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The Saint of Auschwitz

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On 14 August 1941, after two weeks of naked degradation, Maksymilian Kolbe was injected with poison, the last of ten men to die in the starvation bunker of Auschwitz.
Yet this 20th-century saint is accused of being anti-Semitic and through his publications, inciting anti-Semitism in Poland. Peter Firth explores the life and death of Maksymilian Kolbe.
Geoffrey Paul, Editor of the Jewish Chronicle explains the charge of anti-Semitism and The Most Rev Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury considers the nature of saints.
BBC Bristol
(long wave only)

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Firth
Speaker:
Geoffrey Paul
Speaker:
Robert Runcie
Writer:
Diana Dewar
Reader:
Christopher Rozycki
Reader:
Frank Duncan
Reader:
John Abineri
Reader:
Val Lorrain
Producer:
Stephen Oliver
Source: Radio Times

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