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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

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Pelosi Celebrates WWII Vet and Georgetown Prof Jan Karski at Event Featuring Faculty, Artists

Pelosi Celebrates WWII Vet and Georgetown Prof Jan Karski at Event Featuring Faculty, Artists

By Jemima Denham December 4, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) joined a panel of politicians, artists, faculty and students reflecting on the legacy of celebrated Georgetown University professor Jan Karski in a Dec. 3 event that...

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David Strathairn plays Professor Jan Karski in this poignant reading of Karskis tales from the Second World War.

Staged Reading Illuminates Professor’s Story

By Grace Wydeven December 12, 2014

As the lights dim in Gonda Theater, an elderly actor playing the role of Jan Karski slowly emerges and takes his trademark place on a black bench at the center of the stage. This image of Professor...

Panel, Reading Mark Karski Centennial

By Katherine Richardson April 25, 2014

The university celebrated the centenary anniversary of the birth of Jan Karski, a late Georgetown professor and a member of the Polish World War II resistance, on Thursday afternoon with a panel discussion,...

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