In September 1940, Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered for a secret undercover mission as a prisoner at Auschwitz—to smuggle out intelligence about the camp and build a resistance organization among the prisoners. He accomplished his mission, surviving starvation, disease and brutality for nearly three years before escaping.
Pilecki’s report on his Auschwitz mission, lost for more than fifty years, has recently been published in English for the first time as The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery.
Join us for a multimedia presentation about Pilecki and his Auschwitz mission with dramatic readings from Pilecki’s report by actor Marek Probosz, film star of The Death of Captain Pilecki. Introductory and transitional narration by Terry Tegnazian, President of Aquila Polonica Publishing.
Professor Patryk Połeć, University of Ottawa, Department of History, will moderate the event.
Free, Open to the Public. RSVP by Friday, Oct. 31: ottawa.press@msz.gov.pl or (613) 789-0468 ext. 24
More information: the Polish Embassy in Ottawa
