· In , the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and reported from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in , were among the first eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz atrocities: the extermination of Soviet POWs, its Brand: Brilliance Audio. The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery. The Auschwitz Volunteer.: In , the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and reported from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in Author: Witold Pilecki. · That was on a relatively good day at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp in , in the words of the only known person to have ever volunteered to be a prisoner there. His name was Witold Pilecki. His story is one of history’s most amazing Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.
Pilecki's most comprehensive report on Auschwitz, written in and kept secret for nearly 50 years, was published in English for the first time in as "The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond. [Image: cover of The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery.] We are also here to acknowledge the publication for the first time in English of an extraordinary historical document, a firsthand account of life in what has been described as hell on earth, written by a true hero, Polish Army Captain Witold Pilecki. In Italian historian Marco Patricelli wrote a book about Witold Pilecki, Il volontario (), which received the Acqui Award of History that year. In Pilecki's diary was translated into English by Garliński and published under the title The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery.
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery. USA: Aquila Polonica (US) Ltd. pp. ISBN ↑ Lidia Świerczek, Pilecki's life Institute of National Remembrance. Last accessed on 14 March ↑ Foot, Michael Richard Daniell (), Six Faces of Courage. Secret agents against Nazi tyranny. Witold Pilecki, Leo Cooper, ISBN 0. With calm deliberation, Polish Army officer Witold Pilecki walked into a Nazi German street round-up in Warsaw and became Auschwitz Prisoner No. Pilecki had volunteered for a potentially suicidal secret undercover mission for the Polish Underground: smuggle out intelligence about this new German concentration camp, and build a resistance organization among the prisoners. In , the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and reported from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in , were among the first eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz atrocities: the extermination of Soviet POWs, its function as a camp for Polish political prisoners, and the “final solution” for Jews.
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