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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Executed Polish women, Polish people executed abroad, Polish people executed by the Russian Empire, Witold Pilecki, Konstantin Budkevich, Danuta Siedzikowna, Emil August Fieldorf, Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Paul Jaworski, George Chapman, Samuel Zborowski, Tadeusz Pruszkowski, Alexander Danieliuk-Stefanski, Karol Kot, Zygmunt Padlewski, Franco de Franco, Konstanty Kalinowski, Peter Kudzinowski, Joseph Epstein, W adys aw Gurgacz, Maciej Rataj, Dawid Przepiorka, Stefan Aleksander Okrzeja, Katarzyna Weiglowa, Stanis aw Modzelewski, Henryk Hryniewski, Piotr O arowski, Rozalia Lubomirska, Zdzis aw Marchwicki, Joseph Silver, Jozef Unszlicht, Boles aw Mo ojec, Szczepan cibor, Barbara Zdunk, Karol d'Abancourt de Franqueville, Alfons Flisykowski, Romuald Traugutt, Marcin Kaspshak, Adolf Warski, Iwan Tyszkiewicz, Stanis aw Cz., Stanis aw Wawrzecki, Stanis aw Brzoska, Maksymilian Horwitz, Tomasz D bal, W adys aw Mazurkiewicz, Maciej Dziewo ski, Stanis aw Kunicki, Roman uli ski. Excerpt: Witold Pilecki (May 13, 1901 - May 25, 1948; Polish pronunciation: codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafi ski, Druh, Witold) was a soldier of the Second Polish Republic, the founder of the Secret Polish Army (Tajna Armia Polska) resistance group and a member of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa). As the author of Witold's Report, the first intelligence report on Auschwitz concentration camp, Pilecki's operation enabled the Polish government-in-exile to convince the Allies that the Holocaust was taking place. During World War II, he volunteered for a Polish resistance operation to get imprisoned at Auschwitz in order to gather intelligence and escape. While in the camp, Pilecki organized a resistance movement and as early as 1940, informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz atrocities. He escaped from the camp in 1943 and took part in th...
