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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Jan Karski

1914 - 2000

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Jan Karski (born Jan Kozielewski, 24 June 1914 – 13 July 2000) was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and to Poland's Western Allies about the situation in German-occupied Poland. He reported about the state of Poland, its many competing resistance factions, and also about Germany's destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and its operation of extermination camps on Polish soil that were murdering Jews, Poles, and others. Emigrating to the United States after the war, Karski completed a doctorate and taught for decades at Georgetown University in international relations and Polish history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Karski has received more than 591,070 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Jan Karski is the 165th most popular social activist (down from 146th in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from Poland (down from 267th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Jan Karski ranks 165 out of 538. Before him are Alexander Pechersky, René Just Haüy, Balthasar Gérard, Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Bukovsky, and Rigoberta Menchú. After him are Unity Mitford, Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, Maria Spiridonova, Dmitry Muratov, Campaspe, and Yiannis Ritsos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Jan Karski ranks 59. Before him are Francisco da Costa Gomes, Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, James Van Allen, Renato Dulbecco, María Félix, and Lilli Palmer. After him are Unity Mitford, Kurt Franz, Creighton Abrams, Lina Bo Bardi, Edward T. Hall, and Jean-Pierre Vernant. Among people deceased in 2000, Jan Karski ranks 50. Before him are Willard Van Orman Quine, Petar Mladenov, Friedrich Gulda, Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Herta Bothe, and Takashi Kano. After him are Loretta Young, Lolo Ferrari, A. E. van Vogt, Hirokazu Ninomiya, Lazar Koliševski, and Akira Nozawa.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Karski ranks 285 out of 1,454. Before him are Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), Moïse Kisling (1891), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Sepp Piontek (1940), and Robert Wiene (1873). After him are Sławomir Mrożek (1930), Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700), and Jean Epstein (1897).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

Among social activists born in Poland, Jan Karski ranks 6. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Irena Sendler (1910), Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), and Leopold Trepper (1904). After him are Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), and Ernestine Rose (1810).

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