Witold Pilecki

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

“The game which I was now playing in Auschwitz was dangerous.”

“I tried to create a chain of organizations which were to be ready for the moment when we were to receive an order and arms.”

“From that moment on I ceased to be 'I' and became number 4859.”

“For we are not fighting for our lives, but for something more.”

“In my heart, I was saying goodbye to everything I had hitherto known in this world.”

“Auschwitz was just a game for me.”

“We had to keep a constant state of alert, one needed the reflexes of a fencer, to avoid a blow from a club.”