Witold Pilecki
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Other names: Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafinski, Druh, Witold Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh, Witold
Job / Known for: Cavalry officer, intelligence agent
Left traces: Witold's Report on Auschwitz
Born
Date: 1901-05-13
Location: PL Olonets
Died
Date: 1948-05-25 (aged 47)
Resting place: PL Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw
Death Cause: Executed by the communist regime
Family
Spouse: Maria Pilecka
Children: Andrzej Pilecki, Zofia Pilecka
Parent(s): Julian Pilecki, Ludwika Pilecka
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Witold Pilecki was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader. As a youth, he 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, he volunteered 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 detailing German atrocities at the camp, which were smuggled out to Home Army headquarters and shared with the Western Allies. After eventually escaping from Auschwitz in April 1943, Pilecki fought in the Warsaw Uprising of August–October 1944. Following its suppression, he was interned in a German prisoner-of-war camp. After the communist takeover of Poland, he remained loyal to the London-based Polish government-in-exile. In 1945, he returned to Poland to report to the government-in-exile on the situation in Poland. Before returning, Pilecki compiled his previous reports into Witold's Report to detail his Auschwitz experiences, anticipating that he might be killed by Poland's new communist authorities. In 1947, he was arrested by the secret police on charges of working for "foreign imperialism" and, after being subjected to torture and a show trial, was executed in 1948. His story, inconvenient to the Polish communist authorities, remained mostly unknown for several decades; one of the first accounts of Pilecki's mission to Auschwitz was given by Polish historian Józef Garliński, himself a former Auschwitz inmate who emigrated to Britain after the war, in Fighting Auschwitz: The Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp (1975). Several monographs appeared in subsequent years, particularly after the fall of communism in Poland facilitated research into his life by Polish historians.
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