Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust (Modern Jewish History) - Softcover

Wood, E. Thomas; Jankowski, Stanislaw M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089672882X ISBN 13: 9780896728820

Verlag: Texas Tech Press,U.S., 2014

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Karski is the remarkable story of a modest man who has become a "professional hero.." . . Economically written and well-researched. --The Times Literary Supplement A book that is more than just a spy thriller: Karski's report raises anew the question of why the Allies didn't make ending the mass-murder of the Jews a war aim. --Der Spiegel

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A young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer, Jan Karski joined the Polish Underground movement in 1939. He became a courier for the Underground, crossing enemy lines to serve as a liaison between occupied Poland and the free world. In 1942, Jewish leaders asked him to carry a desperate message to Allied leaders: the news of Hitler's effort to exterminate the Jews of Europe. To be able to deliver an authentic report, Karski twice toured the Warsaw Ghetto in disguise and later volunteered to be smuggled into a camp that was part of the Nazi murder machine. Carrying searing tales of inhumanity, Karski set out to alert the world to the emerging Holocaust, meeting with top Allied officials and later President Roosevelt, to deliver his descriptions of genocide. Part spy thriller and part compelling story of moral courage against all odds, Karski is the first definitive account of perhaps the most significant warning of the impending Holocaust to reach the free world.

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• Verlag: Texas Tech Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 089672882X
• ISBN 13: 9780896728820
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 277