The World Knew
Jan Karski’s Mission for Humanity
On loan from the Jan Karski Educational Foundation and sponsored by the Tennessee Holocaust Commission.
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April 5, 2025 to May 5, 2025Gallery
Bilo Spencer Nelson AuditoriumThis 22-panel exhibition illustrates World War II Polish resistance fighter and underground courier, Jan Karski’s mission of courage during World War II, and his subsequent life and testimony. It shows how Karski entered the Warsaw Ghetto and Izbica deportation site to collect evidence of the Nazi persecution of the Jewish people, and how he smuggled the information across occupied Europe to Western leaders, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is graphically engaging, with eye-catching period photos, correspondence and primary source documents.
Images courtesy of the Jan Karski Educational Foundation.
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The tour of The World Knew: Jan Karski’s Mission for Humanity traveling exhibition is organized by the Jan Karski Educational Foundation. The exhibition was created by the Polish History Museum with a major support from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Additional funding was provided by the National Endowment for Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition publication do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
