Pilecki's The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery

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The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, was an original Auschwitz Report which was translated from Polish to English by Jarek Garliński. The author of the report was Auschwitz prisoner 4859 also known as Captain Witold Pilecki. Pilecki was a soldier of the Second Polish Republic, founder of the Secret Polish Army a resistance group in Poland and was a member of the underground home. Pilecki was also an author of Witold’s Report which was a report about the German concentration camp, Auschwitz. In September of 1940, at the age of 39, Captain Witold Pilecki walked into a German roundup in Warsaw with the goal of going to Auschwitz and infiltrating the camp. When he first presented the idea and goal of infiltrating the camp, gathering information