Monday, August 1, 2016

SISTER STELLA AND COMPANIONS (FEAST DAY ON AUGUST 1)



            We, the comrades of Unit 1012, will remember the Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek every year on August 1. It is their Feast Day. Let us not forget their sacrifice during the Holocaust.

  

The Eleven Nuns of Nowogródek by Adam Styka
The Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek, also known as the Eleven Nuns of Nowogródek or Sister Stella and Companions were a group of Roman Catholic nuns from the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth killed by the against the Gestapo in August 1943 in present-day Belarus.

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