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This 1976 portrait of St. Maximilian Kolbe, which sits in the lobby at Marytown, was painted by the brother of the condemned man Kolbe switched places with in the Auschwitz death camp.
Dan Moran, Lake County News-Sun
This 1976 portrait of St. Maximilian Kolbe, which sits in the lobby at Marytown, was painted by the brother of the condemned man Kolbe switched places with in the Auschwitz death camp.
Chicago Tribune
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This week’s 70th anniversary of Victory in Japan Day arrived on the same date as the annual commemoration of another story from World War II: The decision by a Catholic priest to take the place of a condemned prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp.