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| University honors Poland's most revered World War II resistance fighter. |
| 2009-12-13 |
| Tel Aviv University paid tribute Thursday to Poland's most revered World War II resistance fighter, Jan Karski, by unveiling a bench with a sculpture of the man who first reported the horrors of the Holocaust to the West and is considered among the righteous gentiles. "This is only the third such monument to him outside of Poland," Agnieszka Magdziak-Miszewska, Poland's Ambassador to Israel, told The Jerusalem Post, adding that apart from one in Poland, two others are located in the US. She said the Tel Aviv University monument only served to strengthen ties between Israel and Poland, which in recent years have been working hard to come to terms with its role in the Holocaust. Karski, who in the years following the war was made an honorary citizen of Israel, became part of the Polish resistance against the Nazi-appointed government in Warsaw. Sent to uncover information on the regime and to assist partisans, Karski also ventured into the Warsaw Ghetto twice in 1942 and was smuggled into the Belzec concentration camp to witness the final solution. I suppose we are beyond the day an American University would be found honoring such a man as Karski. More at the link. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Righteous Gentile...in other words, they still would have felt free to screw him in a business deal. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-12-13 15:03 |