THE KARSKI REPORT

A film by Claude LANZMANN

48’ / status : completed

The Karski Report is a documentary about Polish resistance fighter Yann Karski, a witness to the Warsaw ghetto and former courier for the Polish government in exile in London, who alerted the Allies, notably President Roosevelt in Washington on July 28, 1943, to the atrocities being perpetrated against European Jewry. In 1978, Claude Lanzmann filmed Karski at his home in Washington. He tells the story.