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Jun 25, 2019 · To uncover the fate of the thousands being interred at a mysterious Nazi camp on the border of the Reich, a thirty-nine-year-old Polish resistance fighter named Witold Pilecki volunteered for an audacious mission: assume a fake identity, intentionally get captured and sent to the new camp, and then report back to the underground on what had ...
Pilecki was a 38-year-old landowner and cavalry captain 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.
- Jack Fairweather
- 2019
- 2019
- United Kingdom
Jun 22, 2012 · By Timothy Snyder. June 22, 2012. One man volunteered for Auschwitz, and now we have his story. In September 1940 the 39-year-old Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki deliberately walked into...
: xi–xiii More recently Pilecki was the subject of Adam J. Koch's 2018 book A Captain’s Portrait: Witold Pilecki – Martyr for Truth and Jack Fairweather's 2019 book The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz, the latter a winner of the Costa Book Award.
- 1918–1947
- Cavalry captain (rotmistrz)
- Unknown; possibly in Powązki Military Cemetery
Jul 26, 2019 · In his new book, The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz, veteran foreign correspondent Jack Fairweather has unearthed the lost story of Auschwitz inmate...
Feb 17, 2020 · The volunteer is Witold Pilecki, a Polish officer who was born in Wilno, then in Poland, now Vilnius in Lithuania. After Poland was invaded and divided by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in...
