On this day 81 years ago (August 14th 1941) at the Auschwitz Death Camp in German-Occupied Poland.
(St. Maximilian Kolbe)
(Franciszek Gajowniczek)
Ten Polish Prisoners had been
condemned to die after a Prisoner had escaped. When the ten were selected, one
begged and pleaded to be saved for his Wife and Children.
His name was Franciszek
Gajowniczek and he was a Polish Army Sargent.
Fr. Maximilian Kolbe, a
Franciscan Friar and fellow Prisoner, had stepped forward and asked to take the
place of the Family Man. The offer was accepted. The ten were marched off to a Starvation
Bunker. As one by one they died, Fr. Maximilian comforted them.
The last Survivor of the ten, Fr.
Maximilian was executed by lethal injection on August 14. The Man he died to
save was present in St. Peter's Square in 1982 when Fr. Maximilian was
proclaimed St. Maximilian Kolbe.
Franciszek Gajowniczek died in
1995 at 93 years old.
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