Olive Tree in Memory of Jan Karski in Kotor
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Ambassador Levy emphasized that Karski was a “great hero, good Pole and above all, a real human being.”
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10/27/2014
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Ambassador Levy plants tree
Copyright: Jewish community of Montenegro
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Ambassador of Israel Yossef Levy had an honour to plant an olive tree and attend the unveiling of a memorial plaque in the city of Kotor on October 27th in a memory of Jan Karski, the man who tried to stop the Holocaust. The ceremony marking one hundred years since Karski’s birth was organised together by the Jewish community of Montenegro, the Embassy of Poland, the Embassy of Israel and the Municipality of Kotor.
At the ceremony in front of the Old City of Kotor, gathered audience was addressed by Yossef Levy, the Israeli Ambassador, Jaša Afandari, president of the Jewish community of Montenegro, Grazyna Sikorska, Ambassador of Poland and Marija Ćatović, mayor of Kotor. They emphasized the humanity of Karski, who fought against Nazism, conveying to the world the truth about the brutal suffering of innocent people. Ambassador Levy emphasized that Karski was a “great hero, good Pole and above all, a real human being.”
Jan Karski (24 June 1914 – 13 July 2000) was a Polish World War II resistance movement fighter and later professor at Georgetown University. In 1942 and 1943 Karski reported to the Polish government in exile and the Western Allies on the situation in German-occupied Poland, especially the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the secretive German-Nazi extermination camps.
On 2 June 1982, Yad Vashem recognised Jan Karski as Righteous among the Nations. A tree bearing a memorial plaque in his name was planted that same year at Yad Vashem's Avenue of the Righteous among the Nations in Jerusalem. Twelve years later, Israel conferred honorary citizenship on Karski, who died in 2000.
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