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Cavalry captain of the Polish Army, soldier of the Home Army, prisoner and organizer of the resistance movement in KL Auschwitz. Author of reports on the Holocaust.
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Born on May 13, 1901 in Ołoniec. Executed on May 25, 1948 in Warsaw. In addition to the mass grave, there is a symbolic family grave in the section at Łączka (section D22-1-2).
It was thanks to Witold Pilecki that the world heard about the mass extermination of Jews. Sentenced to death by a communist court, murdered with a shot to the back of the head. Rehabilitated in 1990.
To this day, it is not known what the communist torturers did with his body.
In 2006, he was posthumously awarded the Order of the White Eagle by President Lech Kaczyński, and seven years later he was promoted to the rank of colonel. (…)
Read more in PCBJ… (click to go to the Polish Digital Equestrian Library) and/ or on hejnakon.pl… (after clicking you will go to the HEJ NA HORSE portal)
Author: Piotr Dzięciołowski
www.hejnakon.pl
Below you will find links to related materials in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library.
Witold Pilecki, accused and sentenced to death by the communist authorities of the People's Republic of Poland, at the age of 47, he was executed on May 25, 1948. He was most likely buried in the "Ł" section at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw
Polish Digital Equestrian Library:
Click on the links below to access related materials in the Polish Digital Equestrian Library (will open in a new tab):
“Captain Witold Pilecki. Death sentence carried out by a shot to the back of the head” [link] (2022)
"Captain Pilecki's Stable" (2020) - Piotr Dzięciołowski
“Equestrian sport in horse arms of the Second Polish Republic” (1974) – Zygmunt Bielecki
“Witold Pilecki in the Polish campaign of 1939” – Museum of the Second World War
Gallery:
photo: from the family collection.
