PBS: Friday 8 August at 6.50pm

Auschwitz: The Inside Man

The incredible untold story of Witold Pilecki, a Polish officer who managed to infiltrate the Auschwitz death camp. As an undercover agent, he smuggled out information, secretly delivered to London during his internment. Pileckihad a mission in Auschwitz: to create a support and information network within the death camp. Spending nearly a thousand days in the dark heart of Nazi atrocities, he also devised a crazy plan to start an uprising to free the prisoners. As a tragic witness to some of the bleakest chapters of human history, Pileckiwas the first man to have informed the Allies about the reality of the Holocaust from inside the camp. Here is the story of one of the greatest resistance fighters of World War II.