The volunteer : one man, an underground army, and the secret mission to destroy Auschwitz

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The volunteer : one man, an underground army, and the secret mission to destroy Auschwitz

Title remainder

one man, an underground army, and the secret mission to destroy Auschwitz

Statement of responsibility

Jack Fairweather

Creator

• Fairweather, Jack

Subject

• Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
• Pilecki, Witold, 1901-1948
• Warfare and Defence
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland

Language

eng

Summary

This is untold story of one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War. In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mission was to report on Nazi crimes and raise a secret army to stage an uprising. The name of the detention centre - Auschwitz. It was only after arriving at the camp that he started to discover the Nazi's terrifying designs. Over the next two and half years, Witold forged an underground army that smuggled evidence of Nazi atrocities to the West, culminating in the mass murder of over a million Jews

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 940.5'318'092
• 940.5'318'092
• 940.5'318'092
• 940.5'318'092
• 940.5'318'092
• 940.5'318'092
• 940.5318092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography