“Well, he thought, let’s see if this eastern Jew can surprise me with anything new...”
Mister Sokolov shook his goiter with an amusing rhetoric in his gestures, then opened the report at random as if he wanted to read from it. But he started speaking freely instead, as he knew its content by heart, having reread it several times already.
‘Captain Pilecki is a Polish national hero, Sir, I need to point this out from the start! Well, two years ago Witold Pilecki infiltrated a group of Warsaw Jews who were about to be captured by the SS troops. He was caught and almost immediately deported at Auschwitz, a concentration camp that was under construction at that point. Although, according to his own statements, he had been viciously beaten with an iron crowbar right in the beginning, which res
