My 'hero' great-granddad CHOSE to go to Auschwitz: Polish man's pride for resistance fighter who endured death camp to try to warn the world about its horrors - but then suffered cruel fate
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a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail
When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Witold Pilecki did the only logical thing for a someone as patriotic as him: he signed up to fight.