Acclaimed actor David Strathairn portrays Holocaust witness Jan Karski in solo show coming to Berkeley Rep.
Jan Karski has a vitally important story to tell for anyone willing to listen.
“He’s exemplary of someone who accepted the civic responsibility of speaking truth to power, bearing witness to the events firsthand, being a courier of information critical to survival of states and nations and people — a man who exemplified in his life a real deep sense of duty and sacrifice for others,” Strathairn says.
But once he started talking about it in Claude Lanzmann’s 9½-hour documentary “Shoah,” Karski’s account was unforgettable.
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