In 1939, Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoyed a life of parties and pleasure.
He met with President Roosevelt in 1943 and pleaded for Allied intervention
Roosevelt then es.
Karski became a liaison officer of the Polish underground and POW of the Red Army who eventually infiltrated both the Warsaw Ghetto and a German resettlement camp, carrying the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to a mostly disbelieving West.
But when war broke out his familiar World was destroyed.
In 1939, Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoyed a life of parties and pleasure