Jan Karski monument unveiled in New York
2007-12-05
A monument in honour of the legendary emissary of the underground Polish state Jan Karski, who first informed the Allies about the Holocaust, was unveiled in New York to mark Poland’s Independence Day. Jan Karski was sent to witness the extermination of European Jews in Nazi death camps on Polish soil and then reported on his findings to US and British leaders. Undersecretary of State in the President’s Office Ewa Juńczyk-Ziomecka took part in the ceremony. “Brought up in a patriotic Catholic Polish family, Jan Karski grew up in the city of Łódź, where Poles lived side by side with Jews, Germans and Russians.
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These were Catholics, persons of Judaic, Russian Orthodox and Protestant faith. Numerous contacts with people from different cultures shaped Karski’s sense of the homeland being a common good of all the citizens, irrespective of their origins and religion,” Ewa Juńczyk-Ziomecka said. The Karski monument designed by Kraków artist Karol Badyna stands at the corner of Madison Avenue and 37th Street, now known as the Jan Karski Corner. It incorporates a bench everyone is invited to sit on.
