A leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and a World War II envoy who told the West about the Holocaust were among those named honorary citizens of the Polish city of Lodz. In addition to Marek Edelman and Jan Karski, film director Roman Polanski was also honored by Lodz, where some 200,000 Jews lived before World War II.
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