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He offered his life in place of another man condemned to death and in so doing became a martyr to the truth.

A biography of the Polish friar canonized in 1982, who founded the Militia of the Immaculate, wrote numerous periodicals and newspapers, and while imprisoned in Auschwitz, sacrificed his life for another man.

True-life account of Hungarian gynecologist Dr. Gisella Perl, who survived the Holocaust by working as the head of the women's infirmary at Auschwitz, a fact that lands her in serious political trouble when she emigrates to the United States in 1946.