A new United Nations exhibit opened today that features Jan Karski and his mission, as part of the UN's commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Events.
Her Excellency Beata Stelmach, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, declared to a sell-out audience at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs: “The word ‘Poland’ has become synonymous with success.”
Georgetown University Press is bringing out a new edition of Karski's wartime book Story of a Secret State this spring, and you can order at a discount.
The Community College of Baltimore County recently hosted a reception for Maryland Holocaust educators that highlighted the legacy of Dr. Jan Karski.
The Jan Karski Educational Foundation grew out of the successful Jan Karski US Centennial Campaign which, on May 29, 2012, reached its goal of obtaining a Presidential Medal of Freedom for the late Jan Karski. On that date, the posthumous award was conferred on the Polish Underground hero by President Obama at a White House ceremony.
Facing History and Ourselves, partnering with the Jan Karski Educational Foundation and the Polish Consulate in New York, offered a full day, free-of-charge workshop on Jan Karski and the Resistance in Poland on October 25. More than 45 educators and community activists attended last Thursday to learn about Karski while enjoying Polish food and hospitality in the elegant, ornate Consulate.
Google has begun an online Cultural Institute, a digital archive of landmark 20th-century events and people, in cooperation with 17 museums and institutes from around the world.
On September 26, 2012, several people who had been instrumental in obtaining the Presidential Medal of Freedom for the late Jan Karski were awarded the Knight's Cross from Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski.
