A TSA employee at Newark Liberty International Airport dies from complications of COVID-19, authorities say
The secretary who took down the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to be smuggled out of Nazi-occupied Poland has died at age 107 from the coronavirus at a New York City hospital, the Polish Press Agency reported.
Karski later personally delivered word of the mass slaughter of the Jews by the Germans to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The U.S. government's main international relief agency has issued an"urgent request" to aid groups around the world that work with refugees and impoverished people asking them to find personal protective gear and medical supplies that could be made available to the federal government, according to an internal email obtained by NBC News.
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