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Celebrates 2014 as the centennial year of the birth of Jan Karski, and honors his life and legacy.
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[S. Res. 594 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]
113th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. RES. 594
Celebrating the centennial year of the birth of Jan Karski and honoring
his extraordinary and courageous life.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
December 4, 2014
Ms. Mikulski (for herself and Mr. Kirk) submitted the following
resolution; which was considered and agreed to
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RESOLUTION
Celebrating the centennial year of the birth of Jan Karski and honoring
his extraordinary and courageous life.
Whereas Jan Karski was born on April 24, 1914, as Jan Kozielewski, in Lodz,
Poland;
Whereas Jan Karski served in the Polish diplomatic service, enlisted in the
military, and was serving in the Polish army when German soldiers
invaded Poland in 1939;
Whereas Jan Karski was captured by the Red Army when the Soviet Union invaded
Poland;
Whereas in 1940, Jan Karski escaped the horrific Katyn Massacre, in which an
estimated 22,000 Poles, including 8,000 Polish military officers, were
brutally slain by Soviet soldiers;
Whereas Jan Karski escaped to Warsaw and joined the Polish underground
resistance movement, where he served as a courier delivering messages to
the Polish government-in-exile detailing the horrific brutality of the
Nazis in Warsaw;
Whereas Jan Karski risked his life on several occasions, including when he
infiltrated the Warsaw ghetto and the Izbica transit camp, and provided
some of the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to the Polish
government-in-exile, the British government, and the United States
Government;
Whereas in July of 1943, Jan Karski traveled to the United States to meet with
President Roosevelt to describe the horrors of the Nazi genocide he had
witnessed;
Whereas Jan Karski remained dedicated throughout his life to raising global
awareness of the atrocities of the Holocaust;
Whereas after World War II, Jan Karski moved to the United States and enrolled
in Georgetown University, earning a Ph.D. in 1952 and teaching at the
university's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service for 35 years
until his retirement in 1984;
Whereas Jan Karski became a citizen of the United States in 1954;
Whereas Jan Karski was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in
2012 for his courageous efforts in uncovering the atrocities of the
Holocaust and his commitment to sharing what he witnessed with the
world;
Whereas the Parliament of the Republic of Poland has designated 2014 as ``The
Year of Jan Karski''; and
Whereas on April 1, 2014, to mark Jan Karski's 100th birthday, the Senate
unanimously passed a resolution honoring his bravery and dedication in
telling the world of the atrocities that took place in Poland during the
Holocaust: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) celebrates 2014 as the centennial year of the birth of
Jan Karski; and
(2) honors the life and legacy of Jan Karski.
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Introduced in Senate
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S6356; text as passed Senate: CR S6352)
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6356; text as passed Senate: CR S6352)
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