About
Beatified by Pope Paul VI in 1971 and later canonized by Pope John Paul II, he heroically took the place of a stranger given a death sentence at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp.
Before Fame
He claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared to him when he was a child and asked him if he was willing to become a martyr.
Trivia
He hid 2,000 Jewish people from the Nazis before being arrested in 1941.
Family Life
He was born in Zduńska Wola in the Kingdom of Poland.
Associated With
He died in Auschwitz, a concentration camp established by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.
