Witold Pilecki: The man who volunteered for Auschwitz

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