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Show about Polish wartime hero wins award on Broadway

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Grzegorz Siwicki 20.11.2018 14:15
“The Auschwitz Volunteer,” a one-man show about Polish wartime hero Witold Pilecki, has won an award for best documentary drama at the United Solo Theatre Festival on New York’s Broadway.
Witold Pilecki. Photo: pilecki.ipn.gov.plWitold Pilecki. Photo: pilecki.ipn.gov.pl

The show, which was staged on November 11 and 14, traces the story of Polish army officer Witold Pilecki, who during World War II volunteered for a secret undercover mission of getting himself arrested by the Germans and sent to the Nazi German concentration camp of Auschwitz in order to smuggle out intelligence to the Allies.

Pilecki barely survived almost three years of brutality, disease and starvation before escaping.

The Auschwitz Volunteer: Captain Witold Pilecki featured California-based Polish actor Marek Probosz, who also directed the show.

Probosz has told the Polish Press Agency that, in the show, he donned an original Polish Second Corps uniform in which Pilecki served as an officer.

Probosz also told the Polish state news agency that his grandfather, Jerzy Probosz, a poet, was killed in the Nazi German concentration camp of Dachau in 1942.

“The stigma of that wartime family tragedy has troubled me since I was a boy,” he said.

The Auschwitz Volunteer: Captain Witold Pilecki was one of 130 one-man shows on the programme of the 10-day United Solo Theatre Festival.

(mk/gs)

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