Jan Karski was a Polish resistance fighter during World War II who later became a professor at Georgetown University. His writing delves deeply into the horrors of occupied Europe, specifically highlighting the Nazi extermination camps and the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. Karski's texts serve as a powerful testament to human suffering and courage as he sought to inform the Western Allies of these devastating events. His academic work further explored international relations and Eastern European affairs, reflecting his lifelong engagement with political and historical circumstances.
My Report to the World
During World War II, Jan Karski disguised himself as a guard to infiltrate a Nazi death camp. Travelling across occupied Europe to England, with his eye-witness report smuggled on microfilm in the handle of a razor, he became the first man to tell the Allies about the Holocaust - only to be ignored. This is his story.