historic Holocaust witness Jan Karski on TV’s ‘Remember This’
In a one-man-show that aired Monday, the famous character actor tells the story of a Catholic hero who snuck into the Warsaw Ghetto to report the Nazi atrocities there to the world
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Linda Buchwald
February 26, 2016, 3:23 pm
Do the words ‘Polish death camps’ defame Poland? And if so, who’s to blame?
As Poland prepares a bill that makes calling Nazi-era death camps ‘Polish’ libelous, a look at the term’s Cold War origins, and the controversy’s impressive staying power
By
Matt Lebovic
August 30, 2015, 4:39 pm
Memorial to saviors of the Jews stirs mixed emotions in Poland
Critics say monument will misrepresent country’s largely indifferent response to plight of 3.3 million Jewish Poles during WWII
By
Vanessa Gera
June 14, 2015, 1:53 pm
Decades after Karski rang alarm, unheeded Shoah warnings brought to life
Director Slawomir Grünberg uses animation to illustrate the dramatic testimony of the Polish resistance fighter who brought reports of Jewish genocide to Allied leaders
By
Renee Ghert-Zand
October 29, 2014, 2:07 pm
Oscar-nominated actor reprises Jan Karski role in Warsaw
David Strathairn plays Polish resistance fighter who warned Allies about Nazi atrocities
By
Renee Ghert-Zand
April 27, 2014, 4:02 am
New Polish films portray competing Holocaust histories
There are two narratives in Poland today — one emphasizing collaboration with the Nazis and the other celebrating rescuers of Jews
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
April 23, 2014, 5:28 am
Holocaust whistleblower Jan Karski honored by Georgetown
University observes 100th birthday of beloved professor, a member of Polish underground who urged Roosevelt to bomb Auschwitz train tracks
By
Renee Ghert-Zand
December 14, 2013, 6:40 am
Poland to honor partisan who warned about Holocaust
2014 will be dedicated to Jan Karski, the man who informed the allies about the Holocaust and died in 2000
By
JTA
November 3, 2012, 1:44 pm
Polish gentiles increasingly embrace Jewish culture as part of their own heritage
Growing efforts to preserve and resurrect Poland’s Jewish past reflect changing attitudes to country’s anti-Semitic history
By
Katarzyna Markusz
October 11, 2012, 8:00 pm
Google Cultural Institute preserves Jewish content in first exhibits
New online connection features content on Holocaust, Israel’s War of Independence and American Jewry
June 2, 2012, 3:54 am
Obama, in letter to Polish president, says he regrets ‘Polish death camp’ gaffe
Polish foreign minister invites White House staffers for re-education
May 30, 2012, 11:50 am
Obama awards Medal of Freedom to Albright, Dylan
Israeli President Shimon Peres will receive the medal in a separate event next month
May 30, 2012, 7:48 am
White House apologizes for Obama’s ‘Polish death camp’ gaffe
Polish FM slams president’s ‘outrageous, incompetent’ Holocaust slip up at ceremony to honor anti-Nazi war hero
May 28, 2012, 9:16 pm
Jan Karski, from hell on earth to US presidential honor
The Polish Catholic was smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, after which Karski traveled to the UK and US to convince world leaders of the Jews’ annihilation. World leaders were ‘rather noncommittal’
By
Rafael Medoff
April 27, 2012, 9:02 am
Obama adds Dylan, Albright to Freedom Medal recipients
Albright learned from a reporter in 1997 that her parents had hid their Jewishness from her
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