WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Warsaw’s mayor has unveiled a monument to a World War II hero who volunteered to go to Auschwitz and informed firsthand on the atrocities there but later was killed by the communist regime.
Witold PILECKI Polish resistance volunteer in German Nazi death camp Auschwitz, killed by communists.https://t.co/ADYQH60p4q via @youtube
— Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (@JSaryuszWolski) May 13, 2017
The memorial for Capt. Witold Pilecki is located near the place where in 1940 he let himself be caught by the occupying Nazi Germans. It was a step toward becoming an inmate of the Auschwitz death camp.
Pilecki’s descendants joined hundreds of Warsaw residents and authorities at the ceremony Saturday.
On the birthday anniversary of capt. Witold Pilecki, more about resistance movement in Nazi German Auschwitz camp https://t.co/RDn0HeCjVx pic.twitter.com/hapUoyKI2d
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) May 13, 2017
Pilecki wrote reports from Auschwitz before fleeing in 1943. As a freedom fighter, he was caught and executed by the communist government imposed on Poland after the war.
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