Archive for November 2024
The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz
(For high school students, teachers, college students, and adults). As one review of Jack Fairweather’s book notes, this is the true story of Witold Pilecki’s unprecedented heroism. In September 1940, he volunteered for a suicidal reconnaissance mission and allowed himself to be arrested by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz. There were informal reports of…
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