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Jan Karski (born Jan Kozielewski, 24 June 1914 [a] – 13 July 2000) was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and to Poland's Western Allies about the situation in German-occupied Poland.
Jul 15, 2000 · Mr. Karski, a retired professor of history at Georgetown University, was 86 years old. He died of heart and kidney ailments at Georgetown University Hospital, the university said.
Jul 22, 2021 · Jan Karski died in Washington, DC, in July 2000. Last Edited: Jul 22, 2021 Author(s): United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Before the outbreak of World War II on September 1, 1939, Jan Karski was a Polish reserve officer and a junior diplomat with large ambitions and a bright future. On September 17, 1939, Soviet forces invaded his country from the east, and Karski’s life was sent careening in a new direction.
Jan Karski was born on the 24th of June, 1914, and died on the 13th of July, 2000, in Washington, D.C. The secret emissary of the Polish underground state who informed western leaders about the extermination of Jews which took place on Polish territories.
In 1992, she committed suicide, by jumping from their apartment's balcony, and Jan Karski died on the 15th July 2000, aged eighty-six, from heart and kidney ailments at Georgetown University Hospital.
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Jul 15, 2000 · July 15, 2000. Jan Karski, 86, a courier for the Polish underground during World War II who escaped from the Soviets, was tortured by the Nazis and survived to bring one of the first accounts...
