@twist4488 Thank you for your kind words. I still miss Professor Karski deeply, though he would be approaching 100 years old now. I still hope to contribute to a documentary film about his amazing life someday.
I ought to have made that more clear. After my biography of Professor Karski was published, he suggested that we record for posterity a definitive interview. He wanted a chance to leave a record of his comments in which he would be speaking with knowledge of the many previously unknown or forgotten facts I had unearthed in my research. (continued)
(continuing, part 2:) I hired a film crew and conducted a series of conversations with the Professor in Washington during the first week of October 1996. For some years, I was involved in various efforts to make a documentary film based in part on this footage. I stopped trying to make that film happen quite a while ago, but I remain open to proposals. (continued)
(continuing, part 3 of 3:) The original Beta-format tapes of the interviews are held at the Hoover Institution, on the Stanford University campus, where many other archival materials related to Karski are also located. Researchers can consult the tapes with my permission, and I can grant access to them for filmmakers.
Note: Karski did not fully recall this story until documents surfaced after the publication of my biography of him. The account in that book is therefore incomplete and partially inaccurate. Further information on Wertheim family obtained from Prof. Jan T. Gross of New York University, whose mother was related to the Wertheims.
Names mentioned here that may be hard to make out: * Zizyn Dolny -- hamlet in eastern Poland where Karski was taking the couple * Mme. Siemiatkowska -- owner of mansion at Zizyn Dolny that served as a safe house for AK operatives and refugees * Lublin, Pulawy -- cities to the east; train was headed in this direction
Thank you for an amazing video archive and for your time. I am sure the interviews in their entirety are something to behold.
The world needs heroes, Jan Karski was one.
twist4488 10 months ago
@twist4488 Thank you for your kind words. I still miss Professor Karski deeply, though he would be approaching 100 years old now. I still hope to contribute to a documentary film about his amazing life someday.
EThomasWood 10 months ago
Incredible Polish man...this Jan Karski.
BlackCountryPuddler 2 years ago
@BlackCountryPuddler Check Witold Pilecki biography - was better hero than Superman....
ferdovit 2 years ago
Why don't the "film-makers" create a movie about someone like this? Or other Poles like Witold Pilecki.Henryk Slawik etc....?
divustitus 2 years ago
he could have contacted ak anticollaboration department and that scumbag would be hit the next day
rub3nski 3 years ago
yea right you did not make this. he died in 2000 and you just now uploaded? suspicious.
you need to turn the volume up, too. i cannot hear him for shit!
foldedintobeauty 4 years ago
thank you for your graceful contribution to my day
EThomasWood 4 years ago
np. turn up the volume so i can hear this great man.
foldedintobeauty 4 years ago
What is this from?
DonJulioBlanco2002 4 years ago
I ought to have made that more clear. After my biography of Professor Karski was published, he suggested that we record for posterity a definitive interview. He wanted a chance to leave a record of his comments in which he would be speaking with knowledge of the many previously unknown or forgotten facts I had unearthed in my research. (continued)
EThomasWood 4 years ago
(continuing, part 2:) I hired a film crew and conducted a series of conversations with the Professor in Washington during the first week of October 1996. For some years, I was involved in various efforts to make a documentary film based in part on this footage. I stopped trying to make that film happen quite a while ago, but I remain open to proposals. (continued)
EThomasWood 4 years ago
(continuing, part 3 of 3:) The original Beta-format tapes of the interviews are held at the Hoover Institution, on the Stanford University campus, where many other archival materials related to Karski are also located. Researchers can consult the tapes with my permission, and I can grant access to them for filmmakers.
EThomasWood 4 years ago
Note: Karski did not fully recall this story until documents surfaced after the publication of my biography of him. The account in that book is therefore incomplete and partially inaccurate. Further information on Wertheim family obtained from Prof. Jan T. Gross of New York University, whose mother was related to the Wertheims.
EThomasWood 4 years ago
Names mentioned here that may be hard to make out: * Zizyn Dolny -- hamlet in eastern Poland where Karski was taking the couple * Mme. Siemiatkowska -- owner of mansion at Zizyn Dolny that served as a safe house for AK operatives and refugees * Lublin, Pulawy -- cities to the east; train was headed in this direction
EThomasWood 4 years ago