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050 00 $aD802.P6$bW65 1994
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100 1 $aWood, E. Thomas,$d1963-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94024459
245 10 $aKarski :$bhow one man tried to stop the Holocaust /$cE. Thomas Wood and Stanislaw M. Jankowski. Foreword by Elie Wiesel.
260 $aNew York :$bWiley and Sons,$c1994.
263 $a9410
300 $axv, 316 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 268-308) and index.
520 $aAn instinctive survivor, a soldier driven by a single-minded focus on his mission, an extraordinary man in an extraordinary time, Jan Karski became a legend.
520 8 $aA young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer at the outbreak of World War II, Karski joined the Polish underground movement in 1939 after ingeniously escaping from a Soviet detention camp. Most of the Polish officers held with him were later executed. Karski became a courier for the underground crossing enemy lines to serve as liaison between occupied Poland and the free world. Captured by the Gestapo in 1940 he was savagely tortured.
520 8 $aAfraid that the Germans would extract secrets from him he slashed his wrists. But after the suicide attempt failed, he escaped from a hospital with the help of an underground commando team. His work had just begun.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aKarski, a Roman Catholic, developed a keen concern for the plight of the Jews under Nazi domination. In 1942 Jewish leaders asked him to carry a desperate message to Allied leaders: the news of Hitler's effort to exterminate the Jews of Europe. To be able to carry an authentic eyewitness report, Karski agreed to tour Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto in disguise.
520 8 $aThe suffering he saw there was only a prelude to the atrocities he witnessed when he later volunteered to be smuggled into a camp that was part of the Nazi murder machine.
520 8 $aCarrying searing tales of inhumanity, Karski reached London in late 1942 and set out to alert the world to the emerging Holocaust. He met secretly with top Allied officials, including British foreign secretary Anthony Eden, and with intellectuals like H.G. Wells and Arthur Koestler. Some reacted viscerally to his message. Others responded with disbelief or indifference. In July 1943, Karski traveled secretly to Washington, where he briefed President Roosevelt in a dramatic meeting.
520 8 $aThis fully documented account of Karski's myriad encounters discloses new information about how leaders in the West reacted to the Holocaust. Karski is the first definitive account of Jan Karski's mission, which was perhaps the most significant warning of the impending Holocaust to reach the free world. It is a compelling story of moral courage against all odds.
600 10 $aKarski, Jan,$d1914-2000.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84172408
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xUnderground movements$zPoland$vBiography.
650 0 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$zPoland.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061520
651 0 $aPoland$xHistory$yOccupation, 1939-1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104100
650 0 $aJews$xPersecutions$zPoland.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106138
651 0 $aPoland$xEthnic relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110233
700 1 $aJankowski, Stanisław M.,$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94024471
852 00 $bglx$hD802.P6$iW65 1994