The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery
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by Jarek Garlinski
Pilecki is a shining example of heroism that transcends religion, race and time. After his escape from Auschwitz, Pilecki worked in intelligence with the Polish Home Army, fought in the Warsaw Uprising of , and was taken prisoner by the Germans. He ended the war in a German prisoner of war camp. This, tragically, became his final mission. Pilecki was arrested as a Western spy by the Polish communist regime, tortured, and executed in at age His heroic exploits were expunged from Polish history.
Now, for the first time, English-language readers will have a chance to discover, through his own words, this remarkable man who risked everything to organize against the unspeakable evil of Auschwitz and tell the world about the horrible realities of this now-infamous death camp.
This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Holocaust. When God created the human being, God had in mind that we should all be like Captain Witold Pilecki, of blessed memory. May the life of Witold Pilecki inspire us all to do one more good deed, of any kind, each and every day of our lives. Misconceptions about the Second World War in Europe appear to be endless; everyone, including the most advanced experts, can always learn something more and increase the precision of their understanding.
One basic misconception, for example, concerns the moral framework of the war; many Westerners imagine that the war in Europe saw just one evil regime, the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler, which was opposed by a coalition of democratic allies dedicated to freedom, law and justice. In reality, the largest combatant power of the war, the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin, despite its differences from Nazism, can only be included in the criminal, mass-murdering category.
As Captain Pilecki understood very well, the only valid moral stance was to oppose Nazism and Stalinism alike. Another common misconception concerns the scourge of the concentration camps.
Many Westerners continue to imagine that concentration camps were somehow a monopoly of the Nazis; they equally fail to make the important distinction between concentration camps, like Dachau or Majdanek and fully fledged death camps, like Treblinka. All the indications are that Soviet instruments of repression consumed more human beings than their Nazi counterparts. It is a poignant reminder of the double threat which Europe faced in the midth Century.
I myself became fully aware of the greatness of Witold Pilecki while conducting research on the Warsaw Rising of Only then did I realise that this was the same heroic character, who four years earlier had deliberately arranged to be arrested by the SS and be transported to Auschwitz.
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In , having engineered his escape, he wrote the first version of his Report on Auschwitz, which I had read and which had been the first of several attempts to inform the outside world of what was really happening. If ever there was an Allied hero who deserved to be remembered and celebrated, this was a person with few peers. Only when one grasps the true horror of his fate can one comprehend what the Second World War in Europe was really about.
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Overview In , the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Show More. Reading Group Guide During World War II, a time of unprecedented darkness on earth, heroic men and women rose up and, calling upon the highest resources of the human spirit, took action against evil. Preface Misconceptions about the Second World War in Europe appear to be endless; everyone, including the most advanced experts, can always learn something more and increase the precision of their understanding.
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Auschwitz was not yet an organized, industrial-production death camp, dedicated to killing millions of Jews as quickly as possible. But it was already designed to kill—by overwork, by starvation, disease and random, almost casual murder—the Poles who made up the early inmate population.
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That much was evident to Pilecki on his arrival, when the new prisoners were driven from their freight cars by rifle butts and guard dogs. One man was told to run to a post; when he did, the SS machine-gunned him. Pilecki, as revealed in his report—made all the more affecting by its stark, just-the-facts tone—responded magnificently to his situation, organizing underground support groups for the prisoners, smuggling out information, and even managing to escape in After the war, Pilecki secretly returned to his country to investigate the Soviet occupation.
In , he received the Silver Cross of Merit for his involvement in the community and social work. Pilecki, Witold, A prisoner revolt had never been realized as the allied forces had omitted to drop weapons or to support the uprising in any other way. Not a book for the younger reader, but one that could supplement a study of World War II or European history for the high school or college student. This is actually a report that Pilecki sent to his superiors after he had been in Auschwitz - having managed to get himself arrested and taken there voluntarily to report on the conditions.
This book is the first English translation of a expanded version. In the foreword, Poland's chief rabbi states, If heeded, Pilecki's early warnings might have changed the course of history. Pilecki's story was suppressed for half a century after his arrest by the Polish Communist regime as a Western spy. He was executed and expunged from Polish history.
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Pilecki writes in staccato style but also interjects his observations on humankind's lack of progress: We have strayed, my friends, we have strayed dreadfully Pilecki is the only man known to have volunteered to get himself arrested and sent to Auschwitz as a prisoner. His secret undercover mission for the Polish Underground: smuggle out intelligence about this new German concentration camp, and build a resistance organization among the inmates with the ultimate goal of liberating the camp. Barely surviving nearly three years of starvation, disease and brutality, Pilecki accomplished his mission before escaping in April