Witold Pilecki

"I found a joy in myself, coming from the awareness that I want to fight."

"Dlatego więc piszę niniejszą petycję,"

"If Józef Cyrankiewicz finds out I'm here, I'm dead."

"The game which I was now playing in Auschwitz was dangerous. This sentence does not really convey the reality; in fact, I had gone far beyond what people in the real world consider dangerous."

"I was not a[n intelligence] resident, only a Polish officer. I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was a spy, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict."

"So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live anymore, they've done me. Auschwitz was just a child's play."

"I've been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear."

"During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people were killed. Over the next 2 years, 3 Million."