“Superbly written and breathtakingly researched, The Volunteer smuggles us into Auschwitz and shows us—as if watching a movie—the story of a Polish agent who infiltrated the … Witold Pilecki's autobiography (The Auschwitz Volunteer) was hidden in the Russian archives until 1989 and is now available to English language readers. In his new book, The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz, veteran foreign correspondent Jack Fairweather has unearthed the lost story of Auschwitz … Pilecki was a Polish army captain who volunteered at age 39 for one of the singular missions of World War II: to get into Auschwitz. The Volunteer by Jack Fairweather review – the hero who infiltrated Auschwitz This astonishing account of Witold Pilecki, a member of the Warsaw resistance who tried to … [Image: cover of The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery.]
In 1946, Poland's Ministry of Culture and Art recognized the need to preserve the site of so much horror for memorial and educational purposes, and set to work on a museum. Ochotnik do Auschwitz/Volunteer for Auschwitz - W. Pilecki ("Let's Reminisce About Witold Pilecki") Witold Pilecki was born in Poland in 1901. The hope was that he would report on conditions in Auschwitz as well as organize an uprising by the prisoners to bring the camp down. The Auschwitz Museum acquires the second part of the archive concerning the Ładoś Group The Memorial acquired original documents of the second part of the so-called Eiss Archive. The new material about Polish army officer and partisan Witold Pilecki reached Fairweather in 2011 when he heard about: The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp (the setting of Jack Fairweather's riveting history The Volunteer) was liberated by the Soviet Army on January 27, 1945. The Volunteer (2019) by Jack Fairweather is the incredibly moving account of Witold Pilecki, a member of the Warsaw resistance during WW2 who voluntarily went into Auschwitz concentration camp in September 1940 to set up a resistance cell, report back to the outside world, and to incite a rebellion. In 1940, when the Germans established a concentration camp at Auschwitz, Pilecki was "volunteered" by his underground superiors to be rounded up and become a prisoner there. The Auschwitz Volunteer is a newly available English translation of a report written by Witold Pilecki, a Polish military officer, in the late summer of 1945 about the 3 years he spent inside the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1940-1943. Volunteer For Auschwitz Concentration Camp - The story of Captain Witold Pilecki who volunteered to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in order to gather information about Nazi crimes for the Allies. Captain Witold Pilecki was captured by the communist Polish Secret Police (the … We are also here to acknowledge the publication for the first time in English of an extraordinary historical document, a firsthand account of life in what has been described as hell on earth, written by a true hero, Polish Army Captain Witold Pilecki. Captain Witold Pilecki, a Catholic Pole and patriot, volunteers in 1940 to go under cover in Auschwitz to report back first hand intelligence to the exiled Polish government in London. When the German Army invaded the country in September, 1939, Pilecki joined the Tajna Armia Polska, the Secret Polish Army. The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz (British title) is a 2019 book which presents for the first time in English detailed research by British writer Jack Fairweather, a former Washington Post war correspondent, into the life of a Polish war hero who was previously relatively unknown outside of Poland. "The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery". The Polish Corps then sent Pilecki back to Warsaw, where he went undercover and delivered information about the communist takeover. The report became the book The Auschwitz Volunteer, from which a great amount of the information known about Pilecki and his experience is taken.