The Soldier Who Voluntarily Became a Prisoner in Auschwitz
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Nazi troops invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, despite the best efforts of Captain Witold Pilecki and his fellow Polish soldiers. On November 9th of that same year, Witold and Major Wlodarkiewicz founded the Tajna Armia Polska (TAP or Polish Secret Army), an underground organization that eventually became consolidated with other resistance forces into The Home Army.
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that's Jewish gratitude
Poland invaded by Germans*
Nazism - is an ideology
You are 32 years old
When people didn't believe him about the camps, and years later discovered them, he came up with a few other witnesses, and said "Witold you so"
He knew where he was going
Don't worry about your pronunciation, polish is hard af. Thank you for taking your time to explain just a lil piece of Polish history. We often get forgotten about.
Please forgive any mistakes, I'm not native english speaker.
Much love from Poland
Goerge Jay ?
Goerge Jay
Excuse me what country is not being torn apart by terror attacks and rapes?
sudokuzcalkami
Don't listen to the haters. Poland is the only country in Europe with any kind of sense right now. While others are being torn apart by migrants Poland will survive.
Long live Poland!
Goerge Jay Heeey how is complaining about poles because high supreme britcunts cannot make any dirty job huh
sudokuzcalkami: In the USA we are beginning to learn of the greatness of Poland and Polish Heroes.
Inmate in hell or a hero prison?
Thank you Sabaton for introducing me to this brilliant man. And also thank you Witold Pilecki. Salute to you.
Shinku Kirito Ichika yes
INMATE 4859!
Soldier in auchwitz who knows his name?
Who hides behind 4859?
@@ethan-ps9pm locked in a cell, waging war from the prison, hiding in auschwitz, who hides behind 4859
Polish people are one of the most exquisite I've encountered in my life!
Greetings from an Italian
Witold Pilecki was the most badass human that ever walk on this planet. This man was a real hero. They should make a movie about him. I wish to be at least 5% that brave as Witold Pilecki. He's one of the most respected people in Poland but he should be respected and remembered in every country.
woah dude dont take the title from pilsudski man
vod.tvp.pl/video/smierc-rotmistrza-pileckiego,smierc-rotmistrza-pileckiego,21765409
@Got Kowal Might be not Hollywood.
swedish power metal band Sabaton made a song to honored witold in their 2014 album "Heroes" on the song "Inmate 4859"
ArthronOfFir3 INMATE IN HELL OR A HERO IN PRISON
Terje Svensson LOCKED IN A CELL WAGING WAR FROM THE PRISON
Raccoon King HIDING IN AUSCHIWITZ WHO HIDES BEHIND 4859
Is there any historic event Sabaton have not covered yet?
Sabaton is awesome!!!!!
what a great guy.. just wow..
A true hero
DangerDolansAss *german death camp.
My God, this man's courage is off any chart. God Bless him.
I feel deeply touched by this man's story who fought against all the odds for a free Poland.
Greetings from Germany. Niech on spoczywa w pokoju!/Friede sei mit ihm!/Rest in Peace!
And may he be remembered/möge er in erinnerung bleiben/niech zostanie zapamiętany... After denying him everything he earnestly fought for, for so long...That's one thing that world can still do for him...
Actually he fought for liberty of Jews and to stop genocide not to free Poland.
@@vladimirlenin693 it was very close, because in free Poland there wasn't a systematicall Jew exterminations
He fought in AK during and after the war he was fitghitng to make Poland free again
@@123pik1 actually there was a systemicall Jew extermination in Poland, but Pilecki was one of the few that really wanted to help the jews.
@@vladimirlenin693 there were many in Poland that helped Jew, there was an organization- "Zegota", which was helping Jews to survive, many Polish families was killed for hiding Jews
There were many that wanted to help Jews and in Aushwitz also the maina part were Polish citizens (Jews and ethnically Poles)
I wasn't just few, there were many people helping Jews
for hiding Jews in Poland there was a death sentence for entire family, not only adults but also children
and it wasn't Poland, it was Germany, occupied Polish terrain, but in that time it was Germany not Poland
He was a real hero, Having Polish ancestors this makes me happy to see it seen by more people.
Ramski - Likewise. My family came to America around the time of the First World War because they wanted to avoid the war-hungry Europe. They were VERY right to leave.
GuyNamedSean indeed. my great grandad come over in the 30s his brothers all where in the war.
Ramski my family came to America during World War II to escape from Poland
Let's hope Poland has erected a statue of him in his honour, or at the very least dedicated a some sort of museum to him.
Simon R The word erected xD aaa.
It is stories like this that make me wonder what kind of person would I be under the same circumstances. I fear not as noble or committed as I would like.
wysiwyg43 Today few polish citizens would behave like him, he was just raised in noble family i guess (i forgot this from history class sorry) and he really loved his motherland
Idd, I feel the exact same way. I'm not sure if I would dare to print a pamphlet or even talk to friends. Preparation is key, and to hope I won't need it. But I promised myself that if I don't dare to take the action I feel I should, I'll at least find someone who is taking action and help them however I can.
Eric Stone it depends on if you train them or not
Well good! Please don't be "noble"! You'd be wasting your life away. You have one life and the only happiness you will ever experience is your own. Do what makes YOU happy, even if it is unethical or everyone else suffers as a result. I'm serious. And if you don't see the truth in this, you are lost and brainwashed by society's constant praise of heroism and martyrism.
Lucky our forefathers didn't think the way you do, or Hitler would have won for sure. As the saying goes: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
Why hasn’t this been turned into a movie. This is a fascinating story.
Jan III Sobieski the most wanted polish king on the world I can’t tell if you are being sincere or are just being a anti-Semitic jerk
annoythedonkey There is no bigger antysemithic nation then Israel. They just hate Plestinians which are semithic people. Besides Jews always hated Poles. Bronisław Geremek a Jew and later Polish parlamentarist after surviving II WW cythe his family journal :" We hate you Polish people even more nie as you will live better life then we." Stop telling bullshit as you know nothing about Polish-Jewish relationship and history.
Nieczerwony all I said is I could not tell if they were being serious...
The fact that not only Jews were prosecuted by nazi germans in WW2, but also people of other beliefs and nationalities, doesn't fit the western narrative. That way Israel can be the sole "victim" and demand reparations from any other country that was involved in WW2.
annoythedonkey - There are thousands of interesting biographies from the war. It’s lucky that some get picked out.
poor Poland - stuck between 2 psychopathic doctrines, yet still, a birthplace of heroes...
and plumbers
@@drayhudson3776 plumbers earn a lot of money
@@drayhudson3776 plumbers are heroes mate - hygiene.
That's why is a birthplace of heroes. Fight or die.
and cleaning ladies
This guy had brass balls. I'm glad I watched this.
Steel balls more like it
Titanium*
You made a mistake. He didn't have brass balls. He had balls made of diamond-encrusted carbon nano-tubes dipped in molten titanium!
I belive that steel balls are harder and damn.. he had made them from dimond. Badassery at it s finest. Shame how he ended but still he held his chin high in face of death.
How have I not heard of this Polish hero before now?
Paradox Gaming Because now it is poor etc, man read some shit bout Poland 400 yrs ago, we were biggest country in Europe except Russia obviously and we were granary of Europe delivering thousands of tonnes of wheat to west
because poland cannot into space
becasue "only Jews were victims and the Polish help the Nazis", didn't you know?
There was no Polish puppet government... The General Government was German jurisdiction.
there was no puppet government! poland was one of few, if not the only occupied country, where there was no official cooperation with the nazis. individuals who did cooperate where considered traitors by the underground gov and often sentenced to death by the resistance. other instances of aiding the nazis was the the fear of terror; whole families or even villages where wiped out if some one helped hiding Jews (and still Poland holds the biggest number of Yad-Vashem Institute honorables), despite that, today some for-profit Holocaust Corp. Organization openly accuses Poland for cooperation with the Nazis (they never use the word "German", there were only Nazis and Poles) and also want billions of dollars reparations for the jewish property lost (number pulled out of ass and the lost was casued by the Germans and later by the Soviets during nationalizations, also most of polish citizen communists were Jews)
I'll tell you such a fact. Hollywood directors flew to Pilecki's family home, they wanted to make a film about him, provided that the family would agree that they would portray him as of Jewish descent in the film. Witold Pilecki's family refused for obvious reasons.
What a hero. People like that should be remembered forever.
Well they wont be becouse poland isnt a large country like the usa and isnt very important so peole ignore us
@@justanobody4883 As long as the Polish remember Polish Heros. It shouldn't matter.
The Polish people were acknowledged by my father as some of the bravest. This documentary highlights just one such man. Blessings and peace to Poland from UK
Our Polish Citizens have Joint almost or all ally armies in the second world war. It was joint consensus of all to help beat the crap out of Germans for taking our home from Us. Which is why joining ally army seemed to be the most reliable way to do just that. Even Russians have made polish army regiments under their command from Polish prisoners they have taken to labour camps. In UK you had polish pilots fighting against Germans with RAF. From what I heard they weren't allowed to join in Victory parade after the war couse your governemnt was Ashamed that they backstabeed Polish soldiers by giving away Poland under Russian occupation. By the way.. I am dissapointed in what was done to Poland, but I can understand it. They didn't want to anger a Tiger after fighting with a Lion and all of those countries wanted peace for their citizens as fast as possible and giving Poland to Russia might be a small price to pay. Only a little pricle in your conciousness that you did something bad.. but ultimately for greater good of your own people. Ultimately we were allies on paper and paper can be burnt and thrown away. Like Hitler with Stalin. Mussolini and Hitler etc. Peace treaties and allies mean nothing if you don't have confidence to win with their enemy without much of harm done to you. Thats how it is. Thats the ugly side of politics.
@@mariow7818 I am sorry for what my ancestors did to your ancestors Mario and I sincerely hope that both we and our countrymen can be friends and move on together
Blessings and peace
@@georgealderson4424 I hope for that too. I do not hold any grudge to people I only heard about from history books. Especially not to people that are their descendats. Its pointless and only creates more hate and bitterness. If I am not angry at Germans, then being angry at English citizens is even more so pointless. I am just dissapointed that our history is like this and hope for it to only be better. In unity is strenght and we should find it in our differences too. London is a good example of multicultural city. We should be like that in every country. Welcoming of those different than US but upholding our base line of values and laws. Love and peace from Poland!
@@mariow7818 💜
My school never taught this in history, this is the first time I ever heard of him. What an amazing story.
Western education is full of lies and propaganda. It's not Your fault.
SENSE OF LIBERTY and how is it in their agenda to silence this story specifically? You’re a bit off topic.
PuraguCryostato Someones been watching to much PragerU....that is not true. I wish it was true but not lmao are you dumb?
James Antoni Senior I wasnt attacking. PragerU says that apparently education is controlled by the left, and that it sucks and we need to change. But this is honestly not true
@@Anon72005 xd said joseph stalin.
Wow what a guy, a man of true dignity and honour, more people should know his name, I’m glad I do now.
Poles in general are so brawe, not only Witold. Their history is so amazing. Look at their uprising in Warsaw. They fought on even though they knew that no help was coming from the allies.
They did not know this, they counted on the help of their allies. The matter was decided because Churchill had already secretly reached an agreement with Stalin. They were simply betrayed.
Polish destroyer Piorun charged the Bismark and traded fire with it for an hour, reportedly signaling to the Bismark "I am a Pole" with signal lights for the entire engagement.
Actually we hoped that Russian army will come to aid but it didn't. Russians waited on the opposite side of the Vistula River for the Uprising to fall and bleed out.
@@marcjamaa6370 They didn't want to risk their army for someone else. I get them in this regard. Besides that.. This uprising was a failure because we counted on someone else from the beggining. We were back stabbed so many times in this war that counting on Russians after we were backstabbed by their joint invasion on Us was even more foolish idea. I get their idea that riding into heavlily bombarded city under enemy occupation to save civilians that in all honesty aren't even your civilians is suicidal and stupid. This is why they waited for Poles to bleed out and for Germans to be tired after fighting with Rebel Polish army and Polish citizens. We as Poles were too proud to admit that we were weaker. We wanted to free Warsaw of German occupation and welcome Russian army into Polish city as allies and guests. Not as liberators. It backfired when Hitler in his rage and humilitation concentrated his army and its forces on Warsaw and its People. Our people. We weren't prepered in the least for such fierce fight against Natzis. We have bet on that they would have left Warsaw as Russian army was few kilometers away and Germans would back off without much of a fight to conserve their strenght for Russians but we have stuck a stick in a Hornets nest thinking it would be only bees at most. We, Poles have a romantic streak of uprisings and patriotic ideals that without much planning are doomed for failure. We rise up, we gather. We beat some ass only to get beaten in the end. It happend so many times in our history that I wonder why they kept repeateing similar mistakes. Like Dying for a country is better than Living for it? I get it, sure. Its romantic and brave to do so but without good leadership at the top and good organization it always ends up in failure. Of course huge part of it is that we went against empires of the time. So it was always a fight of David against Goliat. Our poorly equipped rebel army against regular trained army of empires. In this case we were again between Germany and Russia and we wanted to carve our own little pice of land only to spit in their faces but it backifired heavily on US.
@@mariow7818 I think that's a bit of a harsh and reductive view of Polish Nationalism. You ignore some pretty important nuances and just generalise to prove some vague point that Poland should not have defended their right to exist? They've had a normal share of good and bad leaders in history, as well as corruption and benevolence. Not really more or less than other countries. As for the uprising, the people were desperate, starving and on the precipice of annihilation and I imagine they just hoped the Russians wouldn't be as bad as the Gerries because, ever so technically, they fought with the allies at that time.
This man is a LEGEND! The bravery and risks he took should never be forgotten, thanks for sharing his story.
What baffles me the most is how no one is commenting about him saying the soviet prison was even worse... He had spent 3 years in Auschwitz and still called it a trifle compared to the soviet prison, but no one here talks about the soviet cruelties. Interesting...
Twan van der Donk because this is a video about him in auschwitz and not a documentary about his life.
No, he was speaking of the torture. He was brutalised in the camp but not to the same extent as he was when tortured by Soviets.
The Communists were criminals as well, but as far as I understand in Auschwitz he was not a special figure and just one of the many to die eventually, while in the Soviet hands he was a "target". I tend to believe that in a specially designated Gestapo prison life would be quite similar to the Soviet one, as long as interrogation and brain-washing were the trade.
Twan van der Donk Funny how Liberal politics work.
I remember often hearing that soviets were worse than germans. Germans worked like a cruel machine, everything was very systematic and strangely lawful. The red army on the other hand were often described as wild beasts ravaging the land, stealing food, killing random people, raping and pillaging.
On 8 May 1947, Pilecki was arrested by agents of the Ministry of Public Security which was headed by Stalin's "right hand man" in Poland, Jakub Berman.
Prior to trial, he was repeatedly tortured for months. The investigation of Pilecki's activities was supervised by Colonel Roman Romkowski(real name: Natan Grunspan) He was "interrogated" by Col. Jozef Rozanski(real name:Josek Goldberg), and lieutenants S. Lyszkowski, W. Krawczynski, J. Kroszel, T. Slowianek, Eugeniusz Chimczak and S. Alaborski-men who were especially infamous for their savagery. But Pilecki sought to protect other prisoners and revealed no sensitive information. Pilecki, nevertheless confided to his wife just before his murder, that Auschwitz, was a "playground" compared to the Stalinist incarceration.
On 25 May 1948, Pilecki was extra judicially murdered with a bullet to the back of the head at the Mokotow Prison in Warsaw (also known as Rakowiecka Prison), by Staff Sergeant Piotr Smietanski (who was nicknamed "The Butcher of Mokotow Prison" by the inmates). In 1968, during the political shake-up in Poland, Smietanski likely escaped to Israel as did Solomon Morel, who was guilty of atrocities committed against Polish and german civilians at the NKVD-run Zgoda camp. Polish authorities sought his extradition for several years, likewise for Helena Wolinska-Brus( born: Fajga Mindla Danielak) who "settled" in the UK at around the same time. All extradition requests were "denied".
Of course, "special mention" must be made of the secret police torturer Julia "Bloody Luna" Brystiger (nee Prajs) who actually "outdid" the german gestapo, in the torture of prisoners to almost the point of death.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Public_Security_(Poland)
All these notorious agents were sent by Moscow,: many of them were Jewish collaborators with Russians. Unfortunately, they get away with murder. These criminals should have been put on trial in Nuremberg like the Nazis. not be allowed to escape to different countries (Sweden etc).
There are no words to describe this amazing man. I'm so pleased I got to learn a bit about him
Thank you for sharing this story! Greetings from Poland.
Or Japan? Emil przedstawiłeś polską historię Aiko? Jestem twoim subskrybentem ale nie obejrzałem jeszcze wszystkich waszych filmów dlatego pytam. Pozdrawiam Krzysiek
Although only in Poland was the death penalty for the whole family and even villages for hiding Jews, Poles helped thousands of Jews. show me one example when the Jew helped the Pole and there were several million opportunities to help Poles.
Marcin T Can you elaborate on the Jews opportunities to help poles? I'm genuinely interested :)
That is a nice Username :)
Greetings from Texas
Dammit... That guy surely is someone we should try to live up to...
How come we never hear about such great heroes as Witold Pilecki?
Couse of israel politic..they try to blame polish for holokaust and rabb money from as..thats why
Because the communists hid very well their crimes from the World.
"Starałem się żyć tak
Abym w godzinie śmierci,
Mógł się raczej cieszyć,
niż lękać"
"I've been trying to live my life
So that in the hour of my death
I would rather feel joy, then fear"
Witold Pilecki
Cześć i chwała polskim bohaterom
Very important: "then fear" please change to "than fear". Look it up if you are skeptical.
"I tried to live my life in such a fashion, so that in my last hour, I would rather be happy than fearful. I found happiness within me, resulting from the realization, that this fight was worth it."
*than, a przecinek niepotrzebny.
Ana F
Thanks for this quite. Very moving.
What an amazing guy.
Chwała!
Thank you for spreading the word about one of our heroes!
his story would make a good movie
It made a badass heavy metal song
Jonathan Williams true
There is a movie about him. Idk if you'll be able to find English subtitles tho.
This is the type of stuff that should be taught in History class. This guy is a true HERO.
I bought a book called "The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz" at Barnes and noble yesterday and it's about this!
Justin cool wish I had it😃👍🇦🇺
Congratulations! I hope your work paid off in many sales.
One of the most badass persons in history, and I had never heard of him.
Probably because he is a blatant liar.
^ *...*
+STURM Says the guy who has provided no credible sources to back up his accusation. The guy was tortured, tried and executed. How much that could he have lied about?
Did you hear that Land Rover was a stolen project? Yep, from subdued Poland. Life's shitty. th-cam.com/video/gpgmBowBg6c/w-d-xo.html
@@inurmomsbedroom123 ok closet nazi
Wow what an amazing man, and what an incredible story.
this guy is the ultimate badass
I pooped my pants! D:
Susanna Michelle AMEN!
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Last words (reportedly) before being shot in the head: "Long Live Free Poland" - what a badass, and a fucking fantastic human being.
I'm not Polish or anything, but one doesn't have to be to appreciate that sentiment; it could apply anywhere. Doing so much to fight against authoritarianism, cruelty, and oppression, from two different sources, knowing full well it could result in immense suffering and even death, and continuing to do so after experiencing the former (and until it sadly resulted in the latter) is something truly deserving of the word "hero."
His empathy for people (and other organisms) and his high regard for life solidify that. More people should know about him. I'm kinda surprised I hadn't heard about him already.
Edit: Not really two sources
slipknotboy555 "Doing so much to fight against authoritarianism, cruelty, and oppression" I hate to break this to you, but pre-war Poland was a military dictatorship. It was also one of few European countries that already had anti-Semitic policies before the Nazi occupation. The Polish regime even wanted to erect a monument to Hitler if he could expel all Jews from Poland. The discrimination against the Jews was ended by the Soviets in 1939. Before Hitler made territorial concessions on Poland in late 1938, Poland sided more with the fascist regimes than with France and UK.
Before 1939 Poland occupied 25% of today's Ukraine, half of today's Belarus and 7% of today's Lithuania, including the capital city Vilnius. The Polish regime planned to polonize the Belarusian and Ukrainian territory. These plans too were stopped by the Soviet regime.
Kristina S. Thank you very much for that. I actually kinda wondered about the context after my post.
There's a lot of falsehoods and misconceptions surrounding the Soviet Union* thanks to pervasive, persistent propaganda from the cold war, so that makes sense.
The antisemitism is kinda eye-opening, but I'm also not surprised. Again, thanks for pointing that out; the context is certainly important
(*I was a little aware of that at the time of my comment, but not nearly as much as I am now; in the time since then, I've learned a lot about that particular subject)
slipknotboy555 Thank you for being so polite, it's so rare on TH-cam. I wish you a happy New Year!
Kristina S. No problem; you also had a very good point (and an important one), so that's part of it. Heh, yeah, that's true, unfortunately. And thanks, you too!
+Kristina S.
Are you Jewish or just a kosher gentile?
Much respect from India. What wonderful ethos of this man - similar to ours - do not hurt ANY living being.
"I have been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear"
Words to live by.
@@Nomadic_Inquisitor and he did.. and died.
@@FAILoZOFF No one is immortal. ;)
@@Nomadic_Inquisitor that's not the point.
@@FAILoZOFF One man's trash is another's treasure: th-cam.com/video/Si7dl6BU78E/w-d-xo.html
Pilecki was one of many brave Polish soldiers fighting after the Second World War with the Soviet occupation. The last Polish soldier died in arms in 1963 killed by puppet communist security officers and militians
bandyta leśny nie żaden żołnierz
komuch bez mózgu, nie żaden realJesus
Captain Pilecki was not just one of the many brave Polish soldiers.
He was the bravest of the braves! He was the one man whose bravery and strength was even envied by God.
Omg it's crazy that this is recommended to me just now. I was in Wrocław just yesterday (beautiful city by the way, highly recommend), and they have a monument to this man. It's a giant wedding ring that was the one he gave to his wife. Inscribed inside is "for even if I were to lose my life, I prefer it to living with a wounded heart". The monument is incredible and the heroism of the Polish people is remarkable. Polska nie zginęła
Thx
Salute to a true hero, compassion and courage. Thank you for standing against the darkest times World history. God bless Poland😊
Someone needs to turn this incredible story into a movie. It would make a great war movie.
The main reason why the EU is currently fining Poland one million Euros a day is because its government has reformed the legal system and got rid of the old Soviet era Judges in the process.
Please can we have Maximilian Kolbe. Catholic priest who gave his life in Auschwitz concentration camp to save another man .
Thank you for this wonderful example of courage in action. We so often focus on the people who perpetuated war and the true heroes tend to get lost in the shuffle.
What a totally incredible story of an amazing hero and a man with a devotion to life which I think I pretty much unmatched.
This is one of your best videos yet!
Oh my gosh I want a movie on this guy!!!! If I have to make it myself I will!
Alex Larson how’s the movie going?
Still no movie. Updates cutie
Dew it
vod.tvp.pl/video/smierc-rotmistrza-pileckiego,smierc-rotmistrza-pileckiego,21765409
This man was a true hero and we should be making movies about HIM.
Unfortunately, the movie was not produced, because Hollywood tried to make its own version: the Jewish director/ producer was very dishonest and wanted to hide the entire truth by making his own version, diminishing the heroism of Witold Pilecki. The author of the movie script was disgusting and refused to work with this director. What a disgrace !!!
Holy Crapoli, just when you think you’ve heard everything... along comes this unimaginably brave man and blows you away! Calling him a saint doesn’t do him justice!!!
His pointy head is hypnotizing.
Greta M. I wanna smash it down a bit with a hammer...
Huzufu that would make it worse
😂😂😂😂😂
He was sexy
Very eastern Europe. Uh... slavic? I dunno.
You should have added that Stalin invaded Poland in 1939 16 days after Hitler did, and that Stalin later waited for several months in 1944 - until the Nazis conveniently killed the Poles who participated in the Warsaw Uprising - before finally capturing Warsaw.
during the war nobody said the Nazis, they were Germans...
@@VvLastHopevV they are nazis
@@VvLastHopevV Yes, Germans not nazis!
@@gigachad-gx9vu Germans not nazi
17 days after Germany, 17.September
What an incredible human being! To say this man was brave and courageous would surely be an understatement. Thank you for posting this, the world needs to know what this man did.
Sir, Thank you for your service. It's a shame your sacrifice was not appreciated at the time you were alive.
His own daughter had limited access to this knowledge, perhaps even more sad
The word hero gets thrown around, this guy is a real hero.
He's got to have been one of the bravest people ever to live!
We should remember that the Captain was part of the largest underground movement in the history of the world. Over half a million people served in the Polish underground. From 1939 to 1963, over 2,500 military resistance squads fought. There is no city and village in Poland, where there was no battle, no Germans were liquidated. The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 was the largest urban battle of an insurgent character in the history of the world. Pilecki was also one of the first partisan commanders in 1939, and he fought for Polish Vilnius in 1919 and 1920.
And what is important, the names of Pilecki's oppressors are, for example, Rubin Szwajg, Salomon Morel, Hummer, Goldberg ... These are not Polish names.
Unlike jews we poles don't beg for freedom we fight for it
It's sad that those who oppressed him were mostly jews, one of the people he tried to save from german tyrany.
@@nutzbo8660 Read history. Look up the Warsaw uprising. Do better.
Sabaton made a song about him
Mthermavrick yup
Mthermavrick Name?
DRwarnclif Inmate 4859
Mthermavrick long live Sabaton!
Wardog död vid rikets rand, drömmen rand uti sand, leve Sabaton
A True Hero. From Ireland. ❤️
Dre Man wot
Someone should make movie of this story!!!
Let’s not forget that Russia ALSO invaded Poland in 1939.
That's true. But also, let's not forget, that Poland tried to invade Czechoslovakia, when it was on it's knees, with hostile nations all around the clock, just year before.
@@OslikusPrime In 1938, Czechoslovakia was not yet on its knees. It was not a Polish invasion. Polish troops entered there to regain Polish territory (Zaolzie), which had been forcibly taken by Czechoslovakia in 1918. I admit that on the Polish side it was an operation carried out at the wrong time. Eventually it was settled after the war at the conference table. Nevertheless, no Czech soldier or civilian died at that time. Whereas in 1918 many soldiers of the Polish small garrison were brutally murdered by the prevailing Czechoslovak forces. Let's not forget that.
@@wladyslawbukowski "Right", we were perfectly fine in 1938. And about rest of your comment ..., well, I gues you have your own version, so it is pointless trying to react.
I agree that it has been settled and I am thankful for that. To be honest, I think that both nations are perfectly fine with that and nobody wants to look behind and count who did what. Only politicians on both sides make this topic "hot" over and over again, in sake of gathering easy populistic points.
I am also glad, that we have above standard relationship with Poland, and I did not mean anything against you.
I just wanted point out, that nothing is black and white, including whole "agressor/victim" thing. Black and white perspective is a dangerous path.
@@OslikusPrime To be completely clear, I am not defending the Sanacja decisions of the Polish pre-war government. This was neither the right time nor the circumstance for the recovery of terrythothia. I consider it our disgrace. I believe that the Polish government should instead, and much earlier, make efforts to create our common defense force, before Neville Chamberlain agreed to sacrifice Czechoslovakia. But this is already a discussion on "what if". We and you, unlike Mongolian-Byzantine Russia, belong to the same Latin civilization and, despite various tensions, we will always come to an understanding and cooperation. I'm sure about that. Nothing is black and white, that's a fact, full agreement. Regards, Pole from Sydney.
Which was Russian Land taken back, with majority of Russian People.
Wow! Absolute fucking hero.
(Sorry about the swears, there's just no better way to say it).
Very well presented. Very detailed, i am amazed that a foreigner made this. Thank you very much!
Thank you for your film and info about our great polish patriot and great hero Witold Pilecki. All world should learn about his heroic sad story!!!!!
Iam polish patriot living pernanently in west EUrope Paris France. Its pity and shameful that there is no films and info about his heroic life!!!! Good work !!!!
Greetings from Nicole
I'm a south korean who have followed this man's story for years since i first knew of him from a WW history book which i read for my highschool homework, and ever since i have always wondered why this man is so little known and appreciated globally. This man is not just hero for poland, but for all mankind and humanity. We need some international awards or events by his name and i wish some intelligent hollywood director to make a decent budget film about him.
"Inmate 4859" - great man , great song
Whoa no who knows his name
Ibbiplayz 32 they’re actually not saying woah, it’s Wiltold!
dang thats a story that needs to be told more. They should make a movie about this guy
Thanks for this. I did not know about this amazing person in history. Let us all remember the sacrifices many many people made just to do the right thing.
He was really great heroes. Not only because he did things like these. But because he always remembered about honour. Even in these hard times. He didn't expose any people to danger. He was always Polite to women. Ahh this is the great example of Polish soldiers on the times of WW1 and WW2. Later communism and soviets distorted this ethos. And because of soviets we couldn't even mention about Witold Pilecki. I can say that he's history has rennesance nowadays :) Great material! Greetings from Poland!
When Pilecki was captured, tortured and murdered by communists after the war, he described "Aushwitz in compare to this was a walk in the park"
I wouldn't really call what Poland is going through now a rennaisance. Poland is regressing back into authoritarianism.
I'm not really sure is experience was wise with the communist but that was as a spy. I don't know what the nazi's had against him when they took him to auswits but I'm guessing it was just being polish or something.
twisters999. MY LORD MAN .. R U AWARE OF SPELL CHECK GRAMMAR , PUNCTUATION, SENSICAL etc etc ...
Great video though, Simon.
Cheers mate ☺
Maybe not it's not is first language. It would be nicer if you used constructive criticism. Sis he miss capital letter for example?
Excellent video! Captain Witold Pilecki was a real hero and a patriot of his country. Respect.
A Polish w is pronounced as an English v.
Same as in German
Gunter V Dutch also.
Thanks, good to know.
and 'g' in Dutch is pronounced as 'HHH!', am I right? :)
John Doe it's more like a gggghhhhhh. Almost like you're clearing mucus from your throat
What a great man. Truly a beautiful soul.
By listening to his heroic life in this video, I'm bemused that Hollywood never made a movie featuring his cast.
They were in Poland. They visited the son of Witold Pilecki. They wanted to persuade him to put in the script that Witold Pilecki was of Jewish origin, but he did not agree.
Wow, what a lad! And to think that I've never even heard about him before. Honestly his actions should be a part of common WW2 teaching. Interesting and respectable story to say the least.
I also share his "respect all life" mantra :)
They should make a movie about this then more people will know about it, I love all the random facts this channel has
Papi Hokage They did make a movie
if they make a movie about him it would go against the polish Nazi narrative.
Here you go. The Trailer of "The Death of Captain Pilecki" which features exactly that: th-cam.com/video/MbIK24LyIhk/w-d-xo.html There are other attempts but this is most likely the best one so far.
the allies really let this man down. tragedy. but amazingly he never gave up or lost hope, he kept fighting. what a true hero. a real world superhero. more needs to be done to commemorate this man and his accomplishments and sacrifices
The balls of steel on this man. Dear God, what a hero.
I really admire that man
Happy Birthday Witold! I'm sorry so many bad things happened to you and your country. I hope that you are having fun in whatever afterlife you wanted!
Battered, betrayed and ignored at every pivotal moment, it didn't stop him. This guy is the essence of heroism, as good as a human can possibly get.
This man is a real hero. Greetings from India
This was the best video I've watched of you. Keep up the good work and keep the interesting stories coming.
Good job Simon, I am impressed with this video. Cheers from Kraków.
Excellent presentation. Jan Karski would be a great follow up episode.
My relative (brother of my great grandmother, platoon leader in partizan unit) died in a struggle for liberation of my hometown from German occupation - during occupation they managed many times to liberate and rescue prisoners from German transit-camp and from Gestapo prison. Unfortunately little Zamość uprising was crushed and after the war soviets with communists slayed most remaining soldiers of Home Army. Exhausted Polish society was abandoned by Western Allies (USA and UK) - Poland was again occupied for 50 years by soviets.
Zamosc is a beautiful town.
@@semsemeini7905 Yes, Western Allies betrayed Poland and the brave Polish People
A true polish hero. Poland needs more patriots like him.
Im from Poland and you actaully did a great job on pronouncing the names. Huge props and great video!
Wow just WOW
I did not see your comments until now... But, I was mouthing the words. Wow just WOW.....
One person can indeed make a difference!!
This man was far better than brave.
WOW, thank you for this video. Pilecki was great man and brave soldier. Respect for him.
Heartbreaking story. What an exemplary human being. Keep his name alive.
Respect to Poland from an American god bless all of these unknown hero's who fought to put an end to evil.
This is such incredible material that a Hollywood movie would have to cut out some of it just to make it more believable.
Wow. Impressive.
Hollywood actually wanted to make a movie about Pilecki so they contacted his family, but with one catch, they wanted to make him into a Jew and his son said they were not Jews and if they would try to go with it he would be the first one to protest and thus Hollywood cancelled that movie.
A most important video for future generations.
someone should make a movie about him.
John Rokam they were also the guys who interrogated him and killed him. One of them had the nickname the butcher. I can't remember his full name.
That was the communist reality. They hated Catholics more than they respected those who helped their own people.
Witold Pilecki's live before WWII is also very interesting story. As a young boy he fought in 1920 war when soviets invaded Poland. Then after this war he got married, had 2 kids and lived on farm. He was always helping local people, supporting them with great dedication. He taught his children to have respect to all forms of live, be always honest and truthful. In his live he was very devout Catholic and often reefer about Jesus and how we should follow him. Truly one of the greatest men in history. There is a DVD movie about him however low budget th-cam.com/video/B4tfqwaUZD8/w-d-xo.html
long live free poland... I am in tears.....as a Chinese in China. I salute you, sir.
Chinese Government let you use TH-cam
Thank you from Poland :) !
Thx
Thank you :)
0:24 "veetohld peeletzkee"
0:29 "vwodarkyeveetch"
1:36 "wupunkah"
2:23 "puvyakh", "mokotuv"
3:55 "zvyonzeck orguneezatzyee voyskohvey"
8:53 "vwuhdiswuv unders"
10:35 "pyotr shmietanskee"
ain't easy, we know ;)
O kuuuuuuurwa
Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz
It is almost as if he speaks no Polish.
I Polish language we don't use the letter "V"
That nice but you should always just use the IPA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Thank you for making this video - it is always nice to see a chance for the world wide audience to learn about Polish history. Don't worry about the Polish names, you got them better than most anglophones do. The biggest mispronunciation was pronouncing Polish "w" as English "w" - it should pronounced "v" as in, say, "vector".
Very educational as well as thought provoking. Thank you 🙏