On May 30, in the National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Babyn Yar" Senior Researcher Mikhail Hutor presented a translation from the Polish language of documentary materials "Report Witold".
About the crimes of the Nazis in the territory of the former Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz it had been known due to "Witold's Report", which was written by an officer of the Polish Army Witold Pilecki, who cooperated with the Secret Polish Army, as volunteer prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
On September 19, 1940, during a raid in the Warsaw area of Zholyboz, Witold Pilecki gave the Germans arrest himself as Tomasz Zerafinsky.
He arrived in the concentration camp Auschwitz with a transport of 1705 people (the so-called "second Warsaw transport") on the night of September 21, 1940. His camp number was 4859.
Under the name of Tomasz Zerafinski, prisoner number 4859 - was the main organizer of the Polish underground in the camp. Witold Pilecki constantly sent information on the mass extermination of Jews in Auschwitz, which was sent to the command of the Army Combat Union in Warsaw and further to the West.
In 1942, the Government of the Polish Republic sent a message to the League of Nations on the "Mass Destruction of Jews in Occupied Poland," which was compiled mainly on the basis of reports by Vitold Piletsky.
In his book "Six Faces of Courage", British historian Michael Foot put Witold Pilecki among the six most respected heroes of the Second World War.
