AUSCHWITZ.
On 19 September 1940 Witold Pilecki was allowed to be arrested voluntarily in a trap to scope Auschwitz. As Fairweather first heard of Witold Pilecki in 2011 in Iraq and Afghanistan. He worked there as a war correspondent. 1 writer told him about his journey to Auschwitz and about the conspiracy opposition there. That communicative shook him. It never occurred to him that there could be any resistance. In specified a place ?. This is how he found the way of Pilecki and fascinated with his character wrote a book .....
Writing the book was based on materials from archives not only in Poland, but besides in London, Washington, fresh York City, Tel Aviv and Switzerland, about 2,000 sources, besides on the accounts of the Holocaust witnesses more than 34,000 accounts, not yet published.
He spent 5 years tracking Pilecki's fate. Jack Fairweather is simply a British writer and award-winning author. Photoreprter and war correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan. The combination of specified different sources allowed to tell the communicative of Pilecki with details you will not find on the net or on Facebook.!
I wrote this article based on the book "The actual past of Witold Pilecki's Secret Mission" Like Fairweather.
You must be a complete fool! Who in full intellectual power would do specified a thing? Don't tell me you asked the Gestapo to send you to Auschwitz for a fewer years! As you say is true, you are an extraordinary hero, or a large fool." He spent almost 3 years in hell.
It was not his idea, the task was imposed on him, and Pilecki's dispute with a fellow conspiracy on the political orientation of their organization played an crucial role. In a way, the mission was an chance to get Pilecki out of Warsaw.
He understood that's what this was all about. Hence his decision to go to Auschwitz as a prisoner. Moreover, it was not only about the risks he had taken, but besides about the danger he might have brought to his family.
He wanted to get information on the operation of the camp and organize the resistance. He received the approval of Chief of the Armed Forces Union, General Stefan Rowecki "Grota". On 19 September 1940, the Germans hosted a large catch in Żoliborz, Grochów and Mokotów.
Pilecki stayed at the flat of Eleonora Ostrowska at 40 Polish Army al. on Żoliborz. He was captured in the apartment, Germany, and as Tomasz Serafinski in the night from 21 to 22 September 1940 he went to the camp. He became a prisoner with number 4859.
,,Transport enters the railway siding in Oświęcim It was night. The wagons are being opened. In the light of the headlamps, cars are emptied by batting. There are Germans standing around in black uniforms.
The cry of the Germans, the groans of the beaten and smitten prisoners, the shooting. I thought I was in hell. Behind the wires, in the large square, we were struck by another view. In a somewhat fantastic, creeping light from all sides of the spotlight, there were any kind of people. From behaviour alternatively like chaotic animals (I absolutely insult animals here, there is not yet a word in our language for specified creatures) Our heads were not only struck by SS flasks – something more was struck. Violently kicked into all our concepts to which we are accustomed on earth” This is how the captain described his first impressions after entering the camp.
COHESION
For all prisoners, the top torment was the appeal. There were times erstwhile it lasted until late night hours, especially erstwhile the camp crew couldn't account for their individual status. If there was winter, prisoners stood in thin denim in the cold, frequently without shoes.
When respective prisoners escaped in November 40, he and another prisoners had to stand in the rain with snow for 9 hours. Over 200 inmates did not last this punishment, but Pilecki persisted.
Witold Pilecki saw the killing of the transport of russian prisoners of war and thinks that this is due to the fact that they were not prepared for places in the camp. Then he sees the execution of judaic transport and thinks it was about taking their property.
He doesn't think they were just killed. It just couldn't fit his mind.
Camp functionaries served pseudogymnastics called "sport". It was a torment both in the summertime heat and in the winter: moving from place to place, jumping "frog", climbing a tree... Those who did not endure were beaten unconscious.
Serafiński camp number 4859 (under specified name he was arrested) suffered from starvation. est so scene in the book, erstwhile he's out there and his small girl Zosia notices many times that Daddy is looking for something in his pocket.
She asked him... Finally, she explains that she always has a crust of bread on her. It says so much about how much he was hungry in the camp –
Tragic sanitary conditions caused Witold to have typhus. The injuries caused by beating and frostbite caused abscesses and ulcers. The wounds did not heal due to deficiency of vitamins and there were traces of lice bites, fleas, bugs on the skin. There's this scene in the book where Pilecki lies in the haystack and drops hundreds of insects off the body at night and yet resigns- It's not gonna happen anyway.
I was very moved by the scene where Pilecki witnessed and which yet affected his decision to escape from the camp. He saw a family, possibly Polish, possibly Jewish. It was January-February 1943, evening. He saw by their faces that they knew they were about to be shot.
There was a boy at his son's age. Then last night, Witold couldn't sleep, couldn't forget the boy's face. He thought he had done nothing to save this 1 boy.
Another scene, as SS abuses Pilecki and another prisoners, forces them to “frog”, jump over and over again. Pilecki then recalls how before the war he saw in his village people bullying a captured animal. He remembers his howler before he died.
At the time, he thought it was an isolated case. In Auschwitz, he realized that this was human nature. Again, the strength of Pilecki is seen in this, who no longer has illusions about humanity, but inactive can see the good in people.
Disappointment, frustration. And anger. It's in his notes. He wrote 1 of the most beautiful things just before his arrest by the communists. It's just 1 side, but significant. It shows what was most beautiful about him.
He starts again with what happened in the camp, uncovering words with difficulty. And then, all of a sudden, it's like he'll never realize how a man can do that to another man.
He describes how he frequently sat in camp with his friends the night before they were executed. And everyone had the same regret: that he didn't give more of himself to another people...
Witold Pilecki's false identity was an accident. He found an identity card with the name of Tomasz Serafiński, hiding in Warsaw in the flat of doctor Helena Pawłowska.
Reserve officer Tomasz Serafinski went there before him, after the capital capitulation in 1939. He utilized this name erstwhile he was arrested by the Germans in September 1940 while trying to get to Auschwitz.
The gathering of Pilecki and Serafinski took place only after Pilecki escaped from Auschwitz. erstwhile he reached Bochnia, he requested contact with the Home Army Command. He was given the chance to meet with the deputy commander of the facility in Nowy Wiśnicz.
It turned out that it was a man whose identity had previously been accepted – Tomasz Serafinski, ps. Lisola. At that time, there was not only a gathering that was expected to be a large experience for Pilecki.
At the home of Tomasz Serafiński, in the alleged Koryznówka in Nowy Wiśnica, known as Jan Matejka's favourite vacation destination, Pilecki found safe shelter for over 3 months.
This is where he wrote the first version of his report. Here besides the artist Jan Stasiniewicz drew a double image of Witold Pilecki and Tomasz Serafinski.
MOVE OF OPPORTUNITIES AND REPORTS
For 3 years in the Auschwitz camp Pilecki organized a conspiracy grid and sent reports in which he described in item the criminal functioning of the camp. The first of them reached the capital in November 1940, and in March 1941 it was handed over to London by the courier chief of the General Stefan Rowecki's OGM "Grota".
Witold Pilecki appealed to the command for an attack on Auschwitz, which nevertheless was considered impossible by the AK forces. He wrote a detailed study on the camp, the alleged "Witold Report", which was transferred to London. The Polish government had unsuccessfully called on the British to bomb the camp.
Pilecki utilized a laundry commando whose members kept contacts outside the camp. His reports went to the General office of the AKZ and were the first reports on the situation in Auschwitz-Birkenau created from the position of eyewitness.
Witold Pilecki prepared for the underground any accurate reports on the camp and the Nazi genocide device – they were put into the hands of Polish emigration authorities.
Some doubted, others rejected them whole, others remained indifferent. The first reports of the inhuman destiny that Germany had prepared for the Jews were beyond the image of those who were not eyewitnesses to their sufferings.
Heroes risked everything to bear witness to the demolition of Western allies. At the hazard of their lives, they hoped that their sacrifice would aid halt Nazi crimes. They thought erstwhile the Allies found out about the genocide, they'd do anything to halt it. They didn't do anything.
Tell the planet about the Holocaust – it was the goal of the courier and emissary of the Polish Underground State Jan Karski. Karski and Witold Pilecki regularly reported on what was happening in occupied Poland.
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PHOTO EXPLOSED FROM judaic FEAR
That was mostly the western consequence to Pilecki's reports. The Vatican besides learned in the summertime of 42 about Aschitz and mass demolition but... He refused to hazard taking Hitler's wrath on the Church and Pius XII decided not to talk on this matter.
On 28 July 1943, Karski was adopted by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the United States. He convinced the Allies to send an ultimatum to the Germans – either halt killing on Jews, or bombs will fall on their cities.
But the U.S. leader ignored Karski's evidence and appeals. Jan Karski met many prominent characters in the United States and presented his study everywhere. However, his interlocutors could not (or would not) believe the eyewitness. The atrocities he spoke of seemed unbelievable to them.
Another witness of the Holocaust that reached the West was NAPOLEON SEGIEDA In reports sent by Polish diplomats, as well as representatives of judaic organizations, the first reports appeared in the mediate of August.
More complete information was provided by courier Napoleon Segieda, who stayed in the city from spring to summertime 1942. Oświęcim collecting information about Auschwitz and leaving Warsaw on 8 August 1942.
The road to Switzerland through Kraków and Vienna to England took him 5 days. At the beginning of September, reports based on reports from Segieda were already circulating among crucial figures of the Allied planet in Britain and the United States.
And what was the reaction to his reports? I quote from the book ,,,MSW from the Polish Government in the emigration recognized -Napelon fed us with amazing rumors erstwhile he returned from the country. We ignored them. Napoleon Segieda will not be a courier anymore ” Paweł Sidak of the Ministry of abroad Affairs sent specified a message to Warsaw!
It was said: , we have another priorities " Everyone knew about Aschwitz Switzerland, America, England, and Israel.
As a sign of the protest, Szmul Zigielbom - Secretary-General of the judaic Section of the Central Trade Union Commission, editor of the letter Arbeter Fragen, councillor of Warsaw and Łódź. Since 1942, a associate of the Polish National Council in London has taken his own life, but no 1 has cared...
Witold Pilecki with his reports and his individual raised hope and the will to fight in fellow prisoners His reports from hell itself on earth are a dramatic cry for help.
Despite the frightening content and numbers gassed, beaten and murdered in Aschwitz, aid never comes. Those on whom he counted could not or more likely not believe and help.
After completing the mission, threatened with arrest he fled Auschwitz on the night of 26/27 April 1943. He spent 947 days in camp hell.
In the spring of 1943 the Germans began working on the conspiracy in the camp. More and more members of the camp opposition fell into their hands. The Germans executed 54 prisoners.
Among those shot were members of the camp conspiracy, founded by Captain Pilecki. The decision was made to bring the “old” prisoners into the Reich. Then Pilecki decided to run.
Escape was possible thanks to the aid of colleagues from the camp conspiracy. During this time Witold Pilecki worked in a camp parcel house, Edward Ciesielski in a prison hospital, and Jan Redzej in a food warehouse close the camp kitchen.
Using conspiracy contacts, Pilecki allowed 2 another daredevils to enter the commandant employed on a night shift at the bakery in Oświęcim, Niwa, outside the Auschwitz KL area.
Poles pointed out that prisoners from this commandant are being locked up overnight in the bakery, and only 2 SS men supervised them. There were besides large iron doors in the building, through which you could get out. Redzej arranged a key for them.
The prisoners intended to escape in the last decade of April 1943. It was Easter then, and a large part of the camp crew would be on vacation.
On Christmas Monday, April 26, Pilecki and Ciesielski were transferred to block 15, where the bakers lived. The escape deadline was set for the night from 26 to 27 April 1943.
The night shifters Pilecki and Ciesielski were dressed in civilian clothing, on which they put camp beavers. Redzei was only wearing civilian clothes with red stripes on his coat and pants.
While Pilecki and Ciesielski were busy working at the bakery, Redzej pulled out the hidden key and proceeded to open the door. "Thanks to favorable circumstances – 1 of the overseeing SS men was busy writing a letter, and the another with food – all 3 approached the iron door, leaning on it with all their might. The next time they pressed, they yet gave up. They were free’
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Major Escape Points
* Oh, yeah * Escape from Auschwitz
* Oh, my God * Crossing the Sol and then Vistula
* Oh, my God * Crossing the border in Alwern
* Oh, my God * Passage of the Niepołomice Forest
* Oh, yeah * Arrival to Bochnia
* Oh, my God * Hiding in Corinth and fresh Cherry
Escapers headed east. By boat they sailed to the another side of the Vistula River. Then they took refuge in the woods, where they spent the day. They continued their journey in the evening. They crossed the border with the General Governorate.
A local priest helped them in Alwernia. They received a meal and a guide. They later walked through Tyniec, Wieliczka and the Niepołomicki Forest.
The refugees along the way met many kind people, but they were besides in danger. The most dangerous event survived in the Niepołomice Forest, where they unexpectedly encountered armed Germans.
It was May 1, 1943. Pilecki was then shot in the shoulder, but, like the another 2 escapees, he managed to escape successfully.
After this incident, escapees temporarily lost contact with each other. They met again in Bochnia, where the Obor household accepted them. Redzei arrived on May 1, the another day later.
Pilecki made contact with the command of the local AK station upon arriving in Bochnia. Leon Wandasiewicz, led the captain to Nowy Wiśnica.
There he met with a deputy commander. During the road Pilecki learned that the deputy commander was Tomasz Serafinski. He realized that he was the man under whose name he was in Auschwitz.
Serafiński lived in an property called Koriznówka. Pilecki was hiding there for almost 4 months. He wanted the AK to attack the camp and free the prisoners from it. The task did not gain approval. Polish troops were besides weak to conduct it.
AK's negative attitude towards the task made Witold Pilecki go to Warsaw. He reached the capital on 23 August 1943.
In Nowy Wiśnicz, he left a study that he wrote about the military conspiracy in Auschwitz immediately after escaping from this camp, in June 1943. The study was hidden in the ground and was not excavated until after the war.
For the escape of 3 prisoners, the camp authorities did not retaliate the prisoners.
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ROTMIST VITOLD PILECKI. REPORTS FROM WARSZAWSKI.
From 1943 to 1944 Pilecki served in branch III of Kedyw KG AK. He participated in the Warsaw Uprising. Initially, he fought as an average gunman in the company “Warsaw” and later commanded 1 of the branches of the Chrobry II group, in the alleged Witold Reduction. After the uprising, he was taken prisoner.
ARISATION IN ,, FREE POLAND’
In May 1947 he was arrested by the communist authorities. Why did Witold Pilecki gotta die? After the war, not all Polish patriots were executed. In 1948, at the court proceeding break, he managed to whisper to his cousin Ostrowska: “I can no longer live, I am finished. due to the fact that Auschwitz was a joke.” It was the brutal investigators from Rakowiecka.
The conviction was executed on 25 May 1948 in the Warsaw prison at Rakowiecka Street. He was murdered by a gunshot to the back of the head.
ROTMISTORY PROCESS AND MURDERERS IN TOGAS.
The captain's body was buried in the Link at the Warsaw cemetery Powązkowski. He was rehabilitated in 1990 and posthumously decorated, among others, with the Order of the White Eagle, and the Defence Minister appointed him as Colonel in 2013.
British historian Michael ft recognized Pilecki as 1 of the six bravest opposition figures in planet War II.
Ciesielski besides joined the activity of the AK in the Bochen district. He fought in the Warsaw Uprising, where he was wounded. After his surrender, he escaped from the transport of the prisoners.
He made it to Kielecownia. In the Boys' Battalions he saw the end of the war. Persecuted by communist authorities, sentenced to death penalty, he spent many years in Stalinist prisons. He died in 1962.
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