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Welcome, Wanda Urbanska to the Foundation’s Advisory Board

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Medal delegation with President Barack Obama on May 28, 2012. From the left: Andrzej Rojek, Chairman of the Board of Jan Karski Educational Foundation; Sigmund Rolat, benefactor and Holocaust survivor; Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Poland’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs; President of the United State, Barck Obama; Robert Kupiecki, then-Poland’s Ambassador to the United States; Wanda Urbanska, then-Jan Karski US Centennial Campaign Director; and Robert Billingsley, Campaign Steering Committee members. (Photo: Lawrence Jackson, White House)

Medal delegation with President Barack Obama on May 28, 2012. (...)

Ceremony of the Spirit of Jan Karski Award, 2013. From the left: Samantha Power, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, recipient of the Award, Wanda Urbanska, then-President of the Jan Karski Educational Foundation, and David Harris, then-Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee (Photo: Wojciech Kubik)

Ceremony of the Spirit of Jan Karski Award, 2013. From (...)

The Jan Karski 2014 International Conference on Memory and Responsibility, organized by Loyola University Chicago in cooperation with the Jan Karski Educational Foundation. From the left: Ewa Wierzyńska of the Polish History Museum and Jan Karski Educational Foundation Board member; Richard Durbin, U.S. Senator and Jan Karski’s former student; and Wanda Urbanska, then-President of the Jan Karski Educational Foundation (Photo: Bożena U. Zaremba)

The Jan Karski 2014 International Conference on Memory and Responsibility, (...)

Wanda Urbanska with late Senator John McCain after he accepted the nomination for the Spirit of Jan Karski Award in 2014. (Photo: Courtesy of Wanda Urbanska)

Wanda Urbanska with late Senator John McCain after he (...)

Wanda Urbanska making a presentation about Jan Karski for the Jewish Federation in Raleigh-Cary, NC, in February, 2015. (Photo: Courtesy of Wanda Urbanska)

Wanda Urbanska making a presentation about Jan Karski for the (...)

Wanda Urbanska making a presentation about Jan Karski at the West Raleigh Rotary Club in May, 2019. (Photo: Courtesy of Wanda Urbanska)

Wanda Urbanska making a presentation about Jan Karski at the (...)

Gregg Stebben, host of the Beamz.live podcast, interviews Wanda Urbanska in May, 2022. She talked about Karski’s background and how she led the campaign to obtain a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom for Karski from President Obama.

Gregg Stebben, host of the Beamz.live podcast, interviews Wanda Urbanska (...)

Wanda Urbanska, center, with the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the United States, Marek Magierowski and his wife, Anna Magierowska, at a special lunch in Cary, North Carolina, celebrating the ambassador's presentation on Poland's role in the defense of Ukraine at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2023. (Photo: Courtesy of Wanda Urbanska)

Wanda Urbanska, center, with the Ambassador of the Republic of (...)