The Auschwitz Volunteer — The Heroic Story of Witold Pilecki

11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

Captain Witold Pilecki voluntarily entered the Auschwitz concentration camp, built a secret resistance and sent desperate reports to London and Washington. 947 Days in Auschwitz is a documentary created by Warsaw-based filmmaker Patrick Ney together with the Home Army Museum in Kraków, Poland — home to Pilecki’s eyewitness Auschwitz report. Pilecki’s accounts were smuggled across occupied Europe, reached Churchill and Roosevelt, and were dismissed. This film asks the question history has never fully answered: what if they had listened?

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ October 16-19, watch the film 947 Days in Auschwitz on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

⇒ Sunday, October 18 at 2:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

Jack Fairweather (left) is the bestselling author of The Volunteer, his acclaimed account of Witold Pilecki, the Polish underground officer who volunteered to enter Auschwitz and report on Nazi crimes. The book won the Costa Book Award for Biography and has been translated into 25 languages. A former Daily Telegraph Baghdad Bureau Chief and Washington Post journalist, Fairweather is currently Director of the Pilecki Institute USA. His extensive research into Pilecki’s life and mission helped bring this extraordinary story to a worldwide audience.

Dr. Jud Newborn (right) was the Founding Historian of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage and is co-author of the acclaimed Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. He was awarded his PhD with Distinction by the University of Chicago following three years of adventurous fieldwork, including hunting down former SS officers and working undercover during communist martial law in Poland. He was honored with the Anne Frank Center’s “Spirit of Anne Frank Award” and is the two-time Emmy Award-winning Producer of Special Programs for Long Island’s Cinema Arts Centre.

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Registration will close on Thursday, October 15 at 10 PM ET. Instructions and links will be sent out on Friday, October 16 and again on the morning of the program.