The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery
A World War II, Nonfiction, Holocaust book. Those who looked death bravely in the eye were usually not chosen. Witold Pilecki, The Auschwitz...
In 1940, 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 1941, 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. Pilecki received brutal treatment until he escaped in April 1943; soon after, he wrote a brief report. This book is the first English translation of a 1945 expanded version. In the foreword, Poland s chief rabbi states, If heeded, Pilecki s early warnings might have changed the course of history. Pilecki s story was suppressed for half a century after his 1948 arrest by the Polish Communist regime as a Western spy. He was executed and expunged from Polish history. Pilecki writes in staccato style but also interjects his observations on humankind s lack of progress: We have strayed, my friends, we have strayed...
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He claims to have attained quite quickly an almost spiritual state of serenity. He felt happiness at the solidarity which the camps terrible conditions had created amongst the Poles: Then, I felt a single thought coursing through these Poles standing shoulder to shoulder, I felt that finally we were all united by the same anger, a desire for revenge, I felt myself in an environment perfectly suited to begin my work here and discovered within me a semblance of happiness... Witold Pilecki, The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery // Those who looked death bravely in the eye were usually not chosen. Witold Pilecki, The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery // I told him: I have been inside for two years and seven months. I have had a job to do here. Lately I have had no instructions. Now the Germans have shipped out our best people with whom Ive been working. I would have to start from scratch. I can see no further point in staying here. Therefore, Im going to leave. Captain 159 [Stanisaw Machowski] looked at me in some surprise and said: Yes. I can see that, but can one pick and choose when one wants to come to Auschwitz and when one wants to leave? I replied: One can. Witold Pilecki, The Auschwitz Volunteer:...
Polish army officer Witold Pilecki went 'undercover' into Auschwitz. His account of what happened inside this most infamous of death camps will haunt you for the rest of your life. A coragem de um Homem que foi para Auschwitz e presenciou o horror de milhares de Judeus...Testemunho extraordinrio O livro "O Voluntrio de Auschwitz" um livro cru. Que mostra do que a raa humana capaz quando se une para mal, mas que tambm mostra do que capaz quando se une para o bem.Witold Pilecki deve ser homenageado pela fora e coragem que teve para se entregar aos alemes e para ter ido para o campo de concentrao de forma voluntria. Passou l vrios...
