Polish Independence Day in Auschwitz
11th November 1941: The SS murder 151 Polish prisoners in Auschwitz on the day they commence executions at the 'Death Wall'
Witold Pilecki, was a founder member of the Polish Resistance movement - the Tajna Armia Polska, TAP (Secret Polish Army) - in Nazi Occupied Poland. Then in 1940 he volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz in order to report on conditions inside the camp and to organise a clandestine resistance movemen…
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