A real hero - Witold Pilecki - A Volunteer for Auschwitz

My tribute to Witold Pilecki...A Volunteer for Auschwitz

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[blah1017]

God, everytime I read up on this guy's story I can't help but tear up.

What a hero, there are no other words to describe this man. He was one of the greatest heroes this world will ever know.

[jmm194709]

How different this man was from me and anyone I have known; how much better! Is one born with such energy & valor? Can one learn it?

[MaximusProteus]

@evillmonky ... you must be joking! Defiance is about the Jewish partisans who collaborated with the soviets, harrased and plundred local population and these who opposed they massacred, like in the Polish village Nailiboki.

Hollywood never did and will not do a movie about Pilecki or anything that pictures the Polish secret state, goverment on exile, army or the occupied country, except for holocaust of course. Honestly, i don`t care why.

[evillmonky]

@fourthskorpion I had no idea, I will look into obtaining copies of both books you mentioned.

[fourthskorpion]

According to the Auschwitz Museum the tattooing of numbers on prisoners did not start until the arrival of Soviet POWs at Auschwitz in 1941 almost a year after Pilecki's remarkable mission began. The tattooing of earlier numbered prisoners in the camp did not start until 1943 just before Pilecki escaped so it is highly unlikely he was ever tattooed! He never mentioned being tattooed in any of his 3 reports only that he had received an inmate number!

A truly heroic man & story nonetheless!!

[fourthskorpion]

@evillmonky Pilecki's heroism was the subject of a best-selling book in 1975 (well before the fall of the wall) published in English and Polish it was entitled: " Fighting Auschwitz : The resistance movement in the concentration camp." published in London by Friedmann, 1975. The author was Polish historian Dr.Jósef Garlínski. There is new book about Pilecki's Auschwitz report due out in April 2012—"The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery".

[evillmonky]

@ferdovit they did Defiance about the polish partisans. And one of the brothers has been charged with a sex crime. if they can make a hollywood blockbuster about them, they can do it about pilecki easily.

[evillmonky]

@measwel i like the spirit of your statement but unfortunately his story only came to light after the fall of the wall and even now it is not common knowledge. Poland has a history of being bullied and occupied so i cant place much stock in the survival of a free-poland.

[evillmonky]

@Pankracyogame He was executed by the communist. Sadly some were Jewish, but the overall idea is Poland was bullied by many countries over the years and under communist rule it didnt represent the true spirit of Poland he loved. Most polish jews were killed in the holocaust or left during.

[Glov00]

Chwała i wieczna pamięć bohaterom Polski jak Witold Pilecki !

Hańba zawszonym komuchom !

[AzzHunterbunny]

Biggest heroes of all, staid loyal to Poland till the end, If I ever could even be half of a man he was Id die as a happy man.

[Sebastianek1990]

@SemperFidelisPolonia buahahahah co za ironia losu :D