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Witold Pilecki
Polish military officer (1901–1948)
Witold Pilecki (Polish:[ˈvitɔltpiˈlɛt͡skʲi]ⓘ; 13 May 1901 – 25 May 1948), known by the codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh and Witold,[1] was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader.
As a youth, Pilecki joined Polish underground scouting; in the aftermath of World War I, he joined the Polish militia and, later, the Polish Army. He participated in the Polish–Soviet War, which ended in 1921. In 1939, he participated in the unsuccessful defense of Poland against the German invasion and, shortly afterward, joined the Polish resistance, co-founding the Secret Polish Army resistance movement. In 1940, Pilecki volunteered[2]: 66 [3][4][5] to allow himself to be captured by the occupying Germans in order to infiltrate the Auschwitz concentration camp. At Auschwitz, he organized a resistance movement that eventually included hundreds of inmates, and he secretly drew up reports
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Witold Pilecki
Witek, Druh…
Witold Pilecki was born in Olonets – a town that lies in north-western Russia, within the territory of the Karelian Republic.
Witold Pilecki was born in 1901 in Olonets in northern Russia. Why was he born there? His family – both paternal and maternal – took part in the January Uprising of 1863 and faced repressive measures after its fall. His father, Julian Pilecki, an insurrectionist’s son, could not find a job in the territory of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Having finished his studies in Saint Petersburg, he worked as a forester in Karelia. The Osiecimskis – the family of Witold’s mother, Ludwika – also came to this area after the fall of the Uprising.
Witold had four siblings – two sisters, Maria and Wanda, and two brothers: Józef, who died at the age of five, and the youngest Jerzy. Ludwika sought to bring up her children in the Polish tradition; she made sure they learned Polish language and history. Witold recalled that after 1905, when Russification in the former Commonwealth became less intense, his parent
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Who was Witold Pilecki?
WITOLD PILECKI
CAVALRY CAPTAIN
(1901 - 1948)
Boy Scout, community leader, landowner and artist.
Officer of the Polish Army and a conspirator. Loyal fighter for an independent Poland.
After the outbreak of WWII, he took up the fight for his homeland. In November 1939 he co-founded the Secret Polish Army.
Between 1940 and 1943 he volunteered to become a prisoner of KL Auschwitz, where he established an underground organization and reported on the atrocities of the ruthless German oppressors. Having completed his mission in Auschwitz, he escaped and continued to fight.
He fought in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 and became a prisoner of German POW camps in Lamsdorf and Murnau.
Following his liberation, he joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West.
He returned to Soviet-enslaved Poland and continued his resistance work. Arrested by the communists,
he was subjected to brutal interrogations. After a show trial, he was sentenced to death and murdered on 25 May 1948. The burial place of Witold Pilecki has never been revealed.
He lived according to his
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