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Witness History: Maximilian Kolbe: 'The Saint of Auschwitz'

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24/10/2018 GMT

Maximilian Kolbe: 'The Saint of Auschwitz'

BBC World Service - Witness History, Maximilian Kolbe: 'The Saint of Auschwitz'

The Polish priest who was declared a saint for swapping his life for a stranger's

The Polish priest who was declared a saint for swapping his life for a stranger's at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941.

In October 1982, the Polish priest, Father Maximilian Kolbe, was canonised for sacrificing his own life to save another prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two. Simon Watts uses the BBC archives to tell the story of the man the Vatican considers the “Patron Saint of the 20th Century”.

(Photo: Maximilian Kolbe at his monastery in Poland in 1927. Credit: Keystone/Getty Images)

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