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Poland Unveils Memorial to WWII Hero Slain by Communists
 [Breitbart] WARSAW, Poland (AP) ‐ Warsaw’s mayor has unveiled a monument to a World War II hero who volunteered to go to Auschwitz and informed firsthand on the atrocities there but later was killed by the communist regime.The memorial for Capt. Witold Pilecki is located near the place where in 1940 he let himself be caught by the occupying Nazi Germans. It was a step toward becoming an inmate of the Auschwitz death camp. Pilecki’s descendants joined hundreds of Warsaw residents and authorities at the ceremony Saturday. Survived the Nazis, Auschwitz, the Warsaw uprising, but was unable to survive the Communists. Posted by: Besoeker 2017-05-15 |
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