8/27/2023 0 Comments August 27th, 2023Arrested by German Socialists, along with 21 friars of the Capuchin monastery on Miodowa Street, in Warsaw, Brother Gerwazy (born Roman Zawada) was shipped to Auschwitz death camp where he perished, June 8, 1942.
It was part of the Nazi’s Intelligenzaktion campaign (Intelligence Action, Intelligentsia mass shootings), when ethnic Polish intellectuals -- considered enemies of the Reich -- were massacred, to Germanize western Poland for future annexation, as part of its Lebensraum ("Living Space" needed for the food supply of the German people) propaganda used to justify expansion.
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