http://www.metafilter.com/tags/witoldpilecki Posts tagged with 'witoldpilecki' at MetaFilter. Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:56:45 -0800 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:56:45 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/75009/Witold%2DPilecki <a href="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/September-October-08/On-This-Day--Witold-Pilecki-Allows-Himself-to-be-Captured-by-the-Nazis.html">On this day in 1941</a> a man named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki">Witold Pilecki</a> deliberately got himself arrested and sent to Auschwitz. Pilecki was a spy sent in to investigate the camp and establish underground resistance cells. He sent <a href="http://witoldsreport.blogspot.com/2008/05/volunteer-for-auschwitz-report-by.html">reports</a> to Warsaw, which passed them to London. In 1942, his reports that prisoners were<a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERpilecki.htm"> being gassed </a>were not believed. Pilecki's extraordinary story was erased from after he was executed in 1948 as a anti-communist spy by his countrymen. Poland is now <a href="http://www.diapozytyw.pl/en/site/ludzie/witold_pilecki">trying</a> to restore his place in history. A <a href="http://www.moviesharkdeblore.com/html/death_of_captain_pilecki.html">movie</a> about his life was made in 2006. The Polish parliament is trying to make the anniversary of Pilecki's death <a href="http://www.polskieradio.pl/zagranica/news/artykul91121_European_Day_of_the_Heroes_Who_Fought_Against_Totalitarianism.html">a memorial of the struggle against tolitarianism</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.75009 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:56:45 -0800 auschwitz heroism holocaust witoldpilecki wwii up in the old hotel