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“St. Maximillian Kolbe who offered himself in place of another when they were taken to starve to death.

Of course it should be noted that “Saint” Kolbe did not offer himself up in place of a Jew, but a non-Jew, and that prior to his arrest, Kolbe was an antisemitic editor of an antisemitic Catholic journal.”

I forgot to mention that the OTHER side of my paternal family in Munich were Jews.

Friendlys can Freepmail if you want to know my Jewish name.

Don’t pull the anti-Semite card on me.

“Maximilian studied at Rome and was ordained in 1919. He returned to Poland and taught Church history in a seminary. He built a friary just west of Warsaw, which eventually housed 762 Franciscans and printed eleven periodicals (one with a circulation of over a million), including a daily newspaper.

In 1930, he went to Asia, where he founded friaries in Nagasaki and in India. In 1936, he was recalled to supervise the original friary near Warsaw. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, he knew that the friary would be seized, and sent most of the friars home. He was imprisoned briefly and then released, and returned to the friary, where he and the other friars began to organize a shelter for 3,000 Polish refugees, among whom were 2,000 Jews. The friars shared everything they had with the refugees. They housed, fed and clothed them, and brought all their machinery into use in their service.”

“, the community came under suspicion and was watched closely. Then, in May 1941, the friary was closed down and Maximilian and four companions were taken to Auschwitz, where they worked with the other prisoners, chiefly at carrying logs. Maximilian carried on his priestly work surreptitiously, hearing confessions in unlikely places and celebrating the Lord’s Supper.” SNIP

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Kolbe.html

THIS IS THE JEWISH VIRTUAL LIBRARY.