Witold Pilecki

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

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

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

“Auschwitz was just a game for me.”

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

“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.”

“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.”