The Man Who Volunteered For Auschwitz And Escaped To Tell About The...The Man Who Volunteered For Auschwitz And Escaped To Tell About The Horrors

Witold Pilecki was a Polish soldier, a rittmeister of the Cavalry during the German invasion of Poland, the founder of the Secret Polish Armyresistance group in German-occupied Poland in November 1939, and a member of the underground Home Army, which was formed in February 1942. As the author of Witold’s Report, the first intelligence report on Auschwitz concentration camp, Pilecki enabled the Polish government-in-exile to convince the Allies that the Holocaust was taking place. In 1940, Pilecki presented to his superiors a plan to enter Germany’s Auschwitz concentration camp, gather intelligence on the camp from the inside, and organize inmate resistance. Until then, little had been known about the Germans’ running of the camp and it was thought to be an internment camp or large prison rather than a death camp. His superiors approved the plan and provided him with a false identity card in the name of “Tomasz Serafiński”. On 19 September 1940, he deliberately went out during a Warsaw street roundup and was caught by the Germans, along with some 2,000 innocent civilians. After two days detention in the Light Horse Guards Barracks, where prisoners suffered beatings with rubber truncheons, Pilecki was sent to Auschwitz and was assigned inmate number 4859.


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A very brave man indeed.

Hope everyone has a fab evening.

He was and he was one of many. The History Channel did a documentary on Witold's story a couple of years back and  it's available on You Tube.

It's a fascinating story and well worth a watch. Pick it up on your Mobile and if you have a Tele with built in internet you can watch on your set by connecting to it.