Film Screening & Discussion: Karski & the Lords of Humanity

Please join the East Central European Center and the Harriman Institute for a screening of Karski & The Lords of Humanity, a partially animated documentary about a member of the Polish underground during World War II. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with producer and director Sławomir Grünberg.

Run time: 72 minutes
Language: English

Karski & The Lords of Humanity is a partially animated documentary which tells the story of Jan Karski, a member of the Polish underground who acted as a courier during World War II and whose most prominent mission was to inform the Allied powers of Nazi crimes against the Jews of Europe in an effort to prevent the Holocaust. Jan Karski infiltrated the Warsaw Ghetto and a Nazi transit camp and carried his dreadful eye-witness report of the atrocities to Britain and the United States, hoping that it would shake the conscience of the powerful leaders or—as he would later call them—the Lords of Humanity. In 2012 Jan Karski was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

From the Harriman Institute.