“Karski & The Lords of Humanity” received the Lavr Award 2016.

The ceremony of The Lavr National Awards was held on 9th December, 2016 in Moscow. The film by Sławomir Grunberg was awarded in Educational Film Section. The film is the coproduction of TVP, Apple Film Proctuction, LOGTV,...

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Jan Karski has become an international icon of fight for dignity and human rights as well as a voice of opposition to totalitarianism. He personified universal values in human life such as courage, bravery and responsibility for lives and safety of others. Karski, who was an extremely intelligent and skilled diplomat, was assigned as an emissary of the Polish Underground State during WWII. In 1942 and 1943 the man reported to the British and the U.S. He provided the Allies with one of the earliest and most accurate accounts of the Holocaust.