The in-person interviews took place at the two high-rise apartments he owned, in succession, in Friendship Heights, just northwest of the D.C. line in Maryland. The encounters took years off my life. I could not wish otherwise, then or now. Throughout the time I was meeting with him about the prospective biography, Karski chain-smoked filterless […]
[In book you mention brothers: Adam, second brother to whom you were not close. Stephen, third brother, had son involved in black market and thus was dangerous. Accurate? You give Marian's name and age.] Jan Karski: “First, I don’t remember what I wrote. I didn’t have any brother by the name of Adam. I did […]
[On responding to Pro-Soviet Brits by telling of his own experience in a Soviet POW Camp] "No, I didn't. I spent in the Soviet Union no more than five or six weeks, and as a matter of fact at that time I never was telling that I was persecuted by them. On the contrary: We […]
[On another Goering encounter] Jan Karski: "This must have been 1934 or 1935. At that time, Polish-German relations very good. Exchange of students. I was in the group of Polish students who went to Germany on the Parteitag– every year there was Parteitag which means 'day of the Nazi party.' Tremendous hullabaloo. Tremendous hall, I […]
Jan Karski: "At Jan Kazimierz University in Lwow, I enrolled after high school in 1931. Beginning with the second year, I studied in two faculties: Law and diplomatic studies, and got two M.A.s. Diplomatic sciences in 1935, my last year of my studies, the director and professors organized tremendous affair, to which were invited all […]
“I would like to be the youngest Pole to sail round the globe on my own. It is also my desire to make the general public interested in the problems of the youngest generation and to combine a sporting feat with charity,” declares Natasza Caban who set off on a solitary round-the-world voyage towards the …
We discuss politics, culture and freedom of the press in Poland and in the United States with David E. McCraw, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, The New York Times. - You spent the last couple of days in Poland visiting two of our biggest and most important cities: Warsaw and Krakow. You know a …
