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Maria Antonina Kratochwil
Polish Roman Catholic religious sister and martyr / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maria Antonina Kratochwil (21 August 1881 – 7 October 1942)[1] was beatified by Pope John Paul II as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II.[2] She tried to help the Jews survive during the Holocaust.[3] A member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame residing in the Kresy region of the Polish Second Republic before the war began; she was arrested along with her sisters by Nazi Germans a year after Operation Barbarossa of 1941, and singled out for anti-Nazi activities. She was severely beaten while in prison, contracted typhus, and died upon her hasty release.[4]
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Born | (1881-08-21)21 August 1881 Ostrava, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) |
Died | 2 October 1942(1942-10-02) (aged 61) Stanisławów, occupied Poland |
Beatified | June 13, 1999, Warsaw, Poland by Pope John Paul II |
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