Jan Karski Essay

Brenden Sampson

Ms. Bauer

English Language Arts Period 1

15 March 2023

Jan Karski

If it was not for Jan Karski, the world may, have not known what the Nazis were doing to Jews. January 30th, 1933, the holocaust started. Nazis and there allies had more then 44,000 death camps and ghettos. They were torturing and killing Jews. Just in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, 265,000 Jews were sent to death camps, and 35,000 Jews died in the ghetto. Jan Karski was a Polish underground courier who visited the Warsaw Ghetto and told Westren Allies about what the Nazis were doing to Jews.

Jan Karski had a rough start to the war. Jan Karski was born in a Roman Catholic family in 1914. Karski completed law school before the war. When the war began in 1939, Karski joined the Polish Army. At the end of September 1939, Karski was taken prisoner by the Soviets. In November, he was exchanged into German custody and was held in a POV camp, but he escaped. After he escaped, he went to Warsaw, Poland and joined the Polish underground resistance movement because, “Karski was known to have expiontal knowledge of geography and

The first person he told was the Polish Government. After that, in July 1943, Karski went to Washington D.C.. He Gave evidence and reported what he saw to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president at the time. Karski wanted to save the Jews, but Franklin told Karsi that he wanted to go after their military first. Karski went back to Poland but returned to the U.S In late February 1944. Karski Wrote newspaper articles, talked on the radio, and much more. After the war Karski joined the facility of Georgetown University in 1949 and earned his PHD in 1952. He then retired in 1984 with a rank of full professor. For the rest of his life he continued sharing his story. Karski recived multiple rewards. Karski sadly passed away at the age of, 86 in Washington D.C. in July of