The Man Who Stayed
In July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. As punishment, SS guards selected ten men from the block to die by starvation. When Franciszek Gajowniczek...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Acts 16:16-34.
In July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. As punishment, SS guards selected ten men from the block to die by starvation. When Franciszek Gajowniczek was chosen and cried out for his wife and children, a Polish Franciscan priest named Maximilian Kolbe stepped forward. "I would like to take his place," he said quietly. The guards, stunned, agreed. For two weeks, Kolbe led the condemned men in prayer and hymns inside that starvation bunker.…
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