Madam President. last month a man who sacrificed his life so another could live was proclaimed a Saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Father Kolbe. a Polish priest. founded a monastery near Warsaw which became a haven for refugees during the Second World War. Suspected of being an enemy of the Third Reich. he was imprisoned at Auschwitz with a group of other Poles in 1941. A few months later. a member of the group escaped. Furious. the Nazis chose 10 men at random to die in retribution for their countrymans escape. One of the men chosen was a 40yearold peasant. with a wife and children.
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