He is one of the few known individuals who deliberately infiltrated Auschwitz to gather intelligence and report on the atrocities being committed there. In September 1940, Pilecki volunteered to be arrested and sent to Auschwitz under a false identity to gather intelligence and organise resistance within the camp. At the time, Auschwitz was not widely … Continue reading Witold Pilecki, a Polish Army officer and member of the resistance during World War II, played a remarkable and heroic role in informing the Allies about the Holocaust.