The March 8, 1999 edition of NEWSWEEK bring the first installment of NEWSWEEK's "Voices of Century" - oral histories that let the people who lived through dramatic days of this bllody cetury tell their stories in their own words. The 38 page report devotes one page to the story told by Jan Karski, the "Courier from Warsaw". "Warsaw 1942. Desperate to tell the Allies what was happening inside the Nazi-occupied Poland, in Summer of 1942 the government-in-exile sent Jan Karski,28, a courier from underground Resistance, to London and to Washington. Karski was told to provide the Western powers with an assesment of the German military machine and to alert the world to the destruction of the Jews. He did so. But few believed him.", writes NEWSWEEK. Jan Karski tells the NEWSWEEK readers what he has seen in Warsaw ghetto and on Umschalgplatz there, and what he reported to British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in November 1942, who refused to believe him. Karski arrived in Washington D.C. in June of 1943 and met the US Supreme Court Justice Felix Franfurter, whose reaction to Karski's report was "Mr. Karski, (...) I must say that I'm unable to believe you". Karski then describes his meeting with the President F.D. Roosevelt on July 28, 1943, and Roosevelt's reaction. Check it out. M. Sawicki ===================================== Mikolaj Sawicki, Ph.D. Professor of Physics Department of Physical Science John A. Logan College Carterville, IL 62918 Work:(618) 457-7676 # 8292 Fax: (618) 985-4654 Home:(618) 457-5576 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://instuction.jal.cc.il.us/wcb/schools/JAL/phs/msawicki/msawicki.html
