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Coming to See Aunt Sophie
Author(s): Arthur Feinsod
The play is the true story of Jan Karski, a humble Polish-Catholic courier for the Underground during World War II who risked his life many times to get the word out about what the Nazis were doing to the Polish Jews. With the secret code phrase, “Coming to see Aunt Sophie,” he worked his way through Nazi-occupied Europe, finally ending up in the United States and giving his report in July 1943 to FDR himself. It is a remarkable story about a man who was a hero to everyone but himself and whose experiences of trying to alert the world and failing to prevent the Holocaust haunted him the rest of his life.
Format:Two-act, full-length play
Snapshot
Nationality of Author:U.S.
Experience(s) Chronicled:Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism | Concentration and Extermination Camps | Escape | The Ghettos | Resistance | Other Victims of Nazi Persecution | Righteous Gentiles
Tags: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jan Karski
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