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Witold Pilecki: Anti-Nazi Hero Who Volunteered for Auschwitz and Was Executed by Soviets
Witold Pilecki, a Polish resistance hero who voluntarily entered Auschwitz, became one of the most extraordinary figures of the Second World War before being executed by the communist regime. Witold Pilecki was one of the most extraordinary figures of the Second World War—a man who voluntarily entered Auschwitz to expose the truth about Nazi crimes from within. Born in 1901 into a Polish noble family displaced by Russian repression, Pilecki grew up shaped by war and resistance. He fought in the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 and later built a quiet family life with his wife Maria Ostrowska…
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