Maria Antonina Kratochwil
Anna Maria Kratochwil | |
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| Born | 21 August 1881 |
| Died | 2 October 1942 (aged 61) |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Occupation | nun |
Maria Antonina Kratochwil (1881-1942) was among the 108 Martyrs of World War II[1] and saved Jews during the war.[2] A member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, she taught in present-day Ivano-Frankivsk, a city in western Ukraine with a large Polish Jewish population at that time, and was arrested after the Nazis occupied the region in 1939 for rescuing and harboring local Jews. She was tortured and died at a prison camp. A short book was published about her life in 2001.[3]
References
- ^ Secular Franciscan Order
- ^ Avenue of the Righteous
- ^ Amata Kupka (2001). Błogosławiona siostra Maria Antonina Kratochwil. Wydaw. Duszpasterstwa Rolników. ISBN 978-83-88743-94-8.
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