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The Man Who Sneaked Into Auschwitz
In September 1940, polish army captain Witold Pilecki didn't know exactly what was going on in Auschwitz, but he knew someone had to find out. As part of the polish resistance against the Nazis, he infiltrated into the concentration camp and quickly found out it was far worst from anything the Resistance had imagined.Over the next two years, Pilecki was assigned to backbreaking work, but he also managed to gather intelligence on the camp and smuggle messages out to the underground Polish army with prisoners who escaped, and laundry services delivered by Poles. Eventually, Pilecki reported "further stay here might be too dangerous and difficult for me", so he escaped through a poorly secured back door in a bakery. "Shots were fired behind us," he wrote, but they run fast enough to freedom. After his escape, Pilecki continued to fight in the underground, now against the new occupying regime, the Soviets, who eventually captured and killed the captain. |
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