• torture to Witold Pilecki, one of the most famous "Cursed soldiers" and the only individual who willingly went to Auschwitz Camp. Pilecki revealed no sensitive...
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    Regiment Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann Antoni Pająk Witold Pilecki Tadeusz Piskor Władysław Belina-Prażmowski Stanisław Puchalski Władysław...
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    film Escape from Hell. Tracing the Steps of Witold Pilecki is dedicated to the escape of Witold Pilecki, Jan Redzeja and Edward Ciesielski from the notorious...
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    controversially not only refused an appeal of a death sentence by Witold Pilecki, a Home Army resistance fighter who infiltrated Auschwitz and is considered...
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  • Witold Urbanowicz Antoni Walczak Zdzisław Walczewski Mieczysław Walentynowicz Jan Waliszkiewicz Zenon Werner Zdzisław Wijas Kazimierz Wilczewski Tadeusz...
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    Europe.[a] On 9 November 1939, two soldiers of the Polish army – Witold Pilecki and Major Jan Włodarkiewicz – founded the Secret Polish Army (Tajna Armia...
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    exaggerating Nazi crimes for propaganda purposes. In 1947, the Polish historian Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz gave an estimate of 780,000 murders, based on the accepted...
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    Star) Jan Machulski — Polish actor Juliusz Machulski — Polish director Zdzisław Maklakiewicz — Polish actor Janusz Morgenstern — Polish director (Commander's...
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  • enemies were sentenced to death on trumped up charges — among them Witold Pilecki, the organizer of the Auschwitz resistance. Leaders of the Home Army and...
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    (b. Josef Goldberg) (1945/47) Department for Training – headed by Mjr. Zdzisław Szymczak (1945-48/53) Department of Staff – headed by Col. Mikołaj Orechwa...
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  • Holocaust survivor, educator, and philanthropist Maurycy Orzech Witold Pilecki Konstanty Rokicki, Polish consul in Bern who forged Paraguayan passports...
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    Kowalskich" 2009 (dir. Arkadiusz Gołębiewski, Maciej Pawlicki). In 2019 Pilecki Institute launched a project commemorating Poles who were murdered for...
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    the course of the war. As early as 1940, Polish agents (including Witold Pilecki) penetrated German concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and informed...
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    prisons including those executed "in the majesty of the law" such as Witold Pilecki or Emil August Fieldorf. Around six million Polish citizens died between...
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  • (1967–1979) and federal president of the National Party (1987–1990). Stan Pilecki, 70, Polish-born Australian rugby union player (Queensland Reds, national...
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    the president of the Polish Historical Society. Pupils of his included Zdzisław Spieralski and Tomasz Strzembosz. Herbst was born in Rakvere, Russian Empire...
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    religious leader Witold Pilecki (1901–1948) Polish cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader, author of Pilecki's Report Tadeusz Mazowiecki...
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