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    Witold Pilecki (Polish: [ˈvitɔlt piˈlɛt͡skʲi] ; 13 May 1901 – 25 May 1948), known by the codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh and Witold...
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    Witold's Report, also known as Pilecki's Report, is a report about the Auschwitz concentration camp written in 1943 by Witold Pilecki, a Polish military...
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  • Pilecka (born 1976), Polish diplomat Stan Pilecki (1947–2017), Australian rugby union player Witold Pilecki (1901–1948), Polish cavalry officer, intelligence...
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  • Witold Mroziewski (born 1966), Polish-American Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn Witold Pahl (born 1961), Polish politician Witold Pilecki (1901–1948)...
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    film Escape from Hell. Tracing the Steps of Witold Pilecki is dedicated to the escape of Witold Pilecki, Jan Redzeja and Edward Ciesielski from the notorious...
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    The Pilecki Institute (Polish: Instytut Pileckiego; full name Instytut Solidarności i Męstwa imienia Witolda Pileckiego, lit. Witold Pilecki's Institute...
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  • resistance organization formed by Witold Pilecki at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940. In 1940, Witold Pilecki, a member of the Polish resistance...
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  • of a report (also described as a diary) by Polish resistance fighter Witold Pilecki, an introduction written by historian Norman Davies and a foreword by...
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    II Europe.[a] On 9 November 1939, two soldiers of the Polish army – Witold Pilecki and Major Jan Włodarkiewicz – founded the Secret Polish Army (Tajna...
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  • reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged. 1940 – World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp to...
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    September 1940 Witold Pilecki, a Polish army captain, arrived in the camp. Using the name Tomasz Serafiński (prisoner number 4859), Pilecki had allowed himself...
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    Auschwitz became available to the Allies as a result of reports by Captain Witold Pilecki of the Polish Home Army who, as "Tomasz Serafiński" (serial number 4859)...
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  • Fairweather, a former Washington Post war correspondent, into the life of Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier and Home Army resistance fighter who infiltrated the...
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  • (born 1902) 1943 – Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (born 1888) 1948 – Witold Pilecki, Polish officer and Resistance leader (born 1901) 1951 – Paula von Preradović...
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    Harvard University Press, 1999; ISBN 0-674-07608-7, pp. 377–378. Rotmistrz Pilecki Wieslaw Jan Wysocki Gryf, 1994 page 244 Marek M. Kaminski. 2004. Games...
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    Claude McKay, Jamaican-born American writer and poet (b. 1889) May 25 – Witold Pilecki, Polish resistance leader (executed) (b. 1901) May 26 – Émile Gaston...
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  • Kabacki forest and Okęcie. On 25 May 1948, Śmietański personally executed Witold Pilecki, the founder of the Secret Polish Army and prominent member of the Armia...
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    actor (d. 1961) May 11 – Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988) May 13 – Witold Pilecki, Polish resistance leader (executed 1948) May 17 – Werner Egk, German...
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  • partisans Sonderkommando photographs Witold Pilecki Resistance movement in Auschwitz Military Organization Union Witold's Report Ghetto uprisings Warsaw Białystok...
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    Regiment Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann Antoni Pająk Witold Pilecki Tadeusz Piskor Władysław Belina-Prażmowski Stanisław Puchalski Władysław...
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    assisting Jews during the Holocaust List of Polish Holocaust resisters Witold Pilecki, who volunteered to Auschwitz to gather intelligence on the camp from...
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    "Rotamaster Pilecki Rotamaster Witold Pilecki - Biography -". Archived from the original on 2013-06-12. Retrieved 2015-05-26. "Capt. Witold Pilecki :: Against...
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  • Hitler had determined for them." Bibliography of The Holocaust Witold Pilecki Pilecki's Report Kárný, Miroslav. "The Vrba and Wetzler report," in Berenbaum...
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  • village and the estate of Witold Pilecki. It was destroyed by communists after the Second World War. Witold Pilecki (1901-1948 Pilecki Institute Marco Patricelli...
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    Polska; 56 minutes. Poland 2007. Cyra, Adam; Pilecki, Witold (2000). "II". Ochotnik do Auschwitz; Witold Pilecki (1901–1948). Oświęcim: Chrześcijańskie Stowarzyszenie...
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    situation in occupied Poland Pilecki's Report, aka Witold's report - report about Auschwitz written in 1943 by Witold Pilecki The Polish White Book - 1940...
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  • Germans fielded at least 8,000 men in the area to secure it. In 1940, Witold Pilecki, of the Polish resistance, presented to his superiors a plan to enter...
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  • Włodarkiewicz "Darwicz" – Chief of the Staff Cavalry Lieutenant Witold Pilecki "Witold" Lieutenant Colonel Władysław Surmacki [pl] "Stefan" In 1940, it...
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    Cyrankiewicz controversially not only refused an appeal of a death sentence by Witold Pilecki, a Home Army resistance fighter who infiltrated Auschwitz and is considered...
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    Jagmin-Sadowski Antoni Szylling Stanisław Taczak Wiktor Thommée Juliusz Zulauf Witold Pilecki, former prisoner no 4859 of Auschwitz under assumed name of Tomasz Serafiński;...
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