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The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery

Captain Witold Pilecki

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.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · medium confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: History -> HistoryAward Category: PROSE Award for Biography and Autobiography -> BiographyHolocaustWorld War IIIntelligence, Secrecy & SurveillanceWar & Military Strategy

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PROSE Award for Biography and Autobiography2012WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Witold Pilecki93%

  2. 02 Central places

    • Auschwitz80%
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    • Warsaw62%

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

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