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Please be advised. This episode includes descriptions of violence, anti-Semitism, torture and discrimination. September 1940,

Warsaw, Nazi-occupied Poland.

Vitold Pilecki sits at a desk in a sparsely decorated apartment.

Dawn is breaking, and outside, the birds are beginning to sing.

In his hands are identity papers bearing the name Tomash Serafinski. Pelletsky almost smiles as

he mouths the unfamiliar alias, trying to get used to what will become his new identity.

Boleski is 39 years old, with high cheekbones and piercing pale blue eyes.

He carries himself with an upright posture and a serious, thoughtful military reserve.

He hears trucks pulling up outside the apartment block.

His sister-in-law, Eleonora, enters the room with a grim but determined expression on her face.

They're coming.

Eleonora looks in control,

but the tremble of the cigarette in her hand

betrays her nervousness.

Pelletsky pockets the identity documents

and follows her into the kitchen,

where her young son, Marek, is playing with a teddy bear.

The apartment blocks Caretaker,

bursts through the unlocked door, breathless in panic.

Mr. Peleski, the Germans are here.

They're rounding up all the young men.

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