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Witold Pilecki

Polandb. 13 May 1901 · d. 25 May 1948Add to favourites

In September 1940 he deliberately let himself be captured and sent to Auschwitz, where he organised an underground resistance network. He broke out of the camp in April 1943, contacted Home Army units and compiled Witold's Report on the camp. He fought in the Warsaw Uprising (August–October 1944), was arrested by the communist authorities in May 1947 and executed on 25 May 1948 at Mokotów Prison in Warsaw.