Rachela Muracka

“A man fighting for his life can do more than he ever imagined he could.”
― Witold Pilecki, The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Initially holding up well, the girls quickly lost the sparkle in their eyes, their smiles and the spring in their step. Some of them continued to smile, but more sorrowfully.”
― Witold Pilecki, The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery

“He claims to have attained quite quickly an almost spiritual state of serenity. He felt “happiness” at the solidarity which the camp’s terrible conditions had created amongst the Poles: “Then, I felt a single thought coursing through these Poles standing shoulder to shoulder, I felt that finally we were all united by the same anger, a desire for revenge, I felt myself in an environment perfectly suited to begin my work here and discovered within me a semblance of happiness...”
― Witold Pilecki, The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery