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25 May 1948 | Witold Pilecki was executed in Warsaw. A Polish soldier in 1920 & 1939 wars, volunteer prisoner of the German #Auschwitz camp, co-founder of camp resistance. He escaped in April 1943 & wrote a report about the crimes in the camp. lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_16_ruch_opo… 
After his escape #Pilecki participated in the Warsaw Uprising, he was a POW at Lamsdorf & Murnau camps. After the war in the Polish II Corps of gen. Władysław Anders in Italy. During the communist terror in Poland sentenced to death & murdered on 25 May 1948.
"I've been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear." (Witold Pilecki)
26/27 April 1943 | Three Poles escaped #Auschwitz: Edward Ciesielski (12969), Witold Pilecki (4859) & Jan Redzej (5430). #Pilecki was one of the co-founders of military resistance inside the camp. After the escape, he wrote an elaborate report about German crimes in Auschwitz. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Telegrams sent by the camp Gestapo (Politische Abteilung - Political Department) in #Auschwitz informing about the escape. One mentions "Thomas Serafinski" (false identity of Witold Pilecki) and "Johann Retko" (Jan Redzej). The other, Edward Ciesielski.
This is how Witold Pilecki described his escape in his report.
19 September 1940 | Witold #Pilecki, a member of the Secret Polish Army, intentionally let himself be caught by German policemen during a roundup in #Warsaw to get arrested & be sent to #Auschwitz to set up a #resistance network there. The mission was a success.
Our lesson summarizes the organization of secret resistance activity that took place at Auschwitz from the very beginning of its operation, including informing the world about the crimes perpetrated in the camp: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_16_ruch_opo…
Learn more about Witold Pilecki and Polish military resistance movement at KL Auschwitz from the exhibition we published at @googlearts: google.com/culturalinstit…
26/27 April 1943 | Three Poles escaped #Auschwitz: Edward Ciesielski (12969), Witold Pilecki (4859) & Jan Redzej (5430). #Pilecki was one of the co-founders of military resistance inside the camp. After the escape, he wrote an elaborate report about German crimes in Auschwitz.
Telegrams sent by the camp Gestapo (Politische Abteilung - Political Department) in #Auschwitz informing about the escape. One mentions "Thomas Serafinski" (false identity of Witold Pilecki) and "Johann Retko" (Jan Redzej). The other, Edward Ciesielski.
This is how Witold Pilecki described his escape in his report.
15 March 1948 | District Military Court in Warsaw sentenced to death Col. Witold Pilecki, officer active in the underground. In 1940 he voluntarily submitted to arrest & deportation to the German Auschwitz camp to gather information about the camp. He was executed on 25 May 1948.
Learn more about Witold Pilecki and Polish military resistance movement at KL Auschwitz google.com/culturalinstit…
"I've been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear."
(Witold Pilecki)
Read the report written by #Pilecki after his escape from #Auschwitz with very powerful final words directed to the reader: rtmpilecki.eu/raport-3/
(Witold Pilecki)
Read the report written by #Pilecki after his escape from #Auschwitz with very powerful final words directed to the reader: rtmpilecki.eu/raport-3/
26/27 April 1943 | Three Poles escaped #Auschwitz: Edward Ciesielski (12969), Witold Pilecki (4859) & Jan Redzej (5430). #Pilecki was one of the co-founders of military resistance inside the camp. After the escape, he wrote an elaborate report about German crimes in Auschwitz.
Telegrams sent from #Auschwitz on April 17, 1943 informing about the escape of Thomas Serafiński (Witold Pilecki) and Johann Retko (Jan Redzej) as well as Edward Ciesielski.
This is how Witold Pilecki described his escape in his report.
