Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski. A Holocaust Eyewitness Who Tried to Stop It.
FDR knew. In 1943, Jan Karski told President Roosevelt firsthand about the Holocaust, after Karski, a Polish diplomat turned Resistance fighter had been smuggled into both the Warsaw Ghetto and the Belzec extermination camp in order to serve as an eyewitness to the atrocities. He traveled both to London and Washington to report his findings. In...