Jack Fairweather's Lecture on Witold Pilecki

On May 30, 2023, Jack Fairweather, bestselling author of books about Witold Pilecki: “The Volunteer” and “A Rebel in Auschwitz,” met with the students at the Williamsburg High School of Architecture and Design to share his insights and experiences with the students as a part of the Project Witness initiative. This event is part of #PolishHeritageDays.
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In 2020, “The Volunteer” by Jack Fairweather received a special recognition in the Historical Contest organized by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for its outstanding contribution to promoting the history of Polish diplomacy and the history of Poland.⁠
Jack Fairweather is the bestselling author of The Volunteer, the Costa Prize winning account of a Polish underground officer who volunteered to report on Nazi crimes in Auschwitz. The book has been translated into 25 languages and forms the basis of a major exhibition in Berlin. He has served as the Daily Telegraph’s Baghdad bureau chief, and as a video journalist for the Washington Post in Afghanistan. His war coverage has won a British Press Award and an Overseas Press Club award citation.
While living in Baghdad, Jack met his wife-to-be and lived in the house of Saddam’s former perfume supplier alongside other reporters. As the violence escalated in Iraq, Jack was fortunate to survive a suicide bomb attack, a kidnapping attempt, and almost daily mortar attacks around their house. He now lives a quieter life, writing history books while raising his three daughters between Vermont and Wales. He is the author of A War of Choice, and The Good War, a Times book of the year.
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