{"id":1334,"date":"2023-10-17T12:31:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T12:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-man-who-volunteered-to-be-imprisoned-in-auschwitz-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T12:31:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T12:31:36","slug":"the-man-who-volunteered-to-be-imprisoned-in-auschwitz-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-man-who-volunteered-to-be-imprisoned-in-auschwitz-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The man who volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ta4YG51szE4?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In 1940, a Polish underground operative named Witold Pilecki volunteered to be imprisoned at Auschwitz. <\/p>\n<p>His job was to gather intelligence about activities at the camp and establish a daring resistance network inside. Pilecki remained imprisoned for over two and a half years, and witnessed Auschwitz transform into the Nazi&#8217;s most notorious death camp. He tried to warn the world of the horrors he was witnessing, but the world didn&#8217;t listen.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Adrian Hartrick &#038; Dominika O\u017cy\u0144ska<\/p>\n<p>More from BBC Reel&#8217;s &#8216;Unheard Of&#8217; playlist: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel\/playlist\/unheard-of<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ta4YG51szE4\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1940, a Polish underground operative named Witold Pilecki volunteered to be imprisoned at Auschwitz. His job was to gather intelligence about activities at the camp and establish a daring resistance network inside. Pilecki remained imprisoned for over two and a half years, and witnessed Auschwitz transform into the Nazi&#8217;s most notorious death camp. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}