Jan Karski: The Man Who Warned the Western Allies about the Holocaust

Israel | by Merv Islip | Volume 21, Issue 1 | January – February 2015

Jan Karski was an eyewitness of the Holocaust1 who attempted to draw the attention of the United States and Britain to the slaughter of Polish Jews early in World War Two. Born Jan Kozielewski in 1914, Karski came from a working-class Catholic family from Lodz, Poland. He commenced a career with Po...