WHO: Consul General of the Republic of Poland Paulina Kapuścińska and
President of the Polish-American Congress in Wisconsin Mark Pienkos
WHAT: Unveiling of exhibit “The World Knew” about the life of Jan Karski, a diplomat
who tried to stop the Holocaust
WHEN: 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
WHERE: Rotunda of the Wisconsin State Capitol, 2 E Main Street, Madison, WI
53703.
Consul General of the Republic of Poland Paulina Kapuścińska and President of the Polish-American Congress in Wisconsin Mark Pienkos will open an exhibit to honor the memory of Jan Karski, the Polish diplomat and eye-witness to the Nazi death camp atrocities who reported to the Western Allies about the Holocaust while there was still time to save millions of lives.
The exhibit is sponsored in Wisconsin by the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago and is being co-presented at the Wisconsin State Capitol thanks to cooperation between the Wisconsin State Governor Scott Walker and Consul General Paulina Kapuścińska. The exhibit was made by the Polish History Museum in Warsaw (www.muzhp.pl) and was made available by Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (www.mfa.gov.pl) and the Jan Karski Educational Foundation (www.jankarski.org).
This educational exhibit conveys a timeless civic message about people’s moral choices that even a single person’s actions can make a difference.
The exhibit will be displayed for the week of September 23-26, 2013 and is located in the Rotunda of the Wisconsin State Capitol, 2 E Main Street, Madison, WI 53703.
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