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Witold Pilecki, The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, Aquila Soldier

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Schulte, Tristen
Yager/Wach
9th English
2/13/18
Moral courage of Witold Pilecki

Witold Pilecki once said “A man fighting for his life can do more than he ever imagined he could”(Pilecki, Witold, The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond bravery, Aquila Polonica Publishing, 2012. Paperback.). Pilecki did many things I feel that fits the definition of moral courage. This all happened during WWll a depressing time in the world. This topic has really impacted me in many ways. By examining his acts of moral courage, how it relates to WWII, and how it impacted me it is clear this man was extremely courageous and crazy. Pilecki Spent his life fighting for the freedom of Poland in a militia. In my opinion, one of his most courageous things was obtaining false papers to get into Auschwitz and smuggled some of the camps darkest secrets to the Allied armies. He had a plan to free the prisoners of …show more content…

Pilecki sneaking into Auschwitz speaks for itself, I mean its based in a concentration camp so it has to be about the holocaust. “ So they didn’t let anybody else off. I can’t live like this, I’m finished. Auschwitz was easy” (Pilecki, Witold, The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond bravery, Aquila Polonica Publishing, 2012. Paperback.). The quote does not make much sense, but I think it means that the torture they put him through before his death was worse than being in Auschwitz for 2.5 years. When he was fulfilling his orders he was captured and tried for spying for the government. Used it ties back because at the time everyone was fighting against communism and during world war to everyone was fight against fascism. This is also connected to the holocaust because there were uprisings on almost every country that Germany captured jut like . The holocaust impacted me in many ways it was a truly a bad time in our world and was something that when the news got out made everyone furious at the Nazi

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