Franciszek gajowniczek biography of abraham

          | A Jew, Abraham Bernstein, was born in Malmö.!

          Two months later he offered up his life in exchange for that of a stranger, Franciszek Gajowniczek, sentenced to death by starvation in reprisal for the escape.

        1. Two months later he offered up his life in exchange for that of a stranger, Franciszek Gajowniczek, sentenced to death by starvation in reprisal for the escape.
        2. Franciszek Gajowniczek, the Polish army sergeant whose life was spared when a Franciscan monk took his death sentence at Auschwitz 53 years ago, died on Monday.
        3. | A Jew, Abraham Bernstein, was born in Malmö.
        4. The Nazis had randomly selected 10 prisoners to die, as reprisal for the escape of a prisoner; and Franciszek Gajowniczek was one of the When he was picked.
        5. The 10 selected included Franciszek (Francis) Gajowniczek, who was imprisoned for helping the Polish Resistance.

          6. Franciszek Gajowniczek

          Polish Army officer

          Franciszek Gajowniczek (15 November 1901 – 13 March 1995) was a Polish armysergeant whose life was saved at the Auschwitz concentration camp by Catholic priestMaximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in his place.

          Gajowniczek had been sent to Auschwitz concentration camp from a Gestapo prison in Tarnów. He was captured while crossing the border into Slovakia after the defeat of the Modlin Fortress during the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany.

          Gajowniczek survived the war and afterward became a lay missionary, dedicating his life to spreading the story of Kolbe's sacrifice.

          Biography

          Franciszek Gajowniczek, a Roman Catholic, was born in Strachomin near Mińsk Mazowiecki.

          After the reconstitution of sovereign Poland, he moved to Warsaw in 1921, married, and had two sons.[1] He was a professional soldier, a Polish armysergeant, who took part in the defense of Wieluń as well as Warsaw in September 1939 during the 193