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Posted by Wai Yee Vicky Lee on Thursday, January 26, 2017 in Archives, News.

Karski & the Lords of Humanity

Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Sarratt Cinema
2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37240

Presented by E. Thomas Wood, journalist, historian, and Karski biographer.

Poland/Russia/USA (2015) Dir: Slawomir Grunberg. Jan Karski, as a member of the Polish underground, infiltrated the Warsaw Ghetto, a Transit Camp, then carried his eyewitness reports of the atrocities to Britain and the United States to inform the Allied powers of Nazi crimes against the Jews of Europe in an effort to prevent the Holocaust. 72 min. DVD.

Presented in collaboration with the Holocaust Lecture Series and the Tennessee Holocaust Commission.