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The Auschwitz Volunteer
- Beyond Bravery
- Narrated by: Marek Probosz, Jarek Garlinski, Ken Kliban, John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Summary
In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and report from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in 1941, were among the first eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz atrocities: the extermination of Soviet POWs, its function as a camp for Polish political prisoners, and the "final solution" for Jews. Pilecki received brutal treatment until he escaped in April 1943; soon after, he wrote a brief report. This book is the first English translation of a 1945 expanded version. In the foreword, Poland's chief rabbi states, "If heeded, Pilecki's early warnings might have changed the course of history." Pilecki's story was suppressed for half a century after his 1948 arrest by the Polish Communist regime as a "Western spy". He was executed and expunged from Polish history. Pilecki writes in staccato style but also interjects his observations on humankind's lack of progress: "We have strayed, my friends, we have strayed dreadfully.... We are a whole level of hell worse than animals!"
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- Martin
- 08-07-16
Spine chilling stuff
I'm not sure I can call this book good. It's well written but has a terrible content. Perhaps we should all listen to it. I've read a lot of ww2 books but this really made me stop and think, about how fortunate we are compared to these poor people.
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- Pafko
- 18-10-20
horror report from the real hero
The short report from the real hero. I loved it. it helps you to re value what is important in life.
The speaker could be a native English, it would help a lot.
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- Andy Round
- 13-03-18
Riveting
A very well written account of a man's personal survival in a world of darkness
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- Fat lady
- 25-06-17
Essential Reading
Depressing, enlightening and educational, this is perhaps the most thorough first hand account of the treatment suffered by so very many in Auschwitz.
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- A
- 23-01-17
Absolutely astonishing.
It's hard to put into word how amazing, horrifying, enlightening, and at times uplifting this entire book is. It gives an genuine and daily insight into the evolution and growth of a place of mechanical death. On top of that, it gives a small, and personal insight into how people coped with day to day problems.
There isn't a human on the planet who shouldn't read this book.
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- mrs a j harding
- 21-06-18
Repetitive
This book I found a little boring as the same sentences were repeated often. The numbers used to describe people was quite tiresome. I story never really got going and there was no action.
The narrator had a very monotone voice which got on my nerves in the end so I didn’t finish the book.
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