Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier primarily known for voluntarily entering the German concentration camp in Auschwitz as a spy during the Second World War, was the personification of heroism. He is unquestionably one of the most outstanding historical figures, whose courageous feats taught the world a great deal about what it truly means to “make a difference”. Like most of his fellow countrymen, he fought bravely all throughout the war, doing everything that was in his power to bring an end to the terrible atrocities of the war. Witold Pilecki proved to be hero as early as 1919. When he was merely eighteen years old, he joined the Polish Army to fight against the Russian Bolsheviks who, in a frantic attempt to conquer Europe, marched west
