Title: The Auschwitz Volunteer Beyond Bravery
Description: 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
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp), Officers, Underground movements, World War, 1939-1945, Biography, Armed Forces, World war, 1939-1945, underground movements, poland, War Underground movements, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Concentration camp inmates, Poland. Polskie Siły Zbrojne. Armia Krajowa, Poland