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Jacek Dabrowski remembers Maximilian Kolbe

Jacek Dabrowski remembers visiting Maximilian Kolbe at his monastery before Kolbe was taken prisoner. Dabrowski was taken to Pawiak prison only two weeks after Kolbe was deported from Pawiak to Auschwitz.

clip, male, political prisone, Maximilian Kolbe / Friday, August 12, 2016

Jan Dudzinski on Maximillian Kolbe

Jan Dudzinski recalls his interaction with a priest he would later discover was Maximillian Kolbe at Pawiak prison.

clip, male jewish survivor, Jan Dudzinski, Maximillian Kolbe / Friday, August 12, 2016

Michael Preisler on Father Kolbe's Sacrifice

Michael Preisler explains the story of Maximilian Kolbe volunteering himself in place of another prisoner, who was going to be killed. Preisler was a prisoner at Pawiak prison after Kolbe had been deported from Pawiak to Auschwitz.

clip, jewish survivor, Michael Preisler, Maximillan Kolbe / Friday, August 12, 2016

Remembering Father Maximillian Kolbe

A Franciscan friar and Catholic priest, Maximillian Koble sacrificed his life for another man in Auschwitz. After 14 days of being confined in a prison cell without food or water Kolbe was murdered by SS guards. Kolbe was beatified and then canonized as a saint by Pope John Paul II in 1982, and known as “The Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century.”

Maximillian Kolbe / Friday, August 12, 2016

Religious Resistance in Auschwitz: The Sacrifice of Saint Kolbe

Maximilian Kolbe, born in Poland in 1894, was a Franciscan friar and Catholic priest. He spent most of his life studying theology and dedicating himself to the church, traveling across Europe and Asia during his lifetime.

St Kolbe, résistance, GAM, op-eds / Friday, August 12, 2016

ITeach Seminar: Detroit

The three-day training will introduce participating educators in the greater Detroit area to IWitness and strategies for using testimony in the classroom, including how to integrate testimony across the curriculum and how to create testimony-curriculum plans for their individual classrooms.

/ Friday, August 12, 2016

ITeach Seminar: Czech Republic

A one-day, intermediate level session focused on the refugee experience. This session introduces educators in Brno, Czech Republic to the use of testimony as an educational resource, emphasizing Czech language activities in IWitness. Learn more about our work in Czech Republic

iwitness / Friday, August 12, 2016

IWitness Professional Development Webinar

USC Shoah Foundation's educational platform, IWitness continues hosting free webinars for educators throughout 2016. These webinars aim to provide a more in-depth and interactive approach to learning how to teach with testimony.

IWitness Webinar / Friday, August 12, 2016

IWitness at the 2016 Illinois Reading Council

USC Shoah Foundation will lead a session at the Illinois Reading Council (IRC) Conference, introducing educators to IWitness and the use of testimony as an educational resource.

iwitness / Friday, August 12, 2016

ITeach Seminar: Detroit

The one-day training will introduce Detroit area educators to IWitness and strategies for using testimony in the classroom, including how to integrate testimony across the curriculum and how to create testimony-curriculum plans for their individual classrooms.

iwitness detroit / Friday, August 12, 2016

ITeach Seminar: Detroit