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Humanity's Hero
Jan Karski was a young Polish diplomat and reserve officer when war broke out in September 1939. After fighting in the defense of Poland and being taken prisoner, Karski escaped and joined the Polish resistance movement. So began his involvement in the Polish underground Home Army where he served as a courier between Poland and the Polish government in exile in the West. What Karski is most known for today is his daring mission to try and stop the Holocaust. He was smuggled
into the Warsaw Ghetto as well as into the Izbica transit camp to gather firsthand accounts about the plight of European Jews under Nazi rule. He then traveled to the West, where he met with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and President Franklin D. Roosevelt among others, presenting his report about the extermination of European Jewry and pleading for Allied action to stop the Holocaust. 2014 has been declared the Year of Jan Karski by the Polish Sejm on the centennial of his birth.