Biblioteki Polonii Amerykańskiej
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The Alfred Jurzykowski Memorial Library of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America		 Biblioteka Marjanczyków Polskiej Fundacji Kulturalnej
The Marjanczyk Library of the Polish Cultural Foundation
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Library of the Kosciuszko Foundation

The Auschwitz volunteer : beyond bravery / by Captain Witold Pilecki ; translated by Jarek Garliński.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Polish Description: liv, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781607720096
  • 1607720094
  • 9781607720102 (pbk.)
  • 1607720108 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 940.53/1853858 23
LOC classification:
  • D805.5.A96 P565 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Captain Pilecki's covering letter to Major general Tadeusz Petcynski -- Captain Witold Pilecki's 1945 Auschwitz report.
Summary: 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.
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Books Books The Marjanczyk Library of the Polish Cultural Foundation D805.5.A96 P565 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan ML19090056
Books Books The Marjanczyk Library of the Polish Cultural Foundation D805.5.A96 P565 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan ML18110048

"This translation is based on the original typescript of Captain Witold Pilecki's 1945 Report held at the Polish Underground Movement Study Trust in London."--Page xix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Captain Pilecki's covering letter to Major general Tadeusz Petcynski -- Captain Witold Pilecki's 1945 Auschwitz report.

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.

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