Witold Pilecki's Report — Auschwitz Protocols

As World War II engulfed Europe, the Allies learned of German atrocities at the Auschwitz concentration camp from a remarkable source: A Polish army captain named Witold Pilecki had volunteered to enter the camp in 1940 in order to gather intelligence and to organize its prisoners.

Using a false identity card, Pilecki let himself be captured during a Warsaw roundup and became inmate 4859 at Auschwitz. Over the next two years, as he witnessed the horrors unfolding there, Pilecki prepared the camp’s inmates for an uprising, distributed extra food, and even built a secret radio transmitter to communicate his findings, urging his superiors to attack and liberate the camp.

Pilecki’s report, known to historians as Witold’s Report, together with two other documents created by ex-prisoners, forms the Auschwitz Protocols – the complete and ultimately credible data on the biggest death camp in history. The version of the report from 1943 was presented to the British Army's command but they thought it was exaggerated and rejected the Home Army’s suggestion that the camp should be liberated as soon as possible.

The hoped-for attack never came, and Pilecki finally escaped the camp in 1943, after 945 days. He went on to participate in the Warsaw Uprising, but in 1947 he was arrested by the Stalinist secret police, accused of spying, and executed.
Right after being sentenced to death Pilecki said:
"So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live any more after what they've done to me.
Auschwitz was just a trifle."
His final resting place is unknown.

Poland’s communist regime suppressed his story until 1989, and his Auschwitz report was not published until 2000. But today he is regarded as a heroic figure in Poland — in 2006 he received the Order of the White Eagle, his country’s highest decoration.

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