Maximilian Kolbe and the Love That Steps Forward
In the summer of 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. The SS guards selected ten men to die by starvation as punishment. When Franciszek Gajowniczek...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Romans 5:5b-11.
In the summer of 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. The SS guards selected ten men to die by starvation as punishment. When Franciszek Gajowniczek was chosen and cried out for his wife and children, a small Polish priest stepped from the ranks. Father Maximilian Kolbe, prisoner 16670, volunteered to take his place. Gajowniczek had done nothing to earn this sacrifice.…
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