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Articles about Karski:

The Guardian (London): http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2000/jul/15/guardianobituaries1
New York Times July 15th 2000, By Michael T. Kaufman
Jan Karski, A Man who Soldiered for Human Rights by M. Szporer: http://www.sprawiedliwi.org.pl/download/karski.pdf
The Washington Times, by Deroy Murdock (a former Karski student): http://www.jankarski.org/pliki_user/File/Obituary_The_Washington_Times_Murdock_27_08_2000.pdf
Article about the Jan Karski Corner and statue in New York City: http://newyorkcitystatues.com/jan-karski/
Article about the Jan Karski statue: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/12/2007-11-12_statue_salutes_polish_man_who_warned_fdr.html
Article about the Jan Karski Corner: www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/04/17/2009-04-17_street_named_for_courage.html
Long downloadable article/novella, The Emissary, by Maciej Kozlowski: www.sprawiedliwi.org.pl/download/karski.pdf
Radio France Internationale / RFI article about the new Karski play, July 16, 2011: http://www.english.rfi.fr/visiting-france/20110716-man-who-tried-stop-holocaust
Animated film about Karski's mission, Messenger from Hell: http://dep.disney.go.com/theyspokeout/#movie=5
Video about Karski's mission, including verbage from Karski, produced by the AJC: http://www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b.5924565/k.99FA/Video_Jan_Karski.htm
Jewish Chronicals Online: http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/48808/poles-finally-learn-about-their-holocaust-whistleblower
The British Foreign Secretary and the UK Envoy for Post Holocaust Issues mention Karski in a web posting about Holocaust Memorial Day: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?view=News&id=721873882

Articles about Karski Winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012):

White House press release: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/23/president-obama-announces-jan-karski-recipient-presidential-medal-freedo
Polish Embassy announcement: http://www.polandembassy.org/
Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement: http://www.msz.gov.pl/MFA,statement,on,announcement,to,award,the,U.S.,Presidential,Medal,of,Freedom,to,Jan,Karski,51646.htm
AJC press release: http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=849241&ct=11721373 and David Harris's audio blog: http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=6096395&ct=11735777&notoc=1
Newsroom America story: http://www.newsroomamerica.com/story/237947.html
CNN story: http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/23/obama-to-award-medal-of-freedom-to-holocaust-resistance-figure/
RTT News story: http://www.rttnews.com/1865692/obama-to-award-medal-of-freedom-to-polish-resistance-hero.aspx?type=gn&Node=B1
Times of Israel article: http://www.timesofisrael.com/obama-utters-never-again-in-reference-to-syria-and-iran/
Europe Online article: http://en.europeonline-magazine.eu/holocaust-witness-karski-to-get-presidential-medal-of-freedomeds-epa-photos_205492.html
Yahoo News: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-visits-holocaust-museum-unveils-syria-iran-sanctions-172140800.html
Voz Iz Neilas? Orthodox Jewish News: http://www.vosizneias.com/105072/2012/04/23/washignton-obama-announces-holocaust-rescuer-as-a-recipient-of-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom
Poland.us website: http://www.poland.us/strona,20,10818,0,dr-jan-karski-to-receive-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom.html
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/04/23/3093621/jan-karski-to-receive-presidential-medal-of-freedom
Georgetown University press release: http://www.georgetown.edu/news/jan-karski-presidential-medal-of-freedom.html
Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120423/us-obama-human-rights/
Rep. Marcy Kaptur's website (Rep. Kaptur was key to getting the Medal): http://kaptur.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3068&Itemid=300243
ABC News (also includes other 2012 Medal winners): http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/bob-dylan-john-glenn-toni-morrison-receive-presidential/story?id=16223026
New York Times (all medal winners): http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/presidential-medals-to-dylan-john-glenn-and-11-others/

Books by Karski:

Amazon.com - Story of a Secret State - link
Amazon.com - The Great Powers and Poland: 1919-1945: From Versailles to Yalta - http://www.amazon.com/Great-Powers-Poland-1919-1945-Versailles/dp/0819143995
Audible.com.UK (Amazon subsidiary) - The Story of a Secret State audio book, read by Janusz Guttner - http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B0057QKGVU&qid=1309873527&sr=1-1

Book about Karski:

Major English-language biography by E. Thomas Wood and Stanislaw M. Jankowski, "Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust" available on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Karski-How-Tried-Stop-Holocaust/dp/0471145734/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323050099&sr=1-5

Reviews of Karski's books, biographies, plays and films:

From London's Daily Mail newspaper: link
From London's Telegraph newspaper: link
From Foreign Affairs: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/39813/zbigniew-brzezinski/the-great-powers-and-poland-1919-1945-from-versailles-to-yalta
From The Jewish Chronicle Online: http://www.thejc.com/arts/books/51406/the-story-of-a-secret-state
From the Kosciuszko Foundation website, notice of a play about Karski performed in 2010: http://www.thekf.org/events/past/karski/

Educational Materials about Jan Karski:

The winning curriculum in a contest for the best lesson plan about Karski is from teacher Monika Karczmarczyk, from the Polish Auxiliary School in Brooklyn, who received the first prize:

Speeches by Karski:

Karski's acceptance speech after receiving the Pius XI Award, Nov. 28, 1990: www.jankarski.net/pliki_user/File/Karski_Speech_PiusXIAward_28_11_1990(1).pdf
Karski's speech after receiving honorary citizenship from the State of Israel, Dec. 5, 1994: www.jankarski.net/pliki_user/File/Karski_Speech_HonoraryCitizenship_ofIsrael_12_05_1994(1).pdf

Interviews with Karski:

1995 Karski interview for the Shoah documentary (complete interview shown; Shoah only used a portion of it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39iTbL2idhQ&playnext=1&list=PL4AFD2747FCB45398
1996 Karski Interview by Karski biographer Thomas Wood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Z2vrmL5eo&feature=player_detailpage
A 2010 film by Claude Lanzmann, "The Karski Report" - consisting of film of Karski that was not used for "Shoah" - has been reviewed by:
- The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/film/the_karski_report_lanzmann
- March 19, 2012 article in The New Yorker magazine about Claude Lanzmann; "The Karski Report" is mentioned toward the end of the article: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/03/19/120319crbo_books_brody?currentPage=all
- Slant magazine: http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2011/02/film-comment-selects-2011-the-karski-report/
- The Film Society of Lincoln Center: http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-karski-report

Interviews about or related to Karski:

2008 Event organized by The Polish American Awareness Foundation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lq1-T2RfTw
2009 Interview with Yannick Haenel, who has written a book about Karski in French; interview is in French but there is a good voiceover in English: http://www.france24.com/en/20091121-interview-yannick-haenel-writer
2010 Pola Nirenska Award made, originally established by Jan Karski in memory of his wife (see bottom of article): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/16/AR2010091607300.html
2011 Legends of Georgetown University event honoring Karski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImClJhiLz8c Note: This is part 1, but the other 7 parts are shown on YouTube on the same page as this one.)
2011 Interview with Ewa Wierzyńska of the Polish History Museum, who knew Karski (in English with Italian subtitles): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOpkYo5jI5s

Other websites with material about Jan Karski and the WWII era in Poland:

www.JanKarski.org (We suggest that you open this site with the Google Chrome bowser and then use Google Translate to translate into English.)
www.shabaton.kielce.eu
instytut-karskiego.org/#strony/inne/jan-karski/ (We suggest that you open this site with the Google Chrome bowser and then use Google Translate to translate into English.)
http://www.wallenberg.umich.edu/karski.html University of Michigan's Wallenberg medal program (Jan Karski was their 1991 recipient)
Wikipedia page about Karski: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Karski
Announcement of an honorary degree given to Karski, by Hebrew Union College in 1999: http://huc.edu/news/ord99.html
"Inferno of Choices: Poles and the Holocaust," edited by Sebastian Rejak and Elzbieta Frister - a large compilation of primary source material from the WWII era, with many items published for the first time in English: http://polishin.joomla-israel.com/images/stories/publications/INFERNO_OF_CHOICES_POLES_AND_THE_HOLOCAUST.pdf
http://www.aquilapolonica.com Informational link to the Aquila Polonica publishing company, which has published many books about the Polish experience in WWII

Gallery: Resources

Jan Karski's personal memorabilia, courtesy of the Museum of the City of Lodz, Poland ; most photos courtesy of Jane Robbins

US Congressional Record proclamation honoring Karski 1997	Certificate of Congressional Recognition 1966	Jewish Federation Award, 1983	Quad Cities Award
Letter from US President Roosevelt about Karski's book	Letter to Karski from US President Clinton	Key to the city of Lodz presented to Jan Karski 2000	Portrait of Karski in oil 1999
Portrait of Karski's wife Pola Nirenska	Karski's desk, now in the Museum of the City of Lodz