Jan Karski- 1914-2000
Ever heard of Jan Karski? Wait what?! You haven't heard of the man who singlehandedly tried to stop the Holocaust? He got the Presidental metal of freedom from Obama. And he is dead! That's the Highest Honnor in America! He was one of the first eyewitnesses of the Holocaust. He was smuggled into a ghetto and concentration camp. He saw people dying on the streets, children to weak to move, especially with his photographic memory these images haunted him for the rest of his life. He was an polish underground officer in World War II. He even published a book Story of a Secret State about the Polish underground with a long chapter on the Holocaust. He had to deliver the message "our entire people will be destroyed." The nazis captured him, knocked his teeth out, but he wouldn't reveal the name of his friends. He tried and failed to kill himself to save his friends. But his friends risked everything for him, and fifteen of them died. He met with Franklin D. Rosevelt and plead for help for the Holocaust, but no one believes him. He got a P. D. At Gorgetown University. A famous quote is "And thus I myself became a Jew. And just as my wife's entire family was wiped out in the ghettos of Poland , in its concentration camps and creatiama - so have all the Jews who were slaughtered become my family. But I am a Christian Jew... I am practicing Cathlic... My faith tells me the second origaniol sin has been committed by humanity. This sin will haunt humanity to the end of time. And I want it be so."
Rember us. Rember our heroes as brave, corages, and amazing. If it weren't for them we would still be in the sitchuation called the Holocaust. Remember our heroes as they were. If it weren't for them more than half the Jewish population in the entire world would have been wiped out. And throughout time others as well. Remember us. Yad Vashem.