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TitleWitold Pilecki: The man who volunteered for Auschwitz

Author

Jacek Pawlowicz

Call number940.5318/0422

Object number08867i

Place of publicationPrague, Czech Republic

PublisherInstitute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes

Year of publication

2013

Physical descriptionpp84-95

MaterialArticle

ISBN9788087211793

NotesArticle from the book 'Lest we forget: memory of totalitarianism in Europe' pp84-95

Description

Witold Pilecki was born in Northern Russia into a Polish family. As a cavalry officer he fought the Germans in World War II. In 1940 he volunteered to infiltrate the Auschwitz concentration camp to gather information and organise a Polish resistance movement. He completed his mission and escaped from the camp in 1943. The Polish communist secret police arrested him in 1947 and charged him with espionage. He was sentenced to death and executed in 1948

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