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A man for others : Maximilian Kolbe, Saint of Auschwitz, in the words of those who knew him
- Title
- A man for others : Maximilian Kolbe, Saint of Auschwitz, in the words of those who knew him / Patricia Treece.
- Author
- Treece, Patricia
- Publication
- San Francisco : Harper & Row, ©1982.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | BX4705.K625 T73 1982 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 198 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Maximilian Kolbe was born in 1894 in southern Poland and declared a saint on October 10 1982, by Pope John Paul II (for whom he is a spiritual hero). A Man for Others chronicles Kolbe's remarkable life, which climaxed in 1941 in Auschwitz, where he volunteered to die in place of a fellow prisoner he hardly knew. Told chiefly in the words of his family, friends, acquanitances, and death-camp survivors -- including the man he died for -- A Man for Others is the story of an innovative, down-to-earth, and immensely likable man whose martyr's death concluded a life devoted to his ideal of "love without limits." Maximilian Kolbe is a real hero for our times and an inspiration for any reader." --
- "Those who knew him tell of the life of the German martyr who, sent to a concentration camp for his defiance of the Nazi's, voluntarily took the place of a young man with a family who was about to be sent to the gas chamber." --
- Subject
- Kolbe, Maximilian, Saint, 1894-1941
- Kolbe, Maximilian, Saint, 1894-1941
- Kolbe, Maximilian
- Kolbe, Maksymilian M
- Christian saints > Poland > Biography
- Christian martyrs > Poland > Biography
- Christianity
- Nazi concentration camps
- Concentration Camps
- Christianity
- concentration camps
- Christian martyrs
- Christian saints
- Poland
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 185-192.
- Contents
- The boy -- The student -- At work -- Niepokalanow : the city of Mary -- Japan -- Poland, 1936-1939 -- War -- Open heart and hands -- Kolbe and his enemies -- The last months -- Arrest -- Pawiak prison -- Auschwitz -- Some of his friends -- The last battle -- The Tabernacle.
- ISBN
- 9780060670696
- 006067069X
- LCCN
- 82048404
- OCLC
- ocm08764555
- 8764555
- SCSB-84093
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library