Arrest and execution Witold Pilecki

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pilecki in court (1948)



trial of pilecki (1948)


on 8 may 1947, pilecki arrested agents of ministry of public security. prior trial, repeatedly tortured. investigation of pilecki s activities supervised colonel roman romkowski. interrogated col. józef różański, , lieutenants s. Łyszkowski, w. krawczyński, j. kroszel, t. słowianek, eugeniusz chimczak , s. alaborski – men infamous savagery. pilecki sought protect other prisoners , revealed no sensitive information.


on 3 march 1948, show trial took place. testimony against pilecki presented future polish prime minister, józef cyrankiewicz, himself auschwitz survivor. pilecki charged illegal border crossing, use of forged documents, not enlisting military, carrying illegal arms, espionage general władysław anders, espionage foreign imperialism (thought british intelligence) , planning assassinate several officials of ministry of public security of poland. pilecki denied assassination charges, espionage, although admitted passing information 2nd polish corps, of considered himself officer , claimed not breaking laws. pleaded guilty other charges. on 15 may, 3 of comrades, sentenced death. ten days later, on 25 may 1948, pilecki executed @ mokotów prison in warsaw (also known rakowiecka prison), staff sergeant piotr Śmietański (who nicknamed butcher of mokotow prison inmates).



i ve been trying live life in hour of death rather feel joy, fear.




during pilecki s last conversation wife told her: cannot live. killed me. because oświęcim [auschwitz] compared them trifle. final words before execution long live free poland .


afterward, polish government-in-exile decided post-war political situation afforded no hope of poland s liberation , ordered remaining active members of polish resistance (who became known cursed soldiers) either return normal civilian lives or escape west.


pilecki s place of burial has never been found thought somewhere within warsaw s powązki cemetery. after fall of communism in poland symbolic gravestone erected in memory @ ostrowa mazowiecka cemetery. in 2012, powązki cemetery partially excavated in effort find pilecki s remains.








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