Poland

2014

This commemorative silver coin honors Jan Karski, a Polish resistance fighter and eyewitness to the Holocaust who risked his life to inform the Allied world about Nazi crimes against Jews and occupied Poland. The obverse features a symbolic key-shaped composition containing fragmented text and testimony, referencing truth, access to hidden knowledge, and moral responsibility. The design emphasizes memory, conscience, and the individual’s duty to speak against genocide and systemic violence. The coin stands as a powerful meditation on human rights, historical truth, and ethical courage in the face of atrocity.