Jan Karski about his meeting with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1943
Vložit
- čas přidán 22. 03. 2012
- Created by Claude Lanzmann during the filming of SHOAH
Used by permission of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem
Why didn’t Karski ever receive a Nobel Price. We all wonder.
Karski was a great human being
Essential comment.
Karski was a great Polish patriot and awesome human being .
This man Jan Karsky is a gentleman & scholar. Professor & spy ! Gorgeous accent & very handsome in his youth , aye Chihuahua was he dashing ! A hero , a real MAN , they don't men like this anymore. 💞😇☺💜
I agreed! You said it better than I could have
Spy of Who??
One of the worst failings of Poles is their inability to tell their own history to the world. In the last 29 years, the world should have heard long and loudly about Sendler, Pilecki, Karski and Zegota at a bare minimum. There were so many others.
A remarkable people who haven't told their own history to the world.
Who thinks Chopin and Marie Curie are French?
@@chaosbynature True ☝️ 💯
Karski is a great storyteller. He's one of the most memorable people from "Shoah".
Bóg zapłać.
the Poles asked the Americans to destroy the railway track, the Americans did not even do it
To be fair, from a purely military point of view the destruction of railway track was very unlikely to have done anything to stop the Holocaust. The determination of the Nazis to commit genocide would be in no way lessened, and destroyed tracks can be repaired or replaced in fairly short order. It wouldn't have really denied the Nazis the means to commit genocide. Even if the trains were delayed a quarter of all the deaths of the Holocaust occurred in mass shootings.
There was also the additional problem, at least for the Western allies, of their aircraft not being in range of the camps in Poland until after parts of France and much of Italy had been liberated. By that point much of the genocide had already taken place. The bloodiest period of the Holocaust for example was in 1942-1943 when more than a quarter of all the Jews murdered during the Holocaust were killed during a 100 day period. This was still long before the D-Day landings at Normandy.
Sadly the only military means of stopping the Holocaust once it was under way was liberation of the camps with infantry on the ground. So long as Jews or other people deemed undesirable by the murderous thugs in control of Germany were at the mercy of those same Germans, there wasn't going to be any mercy. Physical liberation of the camps and the total destruction of the Nazi regime are very likely the only means to have stopped the Holocaust.
@@lycaonpictus9662 I think the gesture would have been life-affirming and without a doubt would have encouraged insurrection. If you felt that nobody in this world was going to lift a finger to help - that they could not even be _shamed_ into token action - that would crush your spirit.
Basically USA authorities didn't know polish history. Dark years of constant fighting for independence 1795-1918 created the institution of EMISARIUSZ. As being polish I know them all- just a few men appearing in the history. Each of them had a mission of priority and importance much higher than any military or political decisions in his time. Few of them paid their lives despite the fact they don't fight like soldiers on the battlefield. Their weapon is honor and the truth. milions human lives depended on Jan Karski in 1943. He spoke to Roosevelt and to The pope . He begged the pope on the knees to speak to the global opinion about Holocaust
Yeah...Friends....They sold us Polish to Soviet Union in Yalta!! First Nazi occupation, than Soviet Union occupation, both horrible. And we are talking about one century! We got our freedom in 1989 if not later, were are our friends for all these years? We had so many uprisings, always "in between". Mr Karski was honest, moved inside by the horrible things he had seen and experienced. Can you imagine what he felt when the powerful people didnt care? As a daughter of historian, I am proud to say I am proud to be Polish when I look at and listen to people like Mr Karski or Mr Pilecki and many more.
...find the people who did what had done for the humanity and to tell truth and who were not Polish...will have them honoured as well.
I am not a Jew, but my home was next to (50m away) to Litzmanstadt Getto, and I was told so many stories by the survivors of this Getto and Radegast prison. We will never know how many lives would be saved if our Friends helped us "more".
Thank you for sharing
Unbelieveable, damm presidant.
Is there a definitive biography of Jan Karski one should read? Thank you.
Yes, includes correcting some stuff in his memoir
@@thurmanwenzl8684 Thank you for responding. Do you know the title and author?
FDR cared more about horses than Jews being murdered by the Nazis.
In July 1943 when Karski met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Oval Office, telling him about the situation in Poland and becoming the first eyewitness to tell him about the Jewish Holocaust. During their meeting, Roosevelt asked about the condition of horses in Poland. Roosevelt did not ask one question about the Jews.
Or pols murdered by Nazis
FDR was either smoking weed or in the Twilight Zone. LOL
Complete, and ahistorical, nonsense. Karski was scarcely the only person to discuss the subject with Roosevelt.
@@mkadi70 by Germans
@@philipterzian4581 No one said he was.
this is not in the Shoah film
Karski is so eccentric its hilarious
Should be more well known - memoir and biog available
I was rummaging around a bin of free books at my local, small town library a few years ago and the spine of one old book without a jacket caught my eye. "It can't be," I told myself. But it was! Mr. Karski's "Story of a Secret State," first edition. I snatched it. I'm not surprised that the librarians didn't want to keep it, few people know of it. But it is one of my cherished possessions.
To be fair about president Roosevelt karski was impressed by Roosevelt bearing as a world leader and the line karski remember s Roosevelt saying we will win this war which he did as commander in chief plus this meeting was in 1943 at the peak of wwtwo with Roosevelt being very very busy in trying to win and don't forget president roosevelt died in April 1945 a month before wwtwo ended so it wasn't Roosevelt who sold Poland out plus it's is terribly tragic Poland taken over by soviet union Stalin horrible really but I think it would be been ww3 for the allies to liberate Poland the world was exhausted by wwtwo the biggest in history but eventually with the help support of president Reagan and the Polish pope Poland won independent let's be honest what other country did more for Poland than America
Makes me think of Poland. Polish food. Polish women. Polish beer. Polish dancing. Polish smiling. Polish fun. Germany and Russia don’t have fun so they wanted Poland.
What ignorance Of West .
Big time
Ignorant Westerners....that went to war and sacrificed their lives for the freedom of Europe...not once but TWICE (and likely will again, just like so many fighting as volunteers in Ukraine right now in 2022).
Roosevelt was such a prick. I can just imagine him saying that as well. Not only did he not help the Jews, he'd already accepted in principle that Stalin would be taking over Poland, so the whole thing was a lie.
So F... True
How about Felix Frankfurter?
Karski mentioned on the other occasions that he had problem to reserve a room in New Yourk's hotel because his wife was Jewish. He was essentially saying that antisemitism was very wide spread in USA.
He’s a bit of a ham
Real hero was rotmistrz Witold Pilecki (voluntary prisoner in Auschvitz for a Polish resistance operation,murdered by judeocommunist UB in 1949)
Arystoteles Onassis Both were:) and Irena Sendler
Faszystowski trollu, wypierdalaj siać swoją nacjonalistyczną propagandę w TVPiS albo innym Radiu Maryja
Jan Karski was a great pole
Roosevelt aka Rosenfeld
No more anti-semitic crap please
Roosevelt cared more about horses than jews !!!
ACTUALLY MOST PEOPLE LOVE HORSES MORE THAN JEWS ! ! !
BTW this Karski's wife was jewish
And Karski LOVED POLAND SO MUCH THAT HE STAYED IN USA !
+Peter Para Bellum Poland was under communist oppression. After war was finished and communists started to rule the Poland, people who belonged to resistance movement what was a part of Secret State in Poland during IIWW, they were put in prisons, tortured or killed by communists. Can you now understand why not only Karski but few hundreds thousands of poles who left on the west didn't want to come back to their fatherland?
Why?
Peter Para Bellum ignorant bastard
Ja ja genau werfluhty
His country was occupied by the Soviet Union after the war!!