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 627,135 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Jan Karski is the 180th most popular social activist (down from 165th in 2019), the 296th most popular biography from Poland (down from 285th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Jan Karski ranks 180 out of 840. Before him are Chico Mendes, Judas of Galilee, Billy Milligan, Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, Emmett Till, and Yelena Bonner. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, Leopold Trepper, Kailash Satyarthi, Huda Sha'arawi, Edward Snowden, and Abbé Pierre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Jan Karski ranks 65. Before him are Creighton Abrams, Mario Bava, Lilli Palmer, Rafael Kubelík, Kurt Franz, and Jackie Coogan. After him are Carlo Maria Giulini, Achille Compagnoni, Lina Bo Bardi, Larbi Benbarek, Jean-Pierre Vernant, and Lazar Koliševski. Among people deceased in 2000, Jan Karski ranks 49. Before him are Leonid Rogozov, A. E. van Vogt, Frederick Herzberg, Michael Smith, Saburō Sakai, and Petar Mladenov. After him are Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Yasuo Suzuki, Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Lazar Koliševski, Phạm Văn Đồng, and John Harsanyi.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Karski ranks 296 out of 1,694. Before him are Viktor Ullmann (1898), Kurt Masur (1927), Hyacinth of Poland (1185), Miguel Najdorf (1910), Mateusz Morawiecki (1968), and Stefan Czarniecki (1599). After him are Otto Mueller (1874), Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865), Sophie of Pomerania (1498), Leopold Trepper (1904), Richeza of Poland, Queen of Sweden (1116), and Jerzy Popiełuszko (1947).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

Among social activists born in Poland, Jan Karski ranks 5. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Irena Sendler (1910), Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), and Mordechai Anielewicz (1919). After him are Leopold Trepper (1904), Franciszek Gajowniczek (1901), Czesława Kwoka (1943), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), Franceska Mann (1917), and Danuta Wałęsa (1949).

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