Nationality Polish Religion Roman Catholic | Occupation nun Name Maria Kratochwil | |
Born 21 August 1881 ( 1881-08-21 ) Ostrava, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) Died October 2, 1942, Nazi Germany | ||
Maria Antonina Kratochwil (1881-1942) was among the 108 Martyrs of World War II and saved Jews during the war. 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.
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