Auschwitz - Roll Call of Light
On May 28, 1941, Father Maximilian, although suffering from severe tuberculosis, was transported along with 320 other prisoners at Auschwitz. It 'been treated no better, because it is a religion. Rather, they were more difficult to religion, finding a certain kind of joy, how much torture they could take before cracking.
Father Maximilian was a number, 16 670, where he was commissioned in Block 17 The guards were pushed, and struckFather, when he was too ill to walk. He struggled when he tried to drag the wheel barrels full of gravel needed to build walls to the crematorium. Oh, were not to build in the past with prisoners of their own means of torture or death. No matter how brutal, how they tried to humiliate him, he could not hate his father with violence. He had so much love in his eyes, made him lower his eyes, so you do not have to look into it.
Auschwitz Death Camp, or, as has beenis commonly called, was originally designed for the extermination of Jews. He added the Third Reich, the number of its martyrs: Danish, French, greek, Spanish, Flemish, Yugoslavia, German, Norwegian, Russian, Romanian, Hungarian, Italian and Polish undesirable, whose only crime was they were the leaders and intellectuals.
Even if the horror was not unique, was known to be the most efficient of all the concentration camps, the construction of a record of extinction3500 Enemies of the State within 24 hours. They were so good at her job, the sign above the entrance with the inscription "Work makes you free," were able to kill the prisoners on their arrival. Many of them did, others saved them for slave labor, while others are amused by their actions: to humiliate, to see how far he could bend a person with torture enough to do.
I think that was the saddest I've ever heard the testimony of a survivor of the concentration camps. He said that parents teach their childrengo before them in the showers (the Nazis called the gas chambers jokingly), so that they are not afraid, she reassured parents that all was in order, were after.
A fellow inmate testified that nothing they did to Father Maximilian was able to break his spirit. He lifted the other victims, saying: "No, No, these Nazis were not killing our souls, because we stand out of our prisoners, jailers certainly will not be able to deprive us ofDignity of our Catholic faith. We will not give up. And if we die, we die, pure and peaceful, resigned to God in our hearts. "
He infuriated the Nazis, as he and the Jews of Europe from Poland to crawl low to keep the animals, working with each other. To punish him, the guards were working to save the humiliating for him. There was a time, but also set their vicious dogs on him. They used to carry the corpses to the crematorium father. A former inmate testified: aMoment when he (the prisoner) was asked a young man is terribly destroyed the body and lacerated his stomach, the test only a part of the torture he suffered before his death to bear, it was rejected by the sight, had not is the strength or the stomach to raise it. Then he heard a soft voice, barely above a whisper: "Take him." When the young man led to the crematorium, which could help the prisoners to hear, "Holy Mary, pray for us." Father Maximilian was calling to her mother,and as he did with his son Jesus as he carried the cross, your eyes supported him. One day his father fell under the weight of the wood bearing. Face down in the mud, unable to stand, is the image I see before me, once again, that of Jesus on the Way of the Cross, when he fell for the third time. It was the first image of Father Maximilian? It was so he could get up? With his last strength, each day brought his sufferings, being made for the sins of his jailerwounded body, as his Jesus before him. He said over and over again: "To Jesus Christ, I am willing to suffer even more."
When he left the hospital, he was assigned to Cell Block 14 A prisoner escaping! The shrill alarm pierced the still dark night. The prisoners have been frozen, do not pray this part chosen to be executed. After the barbaric law of the camp, a prisoner escaped, ten men were chosen from his cell to die of hungerunderground bunker. They rounded up all the prisoners and had them stand at attention for three hours in the prison yard. Then they marched in their meager dinner, but all the men of Block 14! Instead, they were forced to watch helplessly as their rations were downloaded in the channel.
The next day, they were lined up under the scorching sun, like the rest of the prisoners went to work. They had nothing to eat or drink. His condition was so unbearablemany of them collapsed and the guards did not even brutal beatings he could wake her. They just dumped them, one above the other in a heap.
As night falls, the rest of the prisoners returned. They were fed, and those of block 14 in order to see what happens when someone escaping. And then the dreaded announcement: "Since the refugee has not been found, ten of you are sentenced to death." Commander Fritsch delighted when he went back and forth, before the prisonersLock 14 could see the fear in their eyes, could read his thoughts, O God, let me not be.
"Goodbye, my friends, we meet again, where there is justice," came from another sob: "Long live Poland!" "Goodbye, Farewell, my dear wife, well, my dear children, already orphaned by your father," said Sergeant Francis Gajowniczek.
A prisoner of Block 14 came out of the lineup. It 'was Father Maximilian! He was assigned to Block 14 had to bear allThe torture stopped. He walked slowly and quietly to the captain. He stopped in front of Fritsch. The view was blind! There was a silence that was lined by men. Nobody in the history of the field had never done anything like this before.
They looked, they tried to take away their eyes, but they could not or would not. Suddenly, I fell no fear of this man, men, animals, he is no longer a threat. The man before him, his chest sunken, slightlymore of meat hanging on a thin bone, had the upper hand. The captain was stunned frozen. She was afraid of what or who he was seen? I do not remember a thousand lives before, his mother told him the Savior who gave His life for him?
The master has found his voice, regaining his composure, he shouted: "What does the Polish pig want?" Maximilian's father, indicating Gajowniczek Sergeant Francis said:
"I am a Polish Catholic priest, I am old, I want to takehis place because he has a wife and children ... "
Father Maximilian was 47 years old!
The underground bunker, Block 11, was a chamber of horrors. It 'was closed by a wall 21 meters high, the prisoners have no communication with the outside. Once inside, the prisoners knew that would leave only as corpses, on the way to the crematorium. Only a couple of Poles were in any kind of contact with the bunker, which the Nazis to make the body, etc. This is how we all haveIdea of what happened. They brought the father and the other nine to 11 bunkers has pulled all his clothes and left her, mockingly, "We are going to dry up like tulips!" A Polish man later testified, when they went into the bunker, it seemed as if the angels escorted the prisoners to sing hymns to Jesus and Mary.
At the end of the third week, there were four left, Father Maximilian was one of them! Thus the need for more bunkers prisoners, called the director ofRoom of the sick, the notorious and evil Boch. He raised his left arm of the prisoner. When she looked at him helplessly, injects them with toxic acid.
Father Maximilian died on the eve of the feast of the Annunciation and its in the sky. Witnesses said that when he saw him, was wrapped in a stream of light, almost transfigured. It 'was Friday, August 15, the men came to his body and laid him in a crate. It 'was taken to the ovens.
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