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NCLUDES BONUS VIDEOS I Winner Silver Award Winner 2012 PROSE Award 2013 Benjamin Franklin Awards Biography & Autobiography Autobiography/Memoir THE AUSCHWITZ VOLUNTEER: BEYOND BRAVERY AQUILA POLONICA® T A HE USCHWITZ V OLUNTEER Beyond Bravery byCaptain Witold Pilecki Translated byJarek Garliński AQUILA POLONICA (U.S.) LTD. 10850 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 300, Los Angeles, California 90024, U.S.A. www.AquilaPolonica.com Copyrights © 2012 Jaroslaw Garlinski and Aquila Polonica (U.S.) Ltd. All rights reserved. The moral right of the author has been asserted. First published 2012. Published in both hardcover and trade paperback 2012. eBook edition published 2014. ISBN (Cloth): 978-1-60772-009-6 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ISBN (Trade Paperback): 978-1-60772-010-2 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ISBN (eBook): 978-1-60772-014-0 Printed in the U.S.A. Library of Congress Control Number 2012931262 eBook conversion: Sellbox.com Acknowledgements: Cover design, interior book design and maps in this Aquila Polonica edition are by Stefan Mucha, and are reproduced with permission. Photographs and other illustrative ma- terial are reproduced with permission, and are from the collections of the following: The Archive of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (“ABM”); Bundesarchiv; Jarek Garliński (“JG”); Stefan Mucha (“SM”); Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe (“NAC”); Zofia Pilecka-Optułowicz and Andrzej Pilecki (“Pilecki Family”); The Polish Underground Movement (1939-1945) Study Trust (“PUMST”); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (“USHMM”); and Yad Vashem (“YV”). The publishers wish to extend special thanks to Zofia Pilecka-Optułowicz and Andrzej Pilecki for sharing their family photos for use in this book, and for the cooperation of the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (“IPN”) and the Muzeum Woli (“MW”) in providing access to such photos. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration is abbreviated as “NARA.” The views or opinions expressed in this work, and the context in which the images are used, do not necessarily reflect the views or policy of, nor imply approval or endorsement by, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Publisher’s Note: Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for insertion in a magazine, newspaper, broadcast, website, blog or other outlet. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content. The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. The game which I was now playing in Auschwitz was dangerous. This sentence does not really convey the reality; in fact, I had gone far beyond what people in the real world would consider dangerous... — Captain Witold Pilecki v EUROPE 1939 © 2012 Aquila Polonica vi COntEnts Chapter Page Introduction by Norman Davies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Foreword by Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Translator’s Introductory Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix Publisher’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii Selected Highlights from Pilecki’s 1945 Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix List of Maps . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi Historical Horizon Captain Witold Pilecki: The Report, the Mission, the Man . . xxxiii Captain Pilecki’s Covering Letter to Major General tadeusz Pełczyński . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Captain Witold Pilecki’s 1945 Auschwitz Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 COntEnts Continued Appendices 1 Glossary of English, German and Polish Terms and Acronyms . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 2 German-Language Positions and Ranks at Auschwitz Mentioned by Pilecki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 3 Index of People and Places Referred to by Pilecki with Either a Code Number or Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 4 Chronology of Pilecki’s 1945 Report . . .. . .. . . . . .. . . . . 355 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 Discussion Questions . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 Praise . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 About the Author and Translator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 Also From Aquila Polonica Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 viii POLAnd–sEPtEMbER 1939 1st of september 1939 – German forces invade Poland from the north, west and south. 17th of september 1939 – Soviet forces invade Poland from the east. 28th of september 1939 – Germany and the Soviet Union agree on the demarcation line partitioning Poland between them. ix OCCUPiEd POLAnd 1939–1941 Territories of Poland annexed by Germany. German-administered Generalgouvernement. Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union. These territories were later occupied by the Germans following the invasion of the Soviet Union by Axis forces in June 1941. Poland pre-September 1939. x
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