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Remembrance day: Pilecki volunteer to Auschwitz, 3 events
Meetings in Rome, Cesena and Vignola, focus on Polish hero
24 January, 12:06
(ANSA) - ROME, JAN. 24 - Polish hero Witold Pilecki is the
undisputed protagonist of three events scheduled for the Shoah
Remembrance Day in Rome, Cesena and Vignola (Modena). Cavalry
lieutenant Pilecki voluntarily gave himself up to the German
occupiers in September 1940 to be deported to Auschwitz. He was
on a secret mission on behalf of the Polish underground army: he
had to collect and disseminate information on what was happening
behind the barbed wire fences and set up a resistance network.
He stayed in the concentration camp for almost a thousand days,
risking his life every day, managing to escape in April 1943.
His first report on Auschwitz was delivered in London in March 1941. From that moment on, the Allies were aware of what Auschwitz was and of what was happening in the ''extermination factory''. But initially they couldn't believe what Pilecki reported. Witold Pilecki died in 1948, aged 47, executed with a pistol shot in the back of his head after being sentenced to death in Communist Poland. This 'unusual' patriot is remembered on Thursday, January 25th at 3:30 pm at the Embassy of Poland in Rome, in a meeting promoted by the chargé d'affaires Marta Zielinska-Sliwka in order to present the ''Witold's Report'', the detailed report that Pilecki wrote in Italy in 1945, summarizing his experience at Auschwitz. The meeting will be attended by Pilecki's great-grandchild, Krzysztof Kosior and by Italian historian Marco Patricelli, who first in Europe wrote a biography of the Polish hero, published by Laterza, translated into several languages and best-seller in Poland.
On Friday 26 at 10, in the hall of the Malatesta Library at Cesena, the book ''Volunteer to Auschwitz - A true story'', attended by Kosior and Patricelli.
On the Remembrance Day, January 27, the Sala dei Grassoni in Rocca di Vignola will host the international conference ''Volunteer to Auschwitz - The humanitarian value of Witold Pilecki's mission'', attended by the consul general of the Republic of Poland Adrianna Siennicka, the mayor of Vignola Simone Pelloni, the mayor of Savignano sul Panaro Germano Caroli and the president of the Via dell'Ambra association Dorota Wisniewska.(ANSA).
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His first report on Auschwitz was delivered in London in March 1941. From that moment on, the Allies were aware of what Auschwitz was and of what was happening in the ''extermination factory''. But initially they couldn't believe what Pilecki reported. Witold Pilecki died in 1948, aged 47, executed with a pistol shot in the back of his head after being sentenced to death in Communist Poland. This 'unusual' patriot is remembered on Thursday, January 25th at 3:30 pm at the Embassy of Poland in Rome, in a meeting promoted by the chargé d'affaires Marta Zielinska-Sliwka in order to present the ''Witold's Report'', the detailed report that Pilecki wrote in Italy in 1945, summarizing his experience at Auschwitz. The meeting will be attended by Pilecki's great-grandchild, Krzysztof Kosior and by Italian historian Marco Patricelli, who first in Europe wrote a biography of the Polish hero, published by Laterza, translated into several languages and best-seller in Poland.
On Friday 26 at 10, in the hall of the Malatesta Library at Cesena, the book ''Volunteer to Auschwitz - A true story'', attended by Kosior and Patricelli.
On the Remembrance Day, January 27, the Sala dei Grassoni in Rocca di Vignola will host the international conference ''Volunteer to Auschwitz - The humanitarian value of Witold Pilecki's mission'', attended by the consul general of the Republic of Poland Adrianna Siennicka, the mayor of Vignola Simone Pelloni, the mayor of Savignano sul Panaro Germano Caroli and the president of the Via dell'Ambra association Dorota Wisniewska.(ANSA).
