Polish Prisoners Sentenced to Death - Executed Polish People, Witold Pilecki, Emil August Fieldorf, Samuel Zborowski, Eligiusz Niewiadomski (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Executed Polish People, Witold Pilecki, Emil August Fieldorf, Samuel Zborowski, Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Dawid Przepirka, Maciej Rataj, Wadysaw Gurgacz, Henryk Hryniewski, Piotr Oarowski, Zdzisaw Marchwicki, Bolesaw Moojec, Szczepan cibor, Jzef Unszlicht, Joseph Silver, Janusz Walu, Alfons Flisykowski, Adolf Warski, Stanisaw Wawrzecki, Stanisaw Cz., Stanisaw Brzska, Maciej Dziewoski, Stanisaw Modzelewski, Wadysaw Mazurkiewicz, Henryk Walecki. Excerpt: Witold Pilecki (May 13, 1901 May 25, 1948; Polish pronunciation: codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiski, Druh, Witold) was a soldier of the Second Polish Republic, the founder of the Secret Polish Army (Tajna Armia Polska) Polish resistance group and a member of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa). As the author of the first intelligence report on Auschwitz, Pilecki's operation enabled the Polish Government in Exile to convince the Allies that the Holocaust was taking place. During World War II, he volunteered for a Polish resistance operation to get imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp in order to gather intelligence and escape. While in the camp, Pilecki organized a resistance movement and as early as 1940, informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz atrocities. He escaped from the camp in 1943 and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. He remained loyal to the London-based Polish government in exile and was executed in 1948 by the communist secret police Urzd Bezpieczestwa on charges of working for "foreign imperialism," thought to be a euphemism for MI6. Until 1989, information on his exploits and fate was suppressed by the Polish communist regime. His life is currently being commemorated in coin form by the Polish government for the 65th anniversary of the lib... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=824265