OLSZTYN | Rotmaster Witold Pilecki – Forever in the Memory of Poles

Rotmaster Witold Pilecki is 1 of the most crystal and heroic figures in planet history. He was a man who voluntarily crossed the gates of hell, becoming 1 of the six bravest people of the European opposition during planet War II. His life is an absolute embodiment of courage, love for Homeland, and steadfast humanity.

In September 1940 he was deliberately allowed to arrest the Germans during a catch in Warsaw. He did this to accomplish a mission almost impossible: to infiltrate the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. On the site, he founded the conspiratorial Union of the Military Organization, bringing aid to fellow prisoners and sustaining their will to survive. For nearly 3 years, he collected evidence of German genocide, which he secretly transmitted to the West in the form of shocking documents, known present as Pilecki's Reports on Wikipedia.

After a bravado escape from the camp in 1943, he continued to fight – he fought in the Warsaw Uprising, and after the war he remained faithful to free Poland, opposing russian domination.

Unfortunately, alternatively of meriting honors, he suffered a tragic destiny from a communist panic apparatus. He was arrested, subjected to cruel torture and sentenced to death in a show trial. Just before the execution of his sentence, he confessed to his wife that “It was a joke” compared to the methods of security.

Sentence was given on May 25, 1948 in the Mokotov prison. Although the communists tried to erase his name from his memory and hid the place of his burial, the memory of the hero survived. The message he left behind, "I have tried to live so that in the hr of death I may rejoice alternatively than fear," inspires generations to this day, and the Rot master himself remains a symbol of pure, steadfast patriotism.

The detailed calendar of his life and the full past of the conflict for independency can be found in the authoritative Biography of Witold Pilecki on the website of the Institute of National Memory.

Piotr Bieranowski

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