Remember This
Experience Academy Award nominee David Strathairn as Jan Karski, in this one-man true story of moral courage and individual responsibility.
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Remembering Jan Karski
Streaming now: Go behind the scenes with Academy Award nominee David Strathairn and the creative team of Great Performances: Remember This for a look at how they tailored the original stage production to shine on screen.
Remembering Jan Karski—the inside companion piece from Exploring Hate—traces the artistic journey across genres, spotlighting Strathairn’s powerful tour-de-force performance in keeping Karski’s harrowing story alive, along with new interviews from people who knew Karski personally and whose lives he forever changed.
Even as Karski boldly tried to warn the world about Nazi atrocities while there was still time to stop them, he humbly considered himself “an insignificant little man.” Remember This and Remembering Jan Karski together present the true story of an exceptional man, whose life and legacy remain urgent and relevant today.
Premiered March 13th on PBS. Streaming now at pbs.org/gperf and on the PBS app. Encore broadcast Sunday, April 16 at 6 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).
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Features
Behind the Scenes of “Remember This”
Listen to actor David Strathairn and the directors of “Remember This” explain how they adapted the play for the screen.
The Invasion of Poland
David Strathairn as Jan Karski reenacts the invasion of Poland and the story of how he became a prisoner of war.
A Plea to Roosevelt
Szmul Zygielbojm, a Polish and Jewish politician in exile in London, writes a letter begging them to intervene in the Holocaust.
Remember This Preview
Experience Academy Award nominee David Strathairn in this one-man true story of moral courage and individual responsibility.
The Legacy of Jan Karski
Explore the legacy of Jan Karski, who risked his life to carry the first eyewitness reports of the Holocaust to the Western world.
Against Mind and Heart
One day in 1943, the truth collided with a very human failing: our inability to believe those facts which are too awful to bear.
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