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Over a dozen original objects and copies of documents from the Collections of the Auschwitz Memorial Site are on display at the exhibition "Ochotnik (The Volunteer). Witold Pilecki and his mission in Auschwitz" prepared in Berlin by the Pilecki Institute. The opening of the exhibition on 17 September inaugurated the functioning of the permanent seat of the Pilecki Institute in the German capital. It is located near the Brandenburg Gate.
The curators of the exhibition are Hanna Radziejowska, head of the Witold Pilecki Institute in Berlin and Jack Fairweather, author of the book "The Volunteer" about Calvary Capt. Witold Pilecki. One of the historical experts was Piotr Setkiewicz, PhD, head of the Auschwitz Museum Research Centre.
The exhibition in Berlin tells the story of Cavalry Captain Witold Pilecki using his reports and several documents, as well as unique objects. The objects borrowed for the exhibition from the Auschwitz Museum Collections include, among others, a striped camp uniform and badge of a Polish political prisoner, an empty can of Zyklon B, shoes belonging to the deportees, a camp bowl, or a dagger of an SS crew member.
In Berlin, visitors can also see a faithful copy of a drawing made in the summer of 1943 in Nowy Wiśnicz, right after Witold Pilecki escaped from Auschwitz. It portrays Pilecki and Tomasz Serafinski - who assumed Pilecki's identity as a prisoner of Auschwitz.