- with Michael Tyrpa, the initiator of social action, "Recall of Captain" ("Let's Reminisce About Witold Pilecki") and the originator of the establishment on May 25 the European Day of the Heroes Fighting of Totalitarianism, talking to Natalia Julia Smith.
You are the chairman of the Foundation Judaeorum Paradis, who has since 2008 been conducting a public campaign "to recall Captain." The aim of the project is widely understood as a promotion of Witold Pilecki, its ideals and achievements. Could you tell us who he was Captain Pilecki and why should I remind of him? I bet that some of our readers have not heard about this form or knows very little about it.
Pilecki is one of the greatest figures in our history. By "we" I mean both the history of the Poles, as the history of Europe, Christianity and the world. Biography of Captain Pilecki to some extent, is typical of the generations born in captivity , okutych in powiciu. the other hand, is absolutely unique. Witold Pilecki - soldier of the War of Independence in 1920 and defensive war in September 1939, scout, lancer, conspirator, concentration camp inmate, an insurgent. But the husband and father, social worker, a farmer-landowner, a deeply religious Catholic, and finally, the poet and painter. The only man who voluntarily undertook the mission to infiltrate a German concentration camp. Founder and leader of the Military Organization in Auschwitz. Witold Pilecki It is thanks to the Allies from the outset and in a way the very heart of darkness , learned the nature and size of the German genocide. At the end of World War II, is still often described as the "liberation", Witold Pilecki was the victim of Communist atrocities and murder of the court. After the interrogation, during which tortured him in an unimaginable way (torturers from UB, inter alia, his nails pulled out), Captain uttered the sentence: "Auschwitz was a trifle," ... And today, in 2011, this hero is someone widely unknown in the world! Ba! There is something unrecognizable in his homeland, which owes so much to him. And our grassroots, non-political citizens' initiative, which three years, consistently, "recalls Captain" is fought by politicians and officials maintained with taxpayer and subject to censorship in the supposedly concerned for the common good of the media ...
When and under what circumstances have you learned about the form of Witold Pilecki? You heard of Captain as an adult man, or the memory of this hero was cultivated in the Lord's family?
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learned as dwudziestoparolatek, in the first half of the 90s the historical references in the publication, who accidentally fell into my hands (I can not remember the title). Immediately puzzled me that the hero of this rank is someone widely unknown. Amazement grew over time, when I realized that year that runs from the fall of communism was a period when they come into adult life, successive generations of Poles who have never even heard the name of one prisoner in the history of volunteer and creator of the underground in Auschwitz! Most young people who were born after 1989 had never heard of the man, whose format and merit in its own way appreciated Communists - scoring Witold Pilecki in the head in prison Mokotow evening of May 25, 1948
Does the desire to promote a Pilecki appeared spontaneously in the Lord? Or maybe the idea of \u200b\u200binauguration of the "recall of Captain" was a lengthy, in-depth reflection?
surprise, which I mentioned, accompanied by a more acute sense of shame to be so. elite, whose negligence in this field can not be overstated. And when I first read "Report Witold" in 1945, I realized that something needs to be done. And not only in Poland. During the promotion of Captain biography published by the Christian Association of Auschwitz Families, which probably in 2005 took place in the museum, Army, Captain promised the children - Sophie and Andrew Pilecki, that I would do my best to form and certificate Volunteer to Auschwitz to extract from the Universal oblivion. Inaugurated in January 2008 - in conjunction with the 60th Witold Pilecki's death anniversary and the 65th anniversary of his escape from Auschwitz - social action, "Recall of Captain" ("Let's Reminisce About Witold Pilecki"), this is about to serve. Captain must bring of universal oblivion. The entire global village! And in a way true to its heritage, in line with the message "Report Witold" from 1945
Why did you choose to resemble just about Witold Pilecki, and not some other forgotten hero? What factors decided that it considered Mr. Captain for his portrayal of important and interesting than others?
been decided by the combination of factors. The most important was said, a unique feature as a hero. Witold Pilecki, a biography of someone in some way similar to the history of such heroes, such as "Nil", "Kotwicz" "Firewall", "Zo" and so many other forgotten, accursed, nameless .. On the other hand is the only person in history who volunteered (!) Was in the German factory of death. On the spot, in that "anus mundi," Pilecki created a resilient conspiracy prisoners, and after the abolition of the German collective responsibility for the escape of prisoners, threatened dekonspiracją, escaped. After many adventures (described, moreover, in the "Report Witold"), happily returned to Warsaw, submitted a report to command Army about how the situation in Germany's largest factory of death, and persuaded to perform an action that oswobodzi prisoners. Rotmistrz also fought in the Warsaw Uprising, where he became famous bravado, just command and special care for young soldiers. The latter turned up to him as "Dad." After completion of the Rising he was a POW camp in Murnau, where the Americans liberated it. After the war, as a member of the organization deeply zakonspirowanej "NO" and the command of General Anders returned to his homeland to look at new systems of the Soviet. His epic has ended, as I mentioned in a Warsaw prison at Rakowiecka, May 25, 1948 (...)
The full interview is available at:
http://njnowak.salon24.pl/286899, Witold -Pilecki-pattern-universal
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