Witold Pilecki

New Pilecki film is most expensive Polish production for 12 years

After nearly 10 years in the making, movie-goers are bracing themselves for the much-anticipated release on Friday of Raport Pileckiego (The Pilecki Report), which recounts the heroic and tragic story of Witold Pilecki. TVP VOD/YouTube

VIDEO: Taking nearly 10 years to make and premiering on Friday this week, actor Przemysław Wyszyński who stars as Witold Pilecki told TFN: “It's a wonderful film about mankind, about people who did remarkable things in the name of their ideals and the truth they knew.”

James Bond producer to make new film about Polish hero Witold Pilecki

Entitled Enemy of My Enemy, the joint American-Polish production by The Power Hound Pictures and the Polish Film Institute is said to be one of the biggest Polish productions of all time.

Cell where Witold Pilecki was held before being executed opens to the public

The opening of the 2x3.5-metre cell where Pilecki awaited execution at the hands of the Soviet-installed communists coincides with the 75th anniversary of his execution at the prison in 1948.

Escape from Auschwitz: 80 years ago today Witold Pilecki escaped from Auschwitz death camp to tell the world the truth

VIDEO: Having engineered his own arrest so that he would be imprisoned in the camp, Pilecki’s escape was one of the most important, if not the most important, of all the nearly 1,000 escapes undertaken by Auschwitz prisoners.

Warsaw court grants compensation to son of war-hero Pilecki

The son of Captain Witold Pilecki, a Polish war hero who volunteered to be sent to Auschwitz but was later executed by Poland’s communist government, has been awarded PLN 1.5 million (EUR 320,000) for the harm suffered by his father.

Son of Polish WWII hero sues for EUR 5.5 mln compensation

The son of war hero Witold Pilecki has brought a legal case against the State Treasury for PLN 26 million (EUR 5.53 million) for the harm his father suffered under communism.

“The Olkusz man that won the war”: Antoni Kocjan remembered on anniversary of execution

Killed on this day in 1944, Kocjan played a vital role in demystifying Nazi wonder weapons and is credited with saving London from further destruction.

Mystery man leaves nearly 400 WWII Home Army IDs in envelope to Warsaw Uprising Museum

The haul of 383 ID cards and three insurgent passes is more than twice as many as the entire collection that the museum has built up over several decades, with museum sources saying the batch may be worth as much as one million złotys. But the identity of the donor remains a mystery.

WW2 aid to Jews one of finest pages in Polish history - PM

Aid to Jews in German-occupied Poland during World War Two is one of the finest pages in Polish history, PM Mateusz Morawiecki wrote in a letter accompanying the Friday opening of an exhibition devoted to Poles executed by the Germans for helping Jews.

British author of book about Polish WWII hero visits Warsaw

British journalist and writer Jack Fairweather, who visited Warsaw to promote his book "The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz," noted that the first reports about the horrors in Auschwitz were prepared by Witold Pilecki.

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