Tag: Witold Pilecki

  • Polish hero Witold Pilecki went to Auschwitz in 1940 – voluntarily

    Polish hero Witold Pilecki went to Auschwitz in 1940 – voluntarily

    It is hard to imagine how a 39-year old father of two deliberately walked into a razzia of the SS on the 19th of September, 1940. As a Polish army officer he couldn’t expect a gentle treatment, but Witold Pilecki wanted personally to find out want happened to all the Jews who were captured and transported to concentration camps. Although Pilecki expected harsh…