Executed by Nazis at Auschwitz - Catholic Priest Maximilian Kolbe

World History

Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Catholic priest whose extraordinary act of self-sacrifice made him one of the most powerful moral symbols of the Holocaust and the Second World War. Born in 1894 in Zduńska Wola, then part of the Russian Empire, Kolbe became a Franciscan friar, missionary, publisher, an