Poster exhibition honours Polish war-time hero
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
13.10.2016 14:32
Nineteen entries to an international poster contest entitled “Captain Pilecki, the invincible hero” will be exhibited in Kraków, southern Poland, on Thursday.
The winning poster. Photo: rtmpilecki.com.pl
More than 150 posters by artists from Poland, Canada, Japan, Ecuador, Ukraine and Germany were entered for the competition, held to find the best poster honouring Captain Witold Pilecki.
Pilecki allowed himself to be arrested by the Germans in September 1940 and was sent to the Nazi German-run Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland.
He managed to send out reports indicating that extermination of European Jews was being planned by the Nazi Germans.
In 1943, having escaped from Auschwitz, Pilecki reached Warsaw, and a year later fought in the Warsaw Uprising. (vb/pk)
Source: rtmpilecki.com.pl