The Extraordinary Life and Witness of Jan Karski
Maciej Kozlowski speaks on the life of Jan Karski (1914–2000), a Polish diplomat in the 1930s who joined the underground at the beginning of World War II and, according to the New York Times, “infiltrated both the Warsaw Ghetto and a German concentration camp and then carried the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to a mostly disbelieving West.” Following the war he taught history at Georgetown University for 40 years. Kozlowski, who published the first-ever interview with Karski, recounts Karski’s wartime experiences. A journalist and a historian, Kozlowski is also a diplomat, having served as the chargé d’affaires at the Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C. and as Poland’s ambassador to Israel from 1999 to 2003. His talk includes several short films on Karski’s life.
Presenter(s): Maciej Kozlowski
Date: January 22, 2008
Location: Gasson Honors Library
Sponsor(s): Honors Program
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/kozlowski/
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