{"id":284,"date":"2020-05-01T12:32:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T12:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kildarelibrariesblog.wpcomstaging.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2020-05-01T12:32:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T12:32:13","slug":"the-volunteer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/the-volunteer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Volunteer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/image-1.png?w=232\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-285\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author: Jack Fairweather<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genre: Adult Non-fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reviewed by: Ann<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the unbelievable true story of one Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative during WWII.&nbsp; The story is unbelievable because the usual narrative is of people trying to escape the horrors of Auschwitz, where this man not only broke into Auschwitz but survived its barbarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This to me is a story of a real heroism. He was tasked with reporting on Nazi crimes, to raise a secret army and stage an uprising. Over two and a half years, he organized an underground resistance within Auschwitz that sabotaged facilities, he gathered evidence of horrors and abuse and mass murder.&nbsp; He risked his life, his family and his friends to warn the West before all was lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He gathered information on Nazi plans to exterminate Europe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jews.&nbsp; The story, gripping in its detail but also, I saw a man who was a rare human among humans, who risked everything in his attempt to change the course of history.&nbsp; I have to be honest and say there was a lump in my throat when I finally finished the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read this amazing story of Witold Pilecki, a hero like no other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Jack Fairweather Genre: Adult Non-fiction Reviewed by: Ann This is the unbelievable true story of one Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative during WWII.&nbsp; The story is unbelievable because the usual narrative is of people trying to escape the horrors of Auschwitz, where this man not only broke into Auschwitz but survived its barbarity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182174489,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[258085],"tags":[771541788,72285],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-non-fiction","tag-adult-non-fiction","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182174489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}