Unbelievable evil. (book review)
American Prospect, The, June, 2002 by Mohandas, Siddharth
"A Problem from Hell" America and the Age of Genocide By Samantha Power. Basic Books, 610 pages, $30.00
EARLY IN 1942 JAN KARSKI, A young Polish diplomat, smuggled himself into the Warsaw ghetto, where he witnessed Nazi atrocities in progress. He saw mass graves, starving children, and the killing of Jews in broad daylight. He then made his way to Belzec, a death camp near Poland's border with Ukraine. When he escaped later that year, he carried miniature microfilm documents describing the horrors he had seen. Karski, a Roman Catholic, joined international efforts to ...
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