Witold Pilecki: Doing Everything to Liberate Oppressed People

Witold Pilecki was a man who infiltrated Auschwitz because of conspiracies that the germans had gas chambers and morges in there executing the jews. Witold wanted to go inside to see what they were doing but he could not get the mission signed off but at the time they thought that it was P.O.W . Camp he finally got permission to go and get captured in one of the street roundups he found out that the camp was far from what the resistance thought "Together with a hundred other people, I at least reached the bathroom" Pilecki Auschwitz report reads. "Here we gave everything away into bags, to which respective numbers were tied. Here our hair of head and body were cut off, and we were slightly sprinkled by cold water.

I got a blow in my jaw with a heavy rod. I spat out my two teeth. Bleeding began. From that moment we became mere numbers — I wore the number 4859." witold believed that the purpose of auschwitz was the food rations you could live for only 6 weeks or you would half to steal or kill someone else to survive.Here's with Pilecki's description of what a German officer told him: " 'Whoever will live longer — it means he steals. You will be placed in a special commando, where you will live short.' This was aimed to cause as quick a mental breakdown as possible.” He was put to back breaking work and he found out that they make the poles wash the laundry for the others which in turns you could sneak a letter to the escaped prisoners and they would send the letters to witold commanders. They were in disbelief when he told them about what was going on . "The underground army was completely in disbelief about the horrors," Storozynski explains. "About ovens, about gas chambers, about injections to murder people — people didn't believe him.

They thought he was exaggerating." He was in the camp for three years before he could escape . soon he found out how a life as the number is. "Together with a hundred other people, I at least reached the bathroom," Pilecki Auschwitz report reads. "Here we gave everything away into bags, to which respective numbers were tied. Here our hair of head and body were cut off, and we were slightly sprinkled by cold water.

I got a blow in my jaw with a heavy rod. I spat out my two teeth. Bleeding began. From that moment we became mere numbers — I wore the number 4859. "Pilecki also hoped to organize an attack and mass escape from the camp. But no order could be procured for such a plan from Polish high command. "And in London," Storozynski says, "the Polish government in exile told the British and the Americans, 'You need to do something. You need to bomb the train tracks going to these camps. Or we have all these Polish paratroopers — drop them inside the camp. Let them help these people break out.' But the British and the Americans just wouldn't do anything." he soon started to plan on how to get out “He planned an escape through a poorly secured back door in a bakery, where he'd managed to get a job. With a few other inmates, he ran into the night."Shots were fired behind us," he wrote. "How fast we were running, it is hard to describe. We were tearing the air into rags by quick movements of our hands." After his escape, Pilecki continued to fight in the underground. But after the war, the Germans were replaced by a new occupying regime — the Soviets.

Pilecki was again asked to gather intelligence, this time on the ways in which the communists were establishing themselves in Poland. Not very many people have heard about him and the big role that he had on stopping the germans. Even though his story has been revealed we still have some stuff to find out it about witold pilecki. "Having a beautiful wife and two kids he loved dearly, he decided to leave them behind and go to Auschwitz." Probosz says. "Human beings were the most precious thing for Pilecki, and especially those who were oppressed. He would do anything to liberate them, to help them."