Word: gajowniczek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...July 1941, a commandant at Auschwitz arbitrarily selected ten men to be starved to death in reprisal for the escape of one inmate. Francizek Gajowniczek, one of the ten, cried out for his wife and two children. Father Kolbe, 47, a political prisoner, offered to take Gajowniczek's place. Consigned to a basement cell, Kolbe survived about two weeks without food or water, consoling his fellow victims with prayers, until a prison guard finally killed him with an injection...
...Peter's Square was attended by 150,000 worshipers, among them 5,000 Catholics who came from Poland legally and hundreds of others who surreptitiously slipped out of that troubled country. After the rite, John Paul stepped down from the altar platform to kiss and embrace Gajowniczek, now 81, who had wept silently through the service. Gajowniczek recalls: "I was never able to thank him personally, but we looked into each other's eyes before he was led away...
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