Jan Karski survived Soviet captivity, Gestapo torture, and a suicide attempt to carry eyewitness testimony of the Holocaust to London and the Oval Office, only to watch the world do almost nothing. This episode traces his path from a Catholic upbringing in a largely Jewish neighborhood of Lodz, through the elite Polish diplomatic service, to the POW camp where he swapped his officer's uniform for a private's rags and escaped the fate of the Katyn Massacre.

It follows his work as an underground courier, his escape from a Gestapo-guarded hospital, his two trips into the Warsaw Ghetto, and his infiltration of the Izbica transit camp in a guard's uniform. The conversation covers microfilm hidden in hollowed-out keys, the meetings with Anthony Eden, Felix Frankfurter, and Franklin Roosevelt, the creation of the War Refugee Board, his 35 years of ...