We are delighted to invite you to attend the exclusive theatre performance Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski starring Academy Award nominee David Strathairn on Tuesday May 31 at 8.00 pm at Azkuna Zentroa.In a tour-de-force, solo performance, Academy Award nominee David Strathairn (Good Night and Good Luck, Lincoln, Nomadland) portrays World War II hero and Holocaust witness Jan Karski, a messenger of truth who risked his life to carry his harrowing report from war-torn Poland to the Allied Nations and, ultimately, the Oval Office only to be ignored and disbelieved. Bearing witness to the despair of the Warsaw ghetto and standing tall in the halls of power, Strathairn captures the remarkable life of this self-described “insignificant, little man” whose forgotten story of moral courage and individual responsibility can still shake the conscience of the world.The theatrical production of Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski, written by Clark Young and Derek Goldman and directed by Goldman, was produced by The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University.The 90 minute theatre piece will be followed by a 30 minute conversation with actor David Strathairn and writers and directors Clark Young and Derek Goldman.The performance will be in English with subtitles in Spanish.
Jan Karski was a courier for the Polish Underground resistance during World War II. In 1942, Karski volunteered to walk through the Warsaw Ghetto and a Nazi extermination camp before traveling to London to report to the Allied Nations on the conditions of occupied Poland and, specifically, the Holocaust. He personally delivered his eyewitness account– and urgent appeal for intervention on behalf of the Jewish people– to British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, and later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Oval Office. His report was ignored.
After the war, Karski earned his Ph.D. at Georgetown University, where he was a beloved Professor in the School of Foreign Service for 40 years. Considering himself largely a failure and “an insignificant little man,” Karski didn’t share his story for decades until filmmaker Claude Lanzmann persuaded him to speak of his experiences for the first time in the celebrated documentary Shoah. Karski was made an honorary citizen of Israel and was awarded the distinction ‘Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem. Karski died in Washington, DC, in July 2000.
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