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Jun 25, 2019 · Over the next two and half years, Pilecki forged an underground army within Auschwitz that sabotaged facilities, assassinated Nazi informants and officers, and gathered evidence of terrifying abuse and mass murder.
Historical background. Pilecki was a 38-year-old landowner and cavalry captain ( rotmistrz) in the Polish Armed Forces reserves when Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939. When the country was overrun by the Germans and the Soviets, he joined the Polish underground army.
Jun 6, 2019 · The Volunteer (2019) by Jack Fairweather is the incredibly moving account of Witold Pilecki, a member of the Warsaw resistance during WW2 who voluntarily went into Auschwitz concentration camp in September 1940 to set up a resistance cell, report back to the outside world, and to incite a rebellion.
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Jan 9, 2020 · Synopsis. Former war reporter and author of The Good War, Jack Fairweather brings an expert’s understanding to the first history of Witold Pilecki, the Polish resistance agent who infiltrated Auschwitz, feeding back vital intelligence to the Allied forces.
Mar 11, 2019 · Salvatore Scibona's new novel is a generational saga, an epic of Vietnam and other places rendered in language that makes even simple things sound...
Jul 21, 2024 · July 21, 2024, 7:09 AM PDT. By Alex Seitz-Wald. President Joe Biden insists he’s staying in the race, and Vice President Kamala Harris is standing by his side. But that hasn’t stopped the ...
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery is a nonfiction 2012 book consisting of a report (also described as a diary) by Polish resistance fighter Witold Pilecki, an introduction written by historian Norman Davies and a foreword by Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich.
Jul 26, 2024 · Volunteers and donations surge into Democratic campaigns with Harris atop the ticket. Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del., Monday, July 22, 2024. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
Scibona’s immersive, intense, and somber novel, its language eloquent and moving, deserves and requires a close reading . . . The Volunteer is a stirring examination into the meaning of family, identity, belonging, and sacrifice, and the effects of institutional power at its most horrifying.”.
