Poles you should know - Jan Karski

Alex Webber - 14th January 2010

© Wikipedia Jan Karski was named one of the 'Righteous Among Nations' in 1982 Share:

‘Every government and church says, “We tried to help the Jews,” because they are ashamed, they want to keep their reputations. They didn’t help, because six million Jews perished, but those in the government, in the churches they survived. No one did enough.’

Born in Łódź in 1914, and originally named Jan Kozielewski, Jan Karski is remembered in the history books as the man who tried to stop the holocaust. Son of a local factory owner and the youngest of eight children Karski read law at the University of Lvov, from which he graduated with flying colours. Gifted with a photographic memory and a fluent command of foreign languages he soon came to the attention of the Polish diplom ...