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Aug 14, 2020 · On July 29, 1941, after Polish prisoner Zygmunt Pilawski fled Auschwitz, Nazi SS guards grabbed 10 other prisoners to die for the man’s escape. Father Kolbe heard one of the men chosen,...
Aug 14, 2015 · Franciszek Gajowniczek (pronounced guy-of-KNEE-check) stood near the altar after Communion on Saturday evening and spoke to the congregation through an interpreter, Maria McGinn, a parishioner...
Aug 14, 2016 · Upon hearing that he was sentenced to die, Franciszek Gajowniczek - a sergeant in the Polish army and father of two - burst into tears, prompting the Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe to approach the...
Aug 14, 2021 · I am alone. I am a Catholic priest,'" Gajowniczek told the NY Times in 1995. In an interview with ACI Stampa, CNA’s Italian language sister news agency, Fr. Raffaele Di Muro, said this act of...
Franciszek Gajowniczek, a Roman Catholic, was born in Strachomin near Mińsk Mazowiecki. After the reconstitution of sovereign Poland, he moved to Warsaw in 1921, married, and had two sons. [1] He was a professional soldier, a Polish army sergeant, who took part in the defense of Wieluń as well as Warsaw in September 1939 during the 1939 ...
Aug 17, 2023 · In the last days of July that year, following a prisoner's escape, the camp supervisor sentenced 10 inmates from the same unit to death by starvation in retaliation. Franciszek Gajowniczek, one of the accused, implored for mercy on behalf of his spouse and offspring.
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Mar 15, 1995 · Franciszek Gajowniczek, the Polish army sergeant whose life was spared when a Franciscan monk took his death sentence at Auschwitz 53 years ago, died on Monday in the Polish city of Brzeg. He...
