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The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz

JL;DR SUMMARY Witold Pilecki, a Polish war hero, undertook an extraordinary mission during World War II by voluntarily entering Auschwitz to gather intelligence and organize resistance from within the concentration camp. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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AuschwitzHolocaustCourageNazi OccupationTotalitarianismCommunismWitold PileckiPolish ResistanceWarsaw UprisingEyewitness Reports

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Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"In May 1948, a Polish war hero was led from his prison cell and executed by the communist authorities in Warsaw."
Oświęcim, Lesser Poland, Poland
"By 1940, rumours were spreading about a growing concentration camp near the town of Owicim."

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