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D-Day’s 80th anniversary honors the past, aims to teach future generations, French bishop says

June 3, 2024
The Catholic Church in France prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Normandy landings June 6, a date known as D-Day that marked the beginning of the liberation of France and Europe from Nazi Germany's occupation during World War II.
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Wiktoria Ulma is pictured writing at a table with her oldest daughter, Stasia. Józef and Wiktoria Ulma secretly gave shelter to eight Jews for almost two years in German-occupied Poland, hiding them from the murderous Nazi regime during the Second World War. The Ulmas are on the path to beatification with the Vatican declaring them martyrs Dec. 17, 2022. The Nazis killed the family and the Jews they were sheltering early in the morning March 24, 1944, right before Easter. (OSV NEWS photo/courtesy Polish Institute of National Remembrance)

Polish family murdered by Nazis to be beatified Sept. 10

February 16, 2023
Urszula Niemczak keeps a regular schedule...
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Irena Sendler: World War II’s Polish Angel

May 15, 2020
Irena Sendlerowa (Sendler), a Catholic who became known as the "Polish Angel, " saved the lives of an estimated 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust.
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