| Collection type | Library |
|---|---|
| Author | Pilecki, Witold, 1901-1948, author.; Hussain, Eva, translator.; Derwinski, Krzyszof, translator.; Glinka, Jacek, editor.; Nowak, Andrzej, editor.; Czaplicki, Wojciech.; Koc, Marcin.; Musial, Zofia.; Lemanm, Zbigniew.; Kwiatkowska-Dublaszewski, Zofia.; Pla |
| Call Number | 940.531853858 P637 |
| Document type | Monograph |
| Year | 2017. |
| Pagination | 70 pages, 22 unnumbererd pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), colour facsimilies, colour m |
| Publisher | Andrzej Nowak and Jacek Glinka, Centrum Poligrafi Sp. z.o.o. |
| Note | "Pilecki Project Committee"--Title page. Project coordinators: Andrzej Nowak, Zofia Musial, Jacek Glinka; Project contributors: Zbigniew Lemanm, Zofia Kwiatkowska-Dublaszewski, Bogdan Platek, Dr Zdzislaw Derwinski, Andrzej Balcerzak, Wojciech Balcerzak, Izydor Marmur, Hubert Blaszczyk. (3z(BWitold Pilecki (1901-1948). On 19 September 1940, with the approval of his superiors, Pilecki took on a false identity of Tomasz Serafinski, walking into a street roundup (lapanka) at Aleje Wojska Polskiego in Warsaw with the aim of entering the Auschwitz concentration camp. He ended up in the second Warsaw transport, which arrived in Auschwitz on the night of 21 September 1940, he was registered as inmate number 4859. In Auschwitz, Pilecki organised an underground Union of Military Organisation (Z wiazek Organizacji Wojskowej, also known as Zwiazek Organizacji Wojskowych). The organisation provided support to fellow inmates, obtained and distributed rations and clothing, passed on information about Auschwitz to the outside world, distributed news t o the inmates, preparing the forces to be ready for an uprising when the time came.(S3(B Translated from Polish. |
| Place made | [Ferntree Gully, Victoria] : Warsaw, [Poland] : |
Report W : KL Auschwitz 1940-1943 / by Captain Witold Pilecki ; translator: Eva Hussain ; biography: publishers, translated by Krzyszof Derwinski ; editors: Jacek Glinka, Andrzej Nowak ; computer processing of text; Wojciech Czaplicki, Marcin Koc.
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Subjects
- Pilecki, Witold, 1901-1948.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) History.
- Union of Military Organisation (Oswiecim, Poland) History.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Concentration camps - Poland - Oswiecim - History.
- World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements - Poland.
- Soldiers - Poland - Biography.
- Poland - Armed Forces - Officers - Biography.
- Australian