The Auschwitz volunteer : beyond bravery
September 1940. Polish Army officer Witold Pilecki deliberately walked into a Nazi German street round-up in Warsaw and became Auschwitz Prisoner No. 4859. He had volunteered for a secret undercover mission: smuggle out intelligence about the new German concentration camp, and build a resistance organization among prisoners. Pilecki's clandestine intelligence, received by the Allies in 1941, was among ...
Organisatie
NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies
Auteur
Pilecki, Witold, 1901-1948,