SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Jan Karski

1914 - 2000

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Jan Karski (born Jan Kozielewski, 24 June 1914 – 13 July 2000) was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and to Poland's Western Allies about the situation in German-occupied Poland. He reported about the state of Poland, its many competing resistance factions, and also about Germany's destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and its operation of extermination camps on Polish soil that were murdering Jews, Poles, and others. Emigrating to the United States after the war, Karski completed a doctorate and taught for decades at Georgetown University in international relations and Polish history. He lived in Washington, D.C., until the end of his life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Karski is the 182nd most popular social activist (down from 181st in 2019), the 314th most popular biography from Poland (down from 296th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Jan Karski ranks 182 out of 840. Before him are Maria Spiridonova, Paul Watson, Chico Mendes, Paul Schäfer, Gretl Braun, and Vinoba Bhave. After him are Manuela Sáenz, Klaus Störtebeker, Carl Oberg, Kailash Satyarthi, Billy Milligan, and Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Jan Karski ranks 73. Before him are George Dantzig, William Westmoreland, Creighton Abrams, Jackie Coogan, Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, and Pierre Balmain. After him are Lilli Palmer, Yakov Zeldovich, Mario Bava, Martin Gardner, Kurt Franz, and Gyula Cseszneky. Among people deceased in 2000, Jan Karski ranks 60. Before him are Jean-Pierre Rampal, Carlo M. Cipolla, Friedrich Gulda, A. E. van Vogt, Frederick Herzberg, and Herta Bothe. After him are Claude Sautet, Noboru Takeshita, Keizō Obuchi, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, and David Tomlinson.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Karski ranks 314 out of 1,694. Before him are Werner Naumann (1909), Jan Zamoyski (1542), Sophie of Pomerania (1498), Ryszard Kaczorowski (1919), Józef Bem (1794), and Ida Haendel (1928). After him are Lilli Palmer (1914), Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845), Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), Zvi Zamir (1925), and Viktor Ullmann (1898).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

Among social activists born in Poland, Jan Karski ranks 5. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), Irena Sendler (1910), and Mordechai Anielewicz (1919). After him are Leopold Trepper (1904), Czesława Kwoka (1943), Franciszek Gajowniczek (1901), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Franceska Mann (1917), and Danuta Wałęsa (1949).

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