JAN KARSKI In the late summer of 1942 an estimated 1.8 million Jews had been killed by the Germans and 300,000 of the 500,000 Jews jammed in the Warsaw ghetto had been deported to a small villages where Germans set up death camps. What if all of this could have been prevented? Prevented by one man by the name of Jan Karski, a liason officers of the Polish underground who infiltarted both the Warsawr Ghetto and a German concentration …showed first 75 words of 1396 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1396 total…Pola Nierenska, a dancer and choreographer who had been born in Poland. All her relatives had been killed in the Holocaust,but she survived the war in London. Sadly in 1992,Pola,then 81 years old, jumeped to her death from the balcony of their apartment in Bethesda,Md. Jan Karski died 1/31/02 of heart and kidney failure at Georgetown University Hospital. He was an important figure in trying to stop the Holocaust and I admire his bravery.