The Mission That Failed: An Interview with Jan Karski

Jan Karski, proper name Jan Kozielewski, was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1914. He has lived in the United States since 1944, and is now a professor of government at Georgetown University. (Those who saw Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah will remember that during his interview Karski was so overcome with emotion that he had to leave the room to compose himself before returning to continue.) Before the war he graduated from Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov and began his career in the Polish Foreign Se...