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Karski

E. Thomas Wood,Stanislaw M. Jankowski
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Author : E. Thomas Wood,Stanislaw M. Jankowski
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0471145734

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"Karski is a story of incredible valor, a story of personal courage and uncommon determination to bring to Allied leaders the awful truth about the mass murder of the Jews of Europe. It is the story of a man who understood the poisonous effects of bigotry and hatred. His fight against Nazi oppression came to an end in 1945. His fight against anti-Semitism has never stopped." —Miles Lerman, Chairman, United States Holocaust Memorial Council Praise for Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust "Karski's is a fantastic story—and the author tells it well. This is a riveting as well as a harrowing read."—The Times (London) "His [Karski's] engrossing biography is valuable, for it tempers the widespread contention that Gentile Poland was indifferent to the plight of Jews."—Publishers Weekly "A significant account of personal heroism—not only dramatic as a story, but also a compelling moral message regarding the human condition. . . . A superb read."—Zbigniew Brzezinski "Jan Karski emerges from these pages as truly one of the 'righteous among nations.' It is the shame of history that . . . none of the leaders of the free world would heed his call for help."—Abraham Foxman, National Director, Anti-Defamation League "Karski['s] is a remarkable story . . . which the authors tell with sympathy and verve."—The Times Literary Supplement (London)

Remember This

Clark Young,Derek Goldman
Remember This Book PDF

Author : Clark Young,Derek Goldman
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781647121693

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A powerful remembrance of the lessons and legacy of Jan Karski, who risked his life to share the truth with the world--and a cautionary tale for our times. Richly illustrated with stills from the black-and-white film adaptation of the acclaimed stage play, Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski tells the story of World War II hero, Holocaust witness, and Georgetown University professor Jan Karski. A messenger of truth, Karski risked his life to carry his harrowing reports of the Holocaust from war-torn Poland to the Allied nations and, ultimately, the Oval Office, only to be ignored and disbelieved. Despite the West’s unwillingness to act, Karski continued to tell others about the atrocities he saw, and, after a period of silence, would do so for the remainder of his life. This play carries forward his legacy of bearing witness so that future generations might be inspired to follow his example and “shake the conscience of the world.” Accompanying the text of the stage play in this volume are essays and conversations from leading diplomats, thinkers, artists, and writers who reckon with Karski’s legacy, including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat, award-winning author Aminatta Forna, best-selling author Azar Nafisi, President Emeritus of Georgetown Leo J. O’Donovan, SJ, Ambassador Samantha Power, Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider, historian Timothy Snyder, Academy AwardTM nominated actor David Strathairn, and best-selling author Deborah Tannen.

Story of a Secret State

Jan Karski
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Author : Jan Karski
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781589019836

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Jan Karski’s Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first accounts of the systematic slaughter of the Jews by the German Nazis, this volume is a remarkable testimony of one man’s courage and a nation’s struggle for resistance against overwhelming oppression. Karski was a brilliant young diplomat when war broke out in 1939 with Hitler’s invasion of Poland. Taken prisoner by the Soviet Red Army, which had simultaneously invaded from the East, Karski narrowly escaped the subsequent Katyn Forest Massacre. He became a member of the Polish Underground, the most significant resistance movement in occupied Europe, acting as a liaison and courier between the Underground and the Polish government-in-exile. He was twice smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto, and entered the Nazi’s Izbica transit camp disguised as a guard, witnessing first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Karski’s courage and testimony, conveyed in a breathtaking manner in Story of a Secret State, offer the narrative of one of the world’s greatest eyewitnesses and an inspiration for all of humanity, emboldening each of us to rise to the challenge of standing up against evil and for human rights. This definitive edition—which includes a foreword by Madeleine Albright, a biographical essay by Yale historian Timothy Snyder, an afterword by Zbigniew Brzezinski, previously unpublished photos, notes, further reading, and a glossary—is an apt legacy for this hero of conscience during the most fraught and fragile moment in modern history.

Karski's Mission

Rafael Medoff
Karski s Mission Book PDF

Author : Rafael Medoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692537309

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Karski's Mission: To Stop the Holocaust is a comic book based on the true story of Jan Karski (1914-2000), a Polish Catholic and member of the Polish Underground during World War II, who risked his life to carry his eyewitness account to Allied leaders of the ongoing slaughter of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland. Karski was born in a multicultural city of Lodz, Poland, and was educated to be a diplomat, but WWII brought his ambitions to a halt. He became a courier of the Polish Underground and during one of his perilous missions, he was captured by Gestapo and tortured. Afraid that he might give away the secrets, he tried to take his life, but was revived and then rescued by the Polish Underground. He continued his work and, in 1941, Karski went on what would become his most famous mission to witness the atrocities against the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. In disguise, he twice infiltrated Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto and visited a transit camp to witness the horrors. Drawing on his photographic memory, he delivered his eyewitness account to western leaders, including British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden and President Franklin Roosevelt. After the war, Karski could not return to communist Poland. He earned his Ph.D. and became professor at Georgetown University, where he served as a distinguished professor in the School of Foreign Service for forty years. A citizen of three nations - a Pole by birth, a naturalized American and an honorary citizen of Israel - Jan Karski never wavered from his commitment to speak out on behalf of oppressed people everywhere to prevent the horrors he had witnessed from repeating themselves. The comic book was written with historic precision by Dr. Rafael Medoff, founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of 15 books about the Holocaust and Jewish history, and illustrated with bold expression by Dean Motter, artist, writer and designer, best known for the comic book sensation, Mister X. Published by Jan Karski Educational Foundation.

The Great Powers and Poland

Jan Karski
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Author : Jan Karski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442226654

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This definitive study provides a comprehensive diplomatic history of Poland during the most seminal period in its existence, when its destiny lay in the hands of France, Great Britain, and the United States. Although sovereign in principle, Poland was little more than an object of the Great Powers’ politics and rapidly changing relationships from the end of WWI to the end of WWII. Focusing on the shifting policies of the Great Powers toward Poland from the Treaty of Versailles to Yalta, the book ends with Poland’s tragic abandonment by the West into the hands of the Soviet Union. Enriched by unique anecdotal and archival material, this book will be essential reading for all those seeking to understand Poland’s role in twentieth-century history.

Messengers of Disaster

Annette Becker
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Author : Annette Becker
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299333201

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Leading up to World War II, two Polish men witnessed the targeted extermination of Jews under Adolf Hitler and the German Reich before the reality of the Holocaust was widely known. Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who coined the term "genocide," and Jan Karski, a Catholic member of the Polish resistance, independently shared this knowledge with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Having heard false rumors of wartime atrocities before, the leaders met the messengers with disbelief and inaction, leading to the eventual murder of more than six million people. Messengers of Disaster draws upon little-known texts from an array of archives, including the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva and the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen. Carrying the knowledge of disaster took a toll on Lemkin and Karski, but their work prepared the way for the United Nations to unanimously adopt the first human rights convention in 1948 and influenced the language we use to talk about genocide today. Annette Becker's detailed study of these two important figures illuminates how distortions of fact can lead people to deny knowledge of what is happening in front of their own eyes.

The Messenger

Yannick Haenel
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Author : Yannick Haenel
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781619020481

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Jan Karski, a young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer, joined the Polish underground movement after escaping from a Soviet detention camp in 1939. He served as a courier for the underground, ferrying messages between occupied Poland and the exiled Polish leaders, before he was captured and brutally tortured by the Gestapo. Escaping from the Germans, Jan Karski was charged with the mission of his lifetime: to convey a message to the Allies about Hitler's program to exterminate the Jews of Europe. He visited Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto so that he could relate the truth about inhuman conditions first hand when he met, soon after, with leaders and top officials in London and President Roosevelt in Washington. He had the ears of the decision–makers, yet nothing was done to prevent the ultimate fate of millions of Jews. Published to immense acclaim in France, The Messenger is a compelling and tragic story. An extraordinary novelized biography about a man's moral courage and our collective humanity, with parallels to Thomas Keneally's Schindler's Ark and WG Sebald's Austerliz.

The Warsaw Ghetto 1940-1945

Ruta Sakowska
The Warsaw Ghetto 1940 1945 Book PDF

Author : Ruta Sakowska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : NWU:35556032921173

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The Warsaw Ghetto 1940-1945 by Ruta Sakowska Pdf

Pp. 7-25 contain an essay on the history of the Warsaw ghetto. Focuses on the establishment of the ghetto, the mutual aid of ghetto inmates, Ringelblum's archive, the development of the idea of armed resistance, the formation and composition of the Jewish Fighting Organization, and the uprising. Pp. 26-93 contain photographs.

Through the Ruins of My Heart

Jean Bochan
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Author : Jean Bochan
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781412057530

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Through the Ruins of My Heart by Jean Bochan Pdf

This is the true story of personal triumph that is also Poland's history. The resistance fighters who died, the Polish soldiers who fought on all fronts...I try to honor in my simple way.

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

Jan Karski
Story of a Secret State My Report to the World Book PDF

Author : Jan Karski
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141968445

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'Stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II. If you wish to read about a man more courageous and honourable than Jan Karski, I would have no idea who to recommend' Alan Furst It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoys a life of parties and pleasure. Then war breaks out and his familiar world is destroyed. Now he must live under a new identity, in the resistance. And, in a secret mission that could change the course of the war, he must risk his own life to try and save those of millions. 'Insistently asks the question: What would you do? Would you fight, or acquiesce, or collaborate? ... Karski was deeply patriotic and ludicrously brave ... an astonishing testament of survival' Ben Macintyre 'Karski's adventures are worthy of the wildest spy thriller' Daily Telegraph 'This eye-witness testimony is imbued with a passion that subsequent memoirs can rarely match' Financial Times 'Deeply moving' Daily Mail 'Reads like the screenplay to an incredibly exciting war movie - but it is all true' Andrew Roberts

Auschwitz, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust

Michael Fleming
Auschwitz the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust Book PDF

Author : Michael Fleming
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107062795

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Auschwitz, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust by Michael Fleming Pdf

An important contribution to the ongoing debate about what the Allies knew about the concentration camps during the Second World War.

International Law and International Politics

Alexander Orakhelashvili
International Law and International Politics Book PDF

Author : Alexander Orakhelashvili
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781839106446

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International Law and International Politics by Alexander Orakhelashvili Pdf

This illuminating book explores a multitude of areas in which law and politics intersect on the international plane, providing a comprehensive analysis of the foundations on which both international law and politics rest. The book examines both disciplines’ mutual interaction in more specific areas such as public authority, global space, and peace.

The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945

Joshua D. Zimmerman
The Polish Underground and the Jews 1939 1945 Book PDF

Author : Joshua D. Zimmerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107014268

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The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 by Joshua D. Zimmerman Pdf

Zimmerman examines the attitude and behavior of the Polish Underground towards the Jews during the Holocaust.

Final Solution

David Cesarani
Final Solution Book PDF

Author : David Cesarani
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250037961

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Final Solution by David Cesarani Pdf

David Cesarani’s Final Solution is a magisterial work of history that chronicles the fate of Europe’s Jews. Based on decades of scholarship, documentation newly available from the opening of Soviet archives, declassification of Western intelligence service records, as well as diaries and reports written in the camps, Cesarani provides a sweeping reappraisal that challenges accepted explanations for the anti-Jewish politics of Nazi Germany and the inevitability of the “final solution.” The persecution of the Jews, as Cesarani sees it, was not always the Nazis’ central preoccupation, nor was it inevitable. He shows how, in German-occupied countries, it unfolded erratically, often due to local initiatives. For Cesarani, war was critical to the Jewish fate. Military failure denied the Germans opportunities to expel Jews into a distant territory and created a crisis of resources that led to the starvation of the ghettos and intensified anti-Jewish measures. Looking at the historical record, he disputes the iconic role of railways and deportation trains. From prisoner diaries, he exposes the extent of sexual violence and abuse of Jewish women and follows the journey of some Jewish prisoners to displaced persons camps. David Cesarani’s Final Solution is the new standard chronicle of the fate of a heroic people caught in the hell that was Hitler’s Germany.

We Are the Weather

Jonathan Safran Foer
We Are the Weather Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Safran Foer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780735233089

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We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer re-evaluated his meat-based diet--and his conscience--in his powerful memoir and investigative report, Eating Animals. Now, he offers a mind-bending and potentially world-changing call to action on climate change. Most books about the environmental crisis are densely academic, depressingly doom-laden, and crammed with impersonal statistics. We Are the Weather is different--accessible, immediate, and with a single clear solution that individual readers can put into practice straight away. A significant proportion of global carbon emissions come from farming meat. Giving up meat is incredibly hard and nobody is perfect--but just cutting back is much easier and still has a huge positive effect on the environment. Just changing our dinners--cutting out meat for one meal per day--is enough to change the world. With his distinctive wit, insight, and humanity, Foer frames this essential debate as no one else could, bringing it to vivid and urgent life.