Witold Pilecki Essay

Witold Pilecki was born on May 13, 1901, at Oloniec Russia. His family comes from an area called Nowogródczyzna. But due to partaking in an uprising in January 1863, the Pilecki estate was confiscated. Julian Pilecki, Witold’s Father married Ludwika Oswiecimska and had him and his siblings. His siblings were Maria, Jozef, Wanda, Jerzy. Jozef, unfortunately, died at the age of 5. The family traveled to Sukurc and Mohylewczyzna to keep the family ties alive and to even learn the polish language. But because of how bad the schools were and how often people used Russian affected the Pilecki to move out of Oloniec. So the family moved to Vilnius in 1910, but Julian stayed behind due to financial problems. Witold after moving started his education at what’s been called an elementary
He went to an SS roundup and got himself arrested. He was then taken to Auschwitz where he had to survive harsh punishment, lice, severe hot and cold weather, and pneumonia. But while he was in Auschwitz he created multiple underground resistance groups. His first reports were sent in 1940, they were sent by radio that Witold and a fellow ZOW had handmade. Also during his imprisonment, he kept a journal. He writes “The game which I am now playing In Auschwitz was dangerous.” “This sentence really does not convey the reality; in fact, I had gone far beyond what people in the real world would consider dangerous.” But even that sentence seemed nothing like he was going through. During his time he was surrounded by 7,000 SS troops, 8,000 prisoners died each day by either being gassed or experimented on. But by 1943 german troops found out that there was a resistance. The germans started to round up the resistance and started executing them. Still no one knew that Witold was actually the leader. But on Easter Sunday Witold did something that almost nobody had done, he escaped. With him were very crucial documents about the killings and