Captain Witold Pilecki. This courageous Pole fought the Germans in 1939, joined the resistance and let himself be captured in order to infiltrate Auschwitz concentration camp. For three years he gathered information which was smauggled out until he feared being uncovered. He managed to escape from the bakery where he was working and got back to Warsaw where he joined the Home Army and fought in the Warsaw Uprising. He was captured by the Soviet authorities and executed in This image shows his mugshot from Mokotów Prison, Warsaw, 1947

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