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Vermont Author Tells The Story Of The Resistance Fighter Who Infiltrated Auschwitz

The Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, is pictured on Friday, Feb. 15, 2019.
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The Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, is pictured on Friday, Feb. 15, 2019.

Witold Pilecki was a Polish resistance fighter who intentionally allowed himself to be captured and sent to Auschwitz. His mission was to sabotage and gather information about the camp — well before the full truth of its horrifying purpose was revealed to the world. We're talking to the author of a new book on Pilecki about what he accomplished and why he isn't better known today.

"The Volunteer" by Jack Fairweather will be released by Harper Collins in the U.S. on June 26, 2019.
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"The Volunteer" by Jack Fairweather will be released by Harper Collins in the U.S. on June 26, 2019.

Jack Fairweather has been a war correspondent for the Washington Post and the Daily Telegraph and now lives in Charlotte.

He's joins Vermont Edition to discuss his new book, The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz.

Broadcast live on Thursday, June 13, 2019 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.

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