The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery
A History, Holocaust, Biography book. A man fighting for his life can do more than he ever...
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...
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- ISBN: 9781607720102 / 1607720108
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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:... Those who looked death bravely in the eye were usually not chosen. Witold Pilecki, The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery // 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 //
The Auschwitz Volunteer is the best book I read in 2012. If you're a reader of history, WWII, Poland, the Holocaust, or spy novels go & buy this book or buy it for someone you know who is into these subjects. You won't regret it.Pilecki's story is astonishing. He was a military man and member of the Polish resistance who volunteered... In a world where were so used to fictional superheroes, its hard to imagine there were ever any real ones; if anyone living or dead ever deserved to be called a superhero, its Witold Pilecki.Hes like William Wallace, James Bond, Rambo and MacGyver rolled into one.He was fighting Russia in the trenches in 1919-1920, and setting up secret... My son and I visited the Holocaust Museum in DC last summer, and I wanted to do some more reading about it. I found this one just looking through the shelves in our public library, and glad that I did. Without mentioning any spoilers, its a survivors story of 32-months in Auschwitz from 1940 to 1943 and how he was able to survive. Keep...
