Article: Word From the Ghetto.(a man sees a transit camp for Jews being sent to concentration camps during World War II)(Brief Article)

WARSAW, 1942: Desperate to tell the Allies what was happening inside Nazi-occupied Poland, the government-in-exile sent Jan Karski, 28, a courier for the underground Resistance, to London and to Washington. Karski was told to provide the Western powers with an assessment of the German military machine and to alert the world to the destruction of the Jews. He did so. But few believed him.

In the summer of 1942, i was told I would be sent to London. I went to the leaders of different underground organizations for messages, including two Jewish leaders. One told me: "The Jewish masses don't know what is happening to the Jews. Hitler has decided to murder all the ...

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