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Kolbe: A Saint in Auschwitz
Author(s): Desmond Forristal
Written by the former parish priest of Dalkey County in Dublin, the play, subtitled <em>The Saint of Auschwitz</em>, recreates the events surrounding Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan friar, imprisoned for hiding Jews, volunteered to be executed in Auschwitz in place of a Polish stranger (arbitrarily chosen as one of ten prisoners to die because of an escape), and ministered to other prisoners in the death camp. Kolbe was later named a saint and called "the patron saint of our difficult century."
Format:Drama
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Nationality of Author:Irish
Experience(s) Chronicled:Concentration and Extermination Camps | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators | Righteous Gentiles
Tags: prisoners, priest, Maximilian Kolbe
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