Jan Karski

Jan Karski (1914-2000), lawyer and diplomat, hero of the Polish underground in the Second World War, is being memorialized recently.

Commentator Deroy Murdock was a history student of Karski's at Georgetown, and was eventually able to hear some of the story from the man himself. Murdock's essay is a good introduction to the subject.

Karski's book, Story of a Secret State, is widely available, for example at  ABE Books.          

Give a single click on the image, and you can read the text just fine.

The memoir concludes with an account of his visit to Washington, D.C. and meeting with FDR and his advisors to inform them of the nature, scope, and immediacy of the "Final Solution."  Since he could see that they, too, thought he was exaggerating, he wrote and published his memoir immediately.