Witold Pilecki
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Witold Pilecki was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader.
Pilecki in a pre-1939 photograph
Witold Pilecki as KL-Auschwitz prisoner, KL Number 4859, 1940
Pilecki, Mokotów Prison, Warsaw, 1947
Pilecki in court, 1948
Polish resistance movement in World War II
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In Poland, the resistance movement during World War II was led by the Home Army. The Polish resistance is notable among others for disrupting German supply lines to the Eastern Front, and providing intelligence reports to the British intelligence agencies. It was a part of the Polish Underground State.
Sequentially from top: soldiers from Kolegium "A" of Kedyw on Stawki Street in Wola district, during the Warsaw Uprising, 1944; Jewish prisoners of Gęsiówka concentration camp liberated by Polish Home Army soldiers from "Zośka" Battalion, 5 August 1944; Polish partisans of "Jędrusie" unit in Kielce area, 1945; Old Town of Warsaw in flames during Warsaw Uprising
Image: Warsaw Uprising by Deczkowki Kolegium A 15861
Image: Jewish prisones of KZ Gesiowka liberated by Polish Soldiers of Home Army Warsaw 1944
Image: Warsaw 1944