Program for Honorary Doctorate and Jan Karski Award Ceremony for Professor Elie Wiesel

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Program for Honorary Doctorate and Jan Karski Award Ceremony for Professor Elie Wiesel

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This document is a program and informational booklet for a ceremony honoring Professor Elie Wiesel. The first page outlines the program for the conferral of an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Gdańsk and the Jan Karski Award upon Wiesel. The ceremony includes speeches by Rector Andrzej Ceynowa and Ambassador Andrzej Towpik, a laudation, and an acceptance speech by Professor Wiesel. The subsequent pages provide context for the Jan Karski Award. Page two is a detailed biography of Jan Karski (1914-2000), a Polish resistance hero who reported on the Holocaust to the West. It highlights his wartime courier activities, his post-war academic career, and the establishment of the Jan Karski Society, of which Elie Wiesel was the Honorary President. Page three lists the laureates of the Jan Karski Eagle Award from 2000 to 2006, recognizing figures for humanitarian service and contributions to democracy, including Jacek Kuron, Marek Edelman, and Adam Michnik. The final page contains the formal Latin text conferring the honorary doctorate on Professor Wiesel.

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Gdańsk, University, and Jan Society. n.d. “Program for Honorary Doctorate and Jan Karski Award Ceremony for Professor Elie Wiesel”. Compound Object. Organization Papertrail. Program for Honorary Doctorate and Jan Karski Award Ceremony for Professor Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel Digital Archive. https://grayzel.gratz.edu/ew/program-honorary-doctorate-and-jan-karski-award-ceremony-professor-elie-wiesel.

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