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Kolbe: A Saint in Auschwitz
Author(s): Desmond Forristal
Written by the former parish priest of Dalkey County in Dublin, the play, subtitled The Saint of Auschwitz, recreates the events surrounding Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan friar, imprisoned for hiding Jews, volunteered to be executed in Auschwitz in place of a Polish stranger (arbitrarily chosen as one of ten prisoners to die because of an escape), and ministered to other prisoners in the death camp. Kolbe was later named a saint and called "the patron saint of our difficult century."
Format: Drama
Cast Size:32M/3F
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Nationality of Author: Irish
Original Language: English
Publisher:
Salesiana Publications, 1983 (out of print)
Experience(s) Chronicled: Righteous Gentiles | Concentration and Extermination Camps | Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators
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