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cell in which Maximilian Kolbe died
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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.)"
Friedrich