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dalekstripper: On this day in 1948, Witold Pilecki, a Polish spy was executed for aiding foreign espionage among a dozen other charges after a fake trial and repeated gruesome torture. Pilecki joined the Polish army in 1939 and fought on the front lines against the German invasion to Poland. A few months later, he was invited into the Polish Secret Army (TAP) and soon after became a founding member and commander. By 1940, Pilecki was ready to present his plan to his higher-ups: He was ready to PURPOSELY PLACE HIMSELF IN AUSCHWITZ in order to gain intelligence on what was happening inside. At this time, virtually nothing was known about the inside of these camps and Pilecki acknowledged that something needed to be done to find out. The plan was accepted and on September 19, 1940, he went on a street that the TAP knew there would be a round-up on of Jews.  During his three years in Auschwitz, Pilecki gave invaluable information to the TAP that helped them find out the situation in the camps, the makeup of the Nazi army, and much more. His reports even began being forwarded to British Intelligence to help them figure out how to best attack the army and deal with the camps. Meanwhile, he survived two bouts of pneumonia and just generally being a prisoner in Auschwitz. When he finally broke out of the camp, he managed to bring across hugely important German documents with statistics about the army and the camps themselves.  In 1944 when the Warsaw Uprising took place, Pilecki once again found himself in the resistance movement and once again assumed some command. He and his soldiers were inside the Greater Bastion of Warsaw, which basically did an awesome job destroying German supplies and infantrymen. Pilecki was soon caught and spent  a year in a Prisoner of War camp, this time unintentionally. Once he was out, he basically went straight back to being fucking awesome and started gathering intelligence on the Soviet Gulags until he was once again arrested in May of 1947, this time by Poland’s Ministry of Public Security. He was put on trial in March of the following year, but in those 10 months he was savagely tortured for information on the resistance movement. His trial was simply a show trial and he was unsurprisingly found guilty of crimes ranging from crossing the border illegally to conspiring the assassination of Polish officials and was sentenced to death. (The picture above is from this trial) Though Pilecki has now been given the honors he deserves, he died at the hands of the system he had fought against and without even a marked grave. Spare him a thought today. He was pretty fucking badass.
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littlepennydreadful: Victorian Sitting Room.
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loverofbeauty: Brighton Swimming Club, 1863
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The eyes of a Frozen Ukrainian Bride 
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Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2007
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John Galliano Spring/Summer 2010
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midnight-gallery: The Curse of the Crying Boy Painting. In 1988, a mysterious explosion destroyed the home of the Amos family in Heswall, England. When firemen sifted through the burnt-out shell of the house, they found a framed picture, entitled ‘The Crying Boy’, which was a portrait of an angelic-looking boy with a sorrowful expression and a tear rolling down his cheek. But the picture was not even singed by the blaze. Not long afterwards in Bradford, there was another blaze, and again a picture of the crying child was found intact among the smouldering ruins. The head of the Yorkshire Fire Brigade told the national newspapers that pictures of the weird Crying Boy were frequently found intact in the rubble of houses that had been mysteriously burnt to the ground. The reports of the unlucky painting causing fires are still occasionally reported; there was a Crying Boy picture found at a gutted house in Dublin in 1998, but no one as ever found out just who the child is in the supposedly cursed painting. One well-respected researcher into occult matters, a retired schoolmaster from Devon named George Mallory, claimed that to have uncovered the truth in 1995. Mr Mallory claimed he tracked down the artist behind the controversial portrait: an old Spanish postcard artist named Franchot Seville, who lives in Madrid. Seville said the Crying boy was a little street urchin he had found wandering around Madrid in 1969. He never spoke, and had a very sorrowful look in his eyes. Seville painted the boy, and a Catholic priest said the Boy was Don Bonillo, a child who had run away after seeing his parents die in a blaze. The priest told the artist to have nothing to do with the runaway, because wherever he settled, fires of unknown origin would mysteriously break out; the villagers called him ‘Diablo’ because of this. Seville ignored the superstitious priest and looked after the boy. The paintings of the little sad orphan made Seville fairly rich, but one day, his studio was mysteriously burned to the ground. Seville was ruined, and he accused the little Don Bonillo of arson. The boy ran off crying, and was never seen again. Then, from all over Europe came the reports of the unlucky Crying Boy paintings causing blazes. Seville was also regarded as a jinx, and no one commissioned him to paint, or would even look at his paintings. In 1976, a car exploded into a fireball on the outskirts of Barcelona after crashing into a wall. The victim was charred beyond recognition, but part of the victim’s driving licence in the glove compartment was only partly burned. The name on the licence was one 19-year-old Don Bonillo; could this have been the same Don Bonillo who had been the subject of the Crying Boy painting eight years earlier? We will probably never know, as no friends or relations ever came forward for the body.
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charmaineolivia: Pam et Jenny
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