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Cell in which prisoners died who were sentenced to death by starvation as a result of collective responsibility for escapes. One of them was Father Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish Priest who sacrificed his life to save another prisoner. "Franciszek Gajnowiczek....is
a stooped, gray-haired man who has survived
Auschwitz to testify that when he was selected
at random for execution one day in 1941,
a Franciscan priest named Maximilian Kolbe
stepped forward and volunteered to take
his place, and did take his place and did
die. (The Vatican in due time proclaimed
Kolbe to be beatified and well on the way
to sainthood.)"
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