Like Elie Weisels "night" This is the story of a man with compassion during the Holocaust. There are a couple spelling mistakes
Title: Like Elie Weisels "night" This is the story of a man with compassion during the Holocaust. There are a couple spelling mistakes
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Details: Words: 1396 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Like Elie Weisels "night" This is the story of a man with compassion during the Holocaust. There are a couple spelling mistakes
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1396 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
JAN KARSKI
In the late summer of 1942 an estimated 1.8 million Jews had been killed by
the Germans and 300,000 of the 500,000 Jews jammed in the Warsaw ghetto had
been deported to a small villages where Germans set up death camps. What if all of
this could have been prevented? Prevented by one man by the name of Jan Karski,
a liason officers of the Polish underground who infiltarted both the Warsawr Ghetto
and a German concentration …showed first 75 words of 1396 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1396 total…Pola Nierenska, a dancer and choreographer who had
been born in Poland. All her relatives had been killed in the Holocaust,but she
survived the war in London. Sadly in 1992,Pola,then 81 years old, jumeped to her
death from the balcony of their apartment in Bethesda,Md.
Jan Karski died 1/31/02 of heart and kidney failure at Georgetown University
Hospital. He was an important figure in trying to stop the Holocaust and I admire his
bravery.
