Karski WWW page, book, events

E. Thomas Wood (75022.741@compuserve.com)
16 Mar 96 11:57:39 EST

Friends--

Please excuse the wholesale nature of this posting, but I thought some of you
would be interested in hearing about the new World Wide Web page and other
developments involving my book on Holocaust hero Jan Karski.

Please feel free to contact me by e-mail at:

tomwood@accessus.net

Thanks for your interest.

--E. Thomas Wood, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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* Highly Regarded Cybrary Adds Jan Karski Web Site
* Biography of Holocaust Hero Karski Released in Paperback
* Karski, Author to Appear in DC, San Francisco, Nashville
* German Edition of Book Forthcoming
* Author Seeking Former Holocaust Refugees

Nashville, 16 March 1996 -- A comprehensive new Internet site and several
upcoming public events are among the latest developments involving
Karski:_How_One_Man_Tried_to_Stop_the_Holocaust, the critically acclaimed
biography by E. Thomas Wood and Stanislaw M. Jankowski (John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., hardback 1994).
_Karski_ retells the exploits of Jan Karski, a Roman Catholic member of
the Polish underground resistance movement during World War II who survived
Soviet captivity and Gestapo torture to bring his eyewitness account of the
Nazi Holocaust to the free world in 1942. Jan Karski eventually carried his
message to top Allied leaders, including U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Now retired as a professor at Georgetown University, Karski has received
many awards in honor of his efforts, including Poland's highest award and
honorary citizenship in the State of Israel.
The new developments include:

1. A Karski site on the World Wide Web, as part of the much-praised
Cybrary of the Holocaust Web page. For the moment, the site is located at:

http://www.writething.com/cybrary/karski.html

but its permanent address after early April, when the entire Cybrary moves,
will be:

http://remember.org/karski/

The site includes excerpts from the book, photographs of and articles
about Karski, an online tour of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in
the company of Karski, and other features. It will soon include sound clips of
Karski speaking about his wartime activities as well.
The Cybrary of the Holocaust is an educational resource operated by
Michael Dunn of The Write Thing, an internet consulting firm in Paradise,
California, with contributions of material from around the world.
Numerous online and print magazines have endorsed the Cybrary-- among
them the hard-to-please GNN_Web_Review, which gave it a five-star rating. The
Cybrary, said GNN's reviewer, "will educate you, move you to tears, and leave
you with great hope.... It may well be the best educational site on the
Internet."

2. Publication of _Karski_ in a paperback edition by John Wiley & Sons
worldwide.
Critical acclaim for _Karski_ has spanned the globe. The_Times of London
called it "a riveting as well as a harrowing read." Michael Berenbaum,
director of the U.S. Holocaust Research Institute, wrote that it is "a
gripping biography.... worthy of the life it depicts. The authors write
without jargon and with a breeziness that permits quick reading, but they have
done their homework. Historians cannot answer 'what if,' but the question
burns through each page of this book." Australia's Canberra_Times found the
book "compelling"; Publishers_Weekly, "engrossing"; Zbigniew Brzezinski,
"superb."
The paperback edition of _Karski_ is priced at $16.95 in the U.S., where
it is available via mail order by calling 800-225-5945. The book is widely
available through bookstores in the U.S. and other countries. For information
about international orders, contact E. Thomas Wood by e-mail:
tomwood@accessus.net

3. Upcoming public appearances by Jan Karski and E. Thomas Wood.
Professor Jan Karski, who is now 82 years old and lives in the
Washington, D.C. area, will be the featured guest at several events in coming
weeks, accompanied by author E. Thomas Wood.
On Wednesday, March 20, from 3:00 until 5:00 in the afternoon, Karski and
Wood will sign copies of the book at the museum shop of the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, D.C.
Between Saturday, April 13 and Tuesday, April 16, Karski and Wood will be
in the San Francisco Bay Area for several events, including a dinner in
Karski's honor sponsored by the Holocaust Center of Northern California on
April 15 and events at Sonoma State University on April 16.
Between Thursday, April 18 and Sunday, April 21, Karski and Wood will be
in Nashville. On Friday, April 19, from 5:30 until 7:00 in the evening, Karski
and Wood will sign copies of _Karski_ at BookStar on Harding Road. Karski will
deliver the sermon at a Holocaust Remembrance Week service that night at 8:00,
at The Temple on Harding Road.

4. German translation to be published.
Bleicher Verlag GmbH u. Co., of Gerlingen, Germany, has purchased the
rights to publish a German edition of _Karski_. Work on a translation is now
underway, and the book should be available sometime in 1997.
This edition is the second translation of the book in the works.
Wydawnictwo Baran i Suszczynski, of Krakow, Poland, will publish a Polish
edition later in 1996.

_Karski_ author E. Thomas Wood is now at work on a history of "Stalin's
Harsh Refuge from the Holocaust"-- the escape of hundreds of thousands of Jews
from the cauldron of Eastern Europe into the hardship of the Soviet Union
during the war years. He welcomes any contacts with survivors of that passage
who would be willing to share their experiences with him. Wood can be reached
at:
3801 Woodmont Lane
Nashville, Tennessee 37215
USA
telephone 615-298-4716
e-mail: tomwood@accessus.net