
Jan Karski, as a member of the Polish underground, infiltrated the Warsaw Ghetto, a Transit Camp, then carried his eyewitness reports of the atrocities to Britain and the United States to inform the Allied powers of Nazi crimes against the Jews of Europe in an effort to prevent the Holocaust.... (Full plot summary below)
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Jan Karski, as a member of the Polish underground, infiltrated the Warsaw Ghetto, a Transit Camp, then carried his eyewitness reports of the atrocities to Britain and the United States to inform the Allied powers of Nazi crimes against the Jews of Europe in an effort to prevent the Holocaust.
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| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeGathering vintage interviews from a couple of different documentaries, the film movingly observes a man who can be physically unsettled by things he saw several decades prior. |
| The New York TimesAndy WebsterKarski & the Lords of Humanity is fascinating, but Mr. Lanzmann’s efforts tower over it. |
| Village VoiceMichael NordineIn their abstraction, a number of striking animated sequences prove more effective in conveying these horrors than the talking-head segments that contextualize them. |
| Los Angeles TimesCharles SolomonAlthough it is often moving, the film is less satisfying than it could be. |
| User ReviewJane RA moving and historically accurate account of a diplomat from the Polish Underground during WWII. Definitely worth seeing! |