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Aug 15, 2018 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Czesława Kwoka was born in Wólka Złojecka #OnThisDay in 1928. Czesława and her mother, Katarzyna, were Roman Catholics: a group reviled by the Nazi Party.

She was murdered with a phenol injection to the heart at the age of 14.

Read her story.

facesofauschwitz.com/gallery/czesla…
Prominent Catholic leaders were persecuted and murdered in Auschwitz. Two of the best-known names are those of St. Maximilian Kolbe and St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.
Maximilian Kolbe was murdered by lethal injection on August 14, 1941. Edith Stein was sent to the gas chamber and murdered on August 9, 1942, soon after her arrival.

You can read more about them here too:

(The Catholic Saints of Auschwitz)
facesofauschwitz.com/gallery/czesla…

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