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The Holocaust has a history of disgrace and torture, a period of time where people had forgotten the meaning of humanity, but among those who had fallen into darkness and only sought for evilness there were some who refused to let themselves be engulfed into it and did all they could to save as many people as possible. Those were people who risked their lives in an act of courage to help and free the people affected by the Holocaust.     During the horror that the Holocaust was just a few dared to

Saint Maximilian Kolbe grew up in the WWII era in Poland. He had a vision of Mary in his childhood, and this helped bring him to be religious. He became a priest and came to the monastery of Niepokalanów which is near Warsaw, Poland. During Nazi rule, he helped to shelter and feed many Jews who came to the monastery looking for help and shelter from the Nazis. In 1941 he was arrested and taken to a concentration camp for hiding Jews. There he was

Polska in 1919 and began spreading his militia of the Immaculata movement of mother consecration, which he based on Gregorian calendar month sixteen, 1917. In 1927, he established an evangelization center close to national capital referred to as Niepokalanow, the “City of the Immaculate.” By 1939, the City had enlarged from eighteen friars to almost 900, making it the largest Catholic spiritual house within the world. m To influence the world to require the Immaculata, the friars utilized the most

What is a saint? A saint is a person of great holiness, who has performed miracles for God’s cause. What is a martyr? A martyr is someone who dies for what they believe in, just like Maximilian Kolbe. Raymund Maximilian Kolbe was born January 8, 1894. He was born in Zdunska Wola, in Poland. Both parents, Marianna and Juliusz, were very holy, and dedicated much of their time and money to teach their children about the catholic faith. (Gale BIC, 2) They were both poor weavers, who traded with Jewish

“The most deadly poison of our time is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise him to the greatest extent of our powers” (Kolbe Quotes). This is Maximilian Kolbe’s most famous quotes, it means to believe in God as much as we can. Maximilian Kolbe was the most courageous and brave hero of the Holocaust. Maximilian Kolbe was born on January 8, 1894, in Poland. His father was German and his mother was Polish, Kolbe’s family

Good Morning, I am a fellow student of ELA 8 period 7-8. In this class we had read the story fearless where it is about a girl who sacrifices her life for the good of the girls in the institute. As a well known fact, people who do stand up for what they believe in can determine the future values of the next generation. Those people also bring hope to others that are hopeless. Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Literature can help us define the greater good

Raymond Kolbe was born the second son of five (only three of whom will live) to a poor weaver Julius Kolbe and midwife Maria Dąbroska on January 8, 1894. Raymond was born in Zduńska Wola, a small town in central Poland. Shortly after his birth, however; they moved to another polish town, Pabianice, about twenty-five miles east of Zduńska Wola. The Kolbes were poor, but their country was in much worse shape. Poland's lands were split among Russia, Austria, and Prussia. Despite of the changes, the

St. Luke and Discipleship I have already previously defined the meaning of a disciple. So we know a disciple is a follower of someone. There are two different disciples, one is a follower of someone religious such as Jesus and the other is a follower of someone with an inspiring talent like a singer. I have also described biblical examples of Jesus' call to his first disciples. From this we learnt about the importance of trust and priority (that the Lord is the most