The Auschwitz volunteer beyond bravery/ Captain Witold Pilecki. Translated by Jarek Garlínski
Captain Pilecki's covering letter to Major general Tadeusz PetcynskiCaptain Witold Pilecki's 1945 Auschwitz report.
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Sprache: | eng |
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Los Angeles, Calif.
Aquila Polonica
2012
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Zusammenfassung: | Captain Pilecki's covering letter to Major general Tadeusz PetcynskiCaptain Witold Pilecki's 1945 Auschwitz report. September 1940. Polish Army officer Witold Pilecki deliberately walked into a Nazi German street round-up in Warsaw and became Auschwitz Prisoner No. 4859. He had volunteered for a secret undercover mission: smuggle out intelligence about the new German concentration camp, and build a resistance organization among prisoners. Pilecki's clandestine intelligence, received by the Allies in 1941, was among earliest. He escaped in 1943 after accomplishing his mission. Dramatic eyewitness report, written in 1945 for Pilecki's Polish Army superiors, published in English for first time. --amazon.com September 1940. Polish Army officer Witold Pilecki deliberately walked into a Nazi German street round-up in Warsaw and became Auschwitz Prisoner No. 4859. He had volunteered for a secret undercover mission: smuggle out intelligence about the new German concentration camp, and build a resistance organization among prisoners. Pilecki's clandestine intelligence, received by the Allies in 1941, was among earliest. He escaped in 1943 after accomplishing his mission. Dramatic eyewitness report, written in 1945 for Pilecki's Polish Army superiors, published in English for first time. --amazon.com |
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Beschreibung: | Aus dem Poln. übers |
Beschreibung: | LIV, 401 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
ISBN: | 9781607720102 978-1-60772-010-2 9781607720096 978-1-60772-009-6 |