Your Life is Worth Mine: How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-occupied
Poland, by Ewa Kurek. Hoppocrene Books of New York, 1997.
The fate of Jewish children during World War II is explored in depth by one of the “saved” Jewish children, Ewa Kurek. She helps her readers understand the Nazis’ efficient ways of meeting their murderous aims, the painful predicaments of Jewish children, and the willingness of some nuns to risk their lives to save the hunted little ones. She gives her readers fresh insights in the relationship between good and
evil.
Polish nuns in over 200 religious institutions of schools,
orphanages and convents saved over 1,200 Jewish children from the horrors of the Hitler regime. These nuns rescued the children even as they risked the death penalty themselves.
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Saint of the Week
St. Ansgar: Feb. 1. 801-65
The “apostle of the north” (Scandinavia) had enough frustrations to become a
saint—and he did. He became a Benedictine at Corbie, France, where he had been educated. Three years later, when the king of Denmark became a convert, Ansgar went to that country for three years of missionary work, without noticeable success. Sweden asked for Christian missionaries, and he went there, suffering capture by pirates and other hardships on the way. Fewer than two years later, he was recalled, to become abbot of New Corbie (Corvey) and bishop of Hamburg. The pope made him legate for
the Scandinavian missions. Funds for the northern apostolate stopped with Emperor Louis’s death. After 13 years’ work in Hamburg, Ansgar saw it burned to the ground by invading Northmen; Sweden and Denmark returned to paganism.
He directed new apostolic activities in the North, traveling to Denmark and being instrumental in the conversion of another king. By the strange device of
casting lots, the king of Sweden allowed the Christian missionaries to return.
Ansgar’s biographers remark that he was an extraordinary preacher, a humble and ascetical priest. He was devoted to the poor and the sick, imitating the Lord in washing their feet and waiting on them at table. He died peacefully at Bremen, Germany, without achieving his wish to be a
martyr.
Sweden became pagan again after his death, and remained so until the coming of missionaries two centuries later.
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