Against The Odds
The Against The Odds website details the resistance movement in Nazi Concentration Camps during…
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Capt. Witold Pilecki
Capt. Witold Pilecki Polish troops enter Wilno in 1919 Born in 1901 near Lake Ladoga in Northern Russia in the family of Polish patriots deported by the Russian Tsar during the Russian occupation of Poland, he was one of the true heroes of the Second World War. His military career began in… Read more
Organized Resistance
Organized Resistance Capt. Witold Pilecki Eventually in most of the camps prisoner organizations came into existence. Most of these were started by the prisoners themselves as the camp populations included numerous prisoners who were previously involved in underground work. These included German… Read more
Individual Resistance
Individual Resistance SELF HELP The most basic form of resistance was the fight for survival. The aim of the camps was not just to imprison certain people but also through the brutal conditions they were to live under, and this was particularly true in the camps located in occupied Poland, to bring… Read more
Stutthof Death Camp
Stutthof Death Camp Stutthof The history of the Stutthof concentration camp reaches 1936 when the German security services of the "Free City Danzig" as the ancient Polish city of Gdansk was then called after centuries of German occupation which saw the marginalization of its Polish… Read more
Auschwitz
Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest German concentration/extermination camp in occupied Poland. Located in south-western Poland near the Polish-German border it was composed of three camps: Auschwitz I, II and III. Founded in 1940 and evacuated in 1945 ahead of approaching Soviet troops… Read more
The Victims
The Victims There were numerous estimates of the number of victims of Auschwitz with initial figures reaching 4-5 million. This was caused by the fact that most of the Jews that arrived in the camp were destined for immediate death were never counted and only some 200,000 were retained for slave labour… Read more
Organized Resistance
Organized Resistance Capt. Witold Pilecki Eventually in most of the camps prisoner organizations came into existence. Most of these were started by the prisoners themselves as the camp populations included numerous prisoners who were previously involved in underground work. These included German… Read more
Auschwitz
Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest German concentration/extermination camp in occupied Poland. Located in south-western Poland near the Polish-German border it was composed of three camps: Auschwitz I, II and III. Founded in 1940 and evacuated in 1945 ahead of approaching Soviet troops… Read more
The Victims
The Victims There were numerous estimates of the number of victims of Auschwitz with initial figures reaching 4-5 million. This was caused by the fact that most of the Jews that arrived in the camp were destined for immediate death were never counted and only some 200,000 were retained for slave labour… Read more
Organized Resistance
Organized Resistance Capt. Witold Pilecki Eventually in most of the camps prisoner organizations came into existence. Most of these were started by the prisoners themselves as the camp populations included numerous prisoners who were previously involved in underground work. These included German… Read more
Individual Resistance
Individual Resistance SELF HELP The most basic form of resistance was the fight for survival. The aim of the camps was not just to imprison certain people but also through the brutal conditions they were to live under, and this was particularly true in the camps located in occupied Poland, to bring… Read more
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