"THE AUSCHWITZ VOLUNTEER: BEYOND BRAVERY," Captain Witold Pilecki's most comprehensive report about his nearly three-year undercover mission as a prisoner at Auschwitz. Published in English for the first time. Translated by Jarek Garlinski. Introduction by Prof. Norman Davies. Foreword by Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland.
A New York Times "Editors' Choice." The Wall St. Journal calls it one of the "Five Best" books on wartime secret missions. A Featured Selection of the History Book Club®. A Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club® and the Military Book Club®.
World War II, German-occupied Poland: in September 1940, Polish Army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered for a potentially suicidal undercover mission for the Polish Underground -- to get himself arrested by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz as a prisoner. His mission: to smuggle out intelligence about this new German concentration camp and build a resistance organization among the inmates.
Pilecki's remarkable mission was intentionally suppressed by the postwar Polish communist regime for nearly fifty years, and is virtually unknown in the West.
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Companion book: "Fighting Auschwitz: The Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp" by Jozef Garlinski. Garlinski, a member of the Polish Underground, was himself a prisoner at Auschwitz. In this meticulously researched work, Garlinski traces the evolution and operations of the principal prisoner resistance organizations, spearheaded by Polish Army officer Captain Witold Pilecki, along with evolution of Auschwitz from its founding by the Germans as a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners to its expansion into a death camp for Jews.
"The definitive study of the topic." -- Prof. Antony Polonsky, Chief Historian, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University.
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