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Theater Why the inspiring story of a real-life Holocaust hero can’t help us solve modern political problems
The one-man show 'Remember This,' staged by Theater for a New Audience, chronicles the life of Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski
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Forverts in English Why Was Historian Who Blames Jews For Complicity with Nazis Considered For Humanitarian Prize?
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Jeffrey Gottlieb is getting fifteen minutes of fame for the second time in his life. The co-founder of the “Polish-Jewish Dialogue Committee,” Gottlieb has spoken with Jewish organizations and news outlets this week to explain why his group bestowed its “Jan Karski Humanitarian Award” on Ewa Kurek,…
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News Jan Karski’s Relatives Angry at ‘Snub’ by Polish Jewish Museum
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. At the core exhibition of the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which celebrated its official inauguration two weeks ago, there is a special corner devoted to Jan Karski, the officer of the Polish underground who was one of the first to alert the Western…
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Breaking News Polish Parliament Makes Partisan Who Warned of Holocaust Person of the Year
Poland’s parliament named 2014 the Year of Jan Karski, honoring the man who alerted the allies about the Holocaust and sought their intervention. Last week’s unanimous vote in the Sejm marked the centennial of the birth of Karski. Karski, not Jewish and born in Lodz in 1914, was a courier for the Polish underground resistance…
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The Schmooze Sigmund Rolat Receives Jan Karski Award
Recipient of the Jan Karski Award at the November 18 David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies 10th Anniversary Dinner was survivor, philanthropist, Sigmund Rolat. In his acceptance speech Rolat — who unveiled a monument dedicated to Czestochowa’s 40,000 Jewish citizens who perished in Treblinka, restored the city’s philharmonic–naming it after Bronislaw Huberman (founder of…
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The Schmooze The ‘Christian Jew’ Who Told the Truth About the Holocaust
Jan Karski with a wall-map of the Warsaw Ghetto at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Photo by E. Thomas Wood. Fiction has a long history of trying to negotiate its way into and around atrocity. So, we sometimes forget, does fact. Knowing that something unbelievable is true does not make us more able to…
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