{"id":20239,"date":"2014-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.hdke.hu\/the-first-witness-to-testify-on-the-horrors-of-holocaust\/"},"modified":"2014-11-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:00:00","slug":"the-first-witness-to-testify-on-the-horrors-of-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/the-first-witness-to-testify-on-the-horrors-of-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Witness to Testify on the Horrors of Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jan Karski (1914-2000)<\/strong> \u2013 courier of the Polish underground state during World War II who twice infiltrated the Warsaw Ghetto and a concentration camp in German Nazi-occupied Poland. His eyewitness account jointly with a call for urgent intervention, unfortunately unheard, he delivered to W. Churchill and F. D. Roosevelt in 1942. Citizen of Poland, the USA, honorary citizen of Israel. A Righteous Among the Nations.<\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<p>Karski\u2019s deeds will be honored; his legacy and lessons learned 75 years after the outbreak of WWII at a commemorative session organized by the Embassies of the Republic of Poland and of the United States of America, the Polish Institute in Budapest and the Holocaust Memorial Center at P\u00e1va Street 39 on October 16, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>16,00<\/p>\n<p>\tPlanting of a memorial tree. Addresses by<\/p>\n<p>\t<strong>Prof. Dr. Gy\u00f6rgy Haraszti<\/strong>, chairman, Holocaust Memorial Center,<\/p>\n<p>\t<strong>Roman Kowalski<\/strong>, Ambassador<\/p>\n<p>\t<strong>Andr\u00e9 Goodfriend<\/strong>, Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affairs<\/p>\n<p>16,30<\/p>\n<p>\tPresentation of the book <em><strong>Karski , Righteous Among the Nations <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\tby <strong>Andrej \u017bbikowski<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>17,00<\/p>\n<p>\tPanel discussion on the legacy of Karski.<\/p>\n<p>Participants:<\/p>\n<p>\t<strong>Prof. Dr. Gy\u00f6rgy Haraszti<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p>\t<strong>Prof Andrej \u017bbikowski<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p>\t<strong>G\u00e1bor Papp,<\/strong> Chief editor, BBC History<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>18,00<\/p>\n<p>\tReception<\/p>\n<p>For a selection of photos from the event please visit our photo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hdke.hu\/galeria\/esemenyek\/jan-karski-20141016\">gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/files\/file\/Jan%20Karski%20Invitation.JPG\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 353px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/files\/file\/Jan%20Karski%20megh%C3%ADv%C3%B3.JPG\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 310px; float: left;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan Karski (1914-2000) \u2013 courier of the Polish underground state during World War II who twice infiltrated the Warsaw Ghetto and a concentration camp in German Nazi-occupied Poland. His eyewitness account jointly with a call for urgent intervention, unfortunately unheard, he delivered to W. Churchill and F. D. Roosevelt in 1942. Citizen of Poland, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}