NARRATIVE – This Polish war hero played a decisive role in resistance against Nazi Germany, then against the communist regime in Warsaw, who murdered him. To find out, we met his son.
« I don’t remember the last time I saw it. » At 94, Andrzej, the empty look, slowly plunges into the depths of his memory, in vain. He was 16 when his father, Witold Pilecki, disappeared, murdered by the new Soviet regime in Poland in 1948. « I have often imagined this last meeting, I must say that I would have a lot of questions to ask him »confides the old man, to the twilight of his life, bright eyes.
Why did you choose, during the war, to go to Auschwitz, voluntarily, leaving behind his wife and two children? Or why did you continue to fight clandestinely, in 1945, rather than flee the new Soviet yoke in Poland? Is it inevitably men who kiss the great history, the one who builds the heroes?
Today, very old, Andrzej has abandoned the burden of painful memories. Bringing together his forces, he returns the first …
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