history / Modern History
Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan friar imprisoned for sheltering Jews and publishing anti-Nazi literature. He quietly approached the commandant and said, “I am a Catholic priest. I want to die in place of that man. I am old; he has a wife and children.”
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In the summer of 1941, inside the barbed-wire hell of Auschwitz, a single act of selfless courage pierced the darkness. When a prisoner escaped, the Nazi guards retaliated by selecting ten men to die by …