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Witold Pilecki: Auschwitz Volunteer Who Warned The World

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In 1940, Witold Pilecki, a Polish Army officer and member of the Polish underground resistance, volunteered to be captured by the Gestapo. There were rumours that Auschwitz was a place of shocking brutality, but the Polish underground leadership needed someone on the ground to find out the real extent of the horrors taking place. Leaving…

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The Volunteer with author Jack Fairweather and Clare Mulley

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Writer and broadcaster, Clare Mulley, joins the Costa Prize award–winning author and journalist Jack Fairweather, to discuss the story of Witold Pilecki, a Polish cavalry officer and resistance leader during the Second World War. Pilecki was an amazing character whose life we should all know more about; a man who willingly volunteered to be imprisoned…

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Jan Szczepanik, a genius from Galicia
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General Maczek: Tenaciously, yet chivalrously

an interview with Jacques Wiacek
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A ration card for survival - rationing in Communist Poland
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733–1795: Light and Flame

Review of the book by Richard Butterwick