The Auschwitz Volunteer
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November 21, 2023 - Taiwanese Edition of The Auschwitz Volunteer Gets New Cover - Happy to share that Taiwanese publisher Acropolis has just reissued their Complex Chinese translation of The Auschwitz Volunteer with a terrific new cover!
August 17, 2023 - Hollywood Film About Pilecki Announced - The Polish Film Institute and Hollywood's Powder Hound Pictures have announced a joint venture to finance and produce a biographical film about Polish hero Witold Pilecki. Pilecki's most comprehensive report on his secret undercover mission as a prisoner at Auschwitz was published by Aquila Polonica under the title The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery. Read more online or in pdf....
January 15, 2023 - Italian Edition of The Auschwitz Volunteer Gets New Cover - We're excited to share that Italian publiser Piemme is doing a new edition of their translation of The Auschwitz Volunteer with a very attractive new cover!
December 2022 - Serbian edition of The Auschwitz Volunteer published - In mid-December 2022, the Serbian-language edition of The Auschwitz Volunteer was published, launched by a well-attended event at the Serbian National Library in Belgrade in organized by the Serbian publisher Marsove knjige in cooperation with the Polish Embassy and the Genocide Victim's Museum.
April 5, 2021 - The Auschwitz Volunteer Now Available in Japanese - A Japanese edition of The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery by Captain Witold Pilecki is now available. Japanese-language rights were acquired by Misuzu Shobo Publishers in Tokyo, from Aquila Polonica Publishing, Los Angeles. This new Japanese edition joins the German, Italian, Portuguese, Finnish, complex Chinese (Taiwan), and simple Chinese (Mainland China) editions, previously licensed by Aquila Polonica to foreign publishers in those languages. Read the entire press release here...
May 1, 2019 - Jewish Book Council Reading List includes The Auschwitz Volunteer - We are excited to learn that the Jewish Book Council has included our award-winning book The Auschwitz Volunteer by Captain Witold Pilecki in its curated Reading List for the topic of Holocaust/Auschwitz.
April 23, 2019 - World Book Day - Today is World Book Day! Established in 1995, April 23 is dedicated to book lovers around the world, to celebrate and promote reading habits, publishing and copyright.
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." - Haruki Murakami
So grab a book that you might not otherwise have read! You can't go wrong with The Auschwitz Volunteer -- or, in fact, any of our books -- they've all won one or more awards!
December 6-9, 2018 - Boston, MA - 2018 ASEEES Convention - Aquila Polonica exhibited at the 2018 convention of the Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) for the ninth year in a row. It was a great opportunity to showcase all our titles (including our award-winning title The Auschwitz Volunteer), meet old friends, and make new ones! Attending on behalf of Aquila Polonica were president Terry Tegnazian and creative director Ewa Wojciak. Some shots of our booth, below:
November 30 through December 2, 2018 - Chicago, IL - 2018 NCSS Conference - Once again, the American Council for Polish Culture organized and manned the Polish Perspectives booth at the Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies. More than 4,000 teachers attended, and browsed more than 250 booths. As in past years, Aquila Polonica donated several copies of each of its titles (including our award-winning book The Auschwitz Volunteer) for the Polish Perspectives booth, which were given away to teachers before the Conference's end. Photos: Aquila Polonica titles (above left); happy teacher with free book (below left); Polish Perspectives booth (below right).
November 11-16, 2018 - New York City, NY - The Auschwitz Volunteer on Broadway - Captain Witold Pilecki on Broadway! We're very excited to announce that a one-actor show based on Aquila Polonica's award-winning book The Auschwitz Volunteer won the Best Documentary Show Award at the 2018 United Solo Theatre Festival. Starring and directed by actor Marek Probosz, with Aquila Polonica president Terry Tegnazian narrating. More...
August 12, 2018 - Santa Monica, CA - The Auschwitz Volunteer Multimedia Performance - Aquila Polonica president Terry Tegnazian and actor Marek Probosz presented Aquila Polonica's two-person multimedia program about Captain Witold Pilecki and the resistance movement at Auschwitz, at Saint Monica's Church.
January 11-12, 2018 - Chandler, AZ - The Auschwitz Volunteer Multimedia Performances - Aquila Polonica president Terry Tegnazian and actor Marek Probosz presented two performances of Aquila Polonica's two-person multimedia program about Captain Witold Pilecki and the resistance movement at Auschwitz, to audiences totaling approximately 1,500 people. More...
November 9-12, 2017 - Chicago, IL - 2017 ASEEES Convention - Aquila Polonica exhibited at the 2017 convention of the Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) for the eighth year in a row. It was a great opportunity to showcase all our titles (including our award-winning title The Auschwitz Volunteer), meet old friends, and make new ones! Attending on behalf of Aquila Polonica were president Terry Tegnazian and creative director Ewa Wojciak.
November 7, 2016 - Finnish version of The Auschwitz Volunteer now available! - Just received our copies of the Finnish version of The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery by Captain Witold Pilecki! We licensed Finnish-language rights to publisher Minerva Kustannus Oy in Helsinki.
August 20, 2016 - The Auschwitz Volunteer in the Wall St. Journal - The Wall St. Journal names The Auschwitz Volunteer as one of the "Five Best" books on wartime secret missions!! Read here (print version)... OR here (pdf of online version)... OR online (WSJ subscription required). And here's our PRESS RELEASE...
May 23, 2016 - Mainland China edition of The Auschwitz Volunteer - We just received our copies of the simplified Chinese (Mainland China) edition of The Auschwitz Volunteer by Captain Witold Pilecki, translated to English by Jarek Garlinski. We licensed the simplified Chinese rights to Beijing World Publishing Corporation. We licensed complex Chinese rights to Acropolis in Taiwan, and that edition has been available since early 2014.
November 19–22, 2015 - Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Philadelphia - Aquila Polonica exhibited at the 2015 ASEEES annual convention in Philadelphia—marking our sixth year at ASEEES! The Auschwitz Volunteer was among the Aquila Polonica titles on display and available for sale. For photos and a more complete report...
November 13–15, 2015 - New Orleans, LA - The Auschwitz Volunteer was one of the Aquila Polonica titles showcased at the Polish Perspectives booth at National Council for the Social Studies annual convention. The booth is sponsored each year by the American Council for Polish Culture. Cecilia Glembocki, one of the organizers of the booth, reported, "Your books were so very successful. If you could have seen the enjoyment on the faces of these young men teachers who loved the books. One young man asked three times if I were for real. He said he got his Christmas gift very early." 
September 19, 2015 - London, England - Jarek Garlinski, translator of The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, by Captain Witold Pilecki, was interviewed live on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, the UK's most popular news breakfast programme (TV or radio). September 19th is the 75th anniversary of the day that Captain Witold Pilecki began his historic undercover mission as a prisoner at Auschwitz.
September 18, 2015 - Jimmy Lakey on KCOL-AM600 - Radio host Jimmy Lakey on KCOL-AM600, covering northern Colorado, interviewed Aquila Polonica president Terry Tegnazian about Captain Witold Pilecki and The Auschwitz Volunteer, on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the beginning of Pilecki's historic undercover mission as a prisoner at Auschwitz.
September 9, 2015 - The Auschwitz Volunteer Sold in Finland - Aquila Polonica recently sold Finnish rights to its award-winning book The Auschwitz Volunteer to Minerva Kustannus Oy, Helsinki. For more info...
August 2, 2015 - Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw Uprising Mural Dedicated - The Auschwitz Volunteer was one of the books available for sale at the dedication ceremony for a mural commemorating the 1944 Warsaw Uprising at the Polish National Home in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Aquila Polonica author Julian Kulski (The Color of Courage), was one of the featured speakers at the event on Sunday afternoon, August 2, 2015, The other speakers included Polish Consul General Urszula Gacek and N.Y. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. More info and photos...
July 23, 2015 - Sarmatian Review praises Aquila Polonica - "Aquila Polonica is probably the finest and most successful publisher of Polish books in the United States," says Sarmatian Review in a Facebook post reporting on Aquila Polonica's sale of simplified Chinese rights for The Auschwitz Volunteer.The post continues: "This is truly a road marker. Chinese views of Europe have not congealed yet, and books like 'The Auschwitz Volunteer' have a chance to influence those views." Read the entire post... AND for more info on the sale of simplified Chinese rights...
July 6, 2015 - The Auschwitz Volunteer Chinese Rights Sold - Aquila Polonica recently sold simplified Chinese rights to its award-winning book The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery by Captain Witold Pilecki to Beijing World Publishing Corporation, Beijing. For more info...
May 29, 2015 - Publishers Weekly BEA Show Daily - Feature Article on Aquila Polonica - In a feature article titled "The Polish Eagle Has Landed," Publishers Weekly spotlighted Aquila Polonica, mentioning The Auschwitz Volunteer as one of Aquila Polonica's books. Read the complete article online or pdf...
May 27-29, 2015 - New York City - Aquila Polonica at Book Expo America - Aquila Polonica president Terry Tegnazian attended Book Expo America ("BEA") in New York City, the largest book show in the U.S. It was a great opportunity to meet people, renew acquaintances and explore publishing resources. Aquila Polonica books were featured in three booths at BEA: The Color of Courage and The Auschwitz Volunteer were on display by Aquila Polonica's distributor, National Book Network; The Color of Courage was featured at the Independent Book Publishers Association booth as a Ben Franklin winner; and all of Aquila Polonica titles were shown at the booth of the Polish Cultural Institute. Two stunnng half-page ads in the Day 2 Show Daily showcased The Auschwitz Volunteer and The Color of Courage—click for The Auschwitz Volunteer ad and The Color of Courage ad. Shown at left, Aquila Polonica display at the NBN booth. Below, IBPA booth, Award Winners Showcase, and close-up of The Color of Courage, which won both a Gold Award for Interior Design and Silver for Autobiography/Memoir. At right, Aquila Polonica books shown at the Polish Cultural Institute booth.
March 5, 2015 - The Joan Quinn Profiles and The Auschwitz Volunteer - Los Angeles cable TV show host Joan Agajanian Quinn, of The Joan Quinn Profiles, interviews actor/writer/director Marek Probosz about his background, his starring role as Witold Pilecki in the film The Death of Captain Pilecki, and the Aquila Polonica book The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, following the multimedia program presented by Mr. Probosz and Aquila Polonica president Terry Tegnazian at Hillel at UCLA on March 1, 2015.
March 1, 2015 - Los Angeles, CA - Captain Witold Pilecki at Hillel at UCLA - Actor/writer/director Marek Probosz and Aquila Polonica president Terry Tegnazian presented a multimedia performance about Captain Witold Pilecki and the resistance movement in Auschwitz to an audience of 150 or more at Hillel at UCLA in Los Angeles.The program was introduced by Dr. Michael Berenbaum of American Jewish University. For more info and photos...
February 25, 2015 - Jewish Journal on The Auschwitz Volunteer - In an article titled "Auschwitz's Volunteer Prisoner," the Jewish Journal in Los Angeles says "The long-lost story of Capt. Witold Pilecki and his heroic actions during World War II is finally coming to light...To honor his efforts, Hillel at UCLA is hosting a multimedia performance March 1 of Pilecki's reports." Read the article online or pdf... For more info on the Hillel event, go to Upcoming Events.
February 1, 2015 - New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof - In a powerful op-ed titled "Heroes and Bystanders" that ran in the Sunday Review section of the New York Times on February 1, 2015, highly respected columnist Nicholas Kristof singles out Captain Witold Pilecki as "one of the great heroes of the 20th century." Read the op-ed online or online pdf version, or the print version.
