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Titel:Karski
how one man tried to stop the Holocaust
Von: E. Thomas Wood ; Stanisław M. Jankowski
Person: Wood, E. Thomas
1963-
Verfasser
aut
Jankowski, Stanisław M.
1945-
Hauptverfassende: Wood, E. Thomas 1963- (VerfasserIn), Jankowski, Stanisław M. 1945- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Wiley 1994
Notation:NQ 2360
NQ 4700
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Zusammenfassung:A young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer at the outbreak of World War II, Karski joined the Polish underground movement in 1939 after ingeniously escaping from a Soviet detention camp. Most of the Polish officers held with him were later executed. Karski became a courier for the underground crossing enemy lines to serve as liaison between occupied Poland and the free world. Captured by the Gestapo in 1940 he was savagely tortured
Afraid that the Germans would extract secrets from him he slashed his wrists. But after the suicide attempt failed, he escaped from a hospital with the help of an underground commando team. His work had just begun
Abstract:An instinctive survivor, a soldier driven by a single-minded focus on his mission, an extraordinary man in an extraordinary time, Jan Karski became a legend
Umfang:XV, 316, [8] S. Ill.
ISBN:0471018562