The HORRIFIC Execution Of The 11 Nuns That Stood Up To The Germans

Throughout the Second World War, there were a number of horrific executions carried out of innocent civilians and people as the conflict came to their doorstep. The German Army rampaged throughout different lands, and when placed under occupation often towns and villages suffered heavily. Inside a Polish town named Nowogrodek, there was a group of Nuns who were incredibly well respected and liked but they too would suffer heavily from the persecution. Inside of Nowogrodek, over 10,000 people had been executed and further round-ups and executions occurred almost on a daily basis. The Germans were ruthless inside the town, but the Nuns wanted to bring an end to this evil, so they decided to sacrifice themselves.
After a meeting, they approached the Germans and offered their lives in sacrifice for the release of any other prisoners held by the Gestapo. To begin with the Germans accepted this, and spared some prisoners meaning the Nuns did save lives. But they then in 1943 arrested 11 of them, and took them into a forest where a mass grave had been dug. Here then brutally executed the nuns in cold blood, and the story of the Nuns of Nowogrodek is one which deserves to be remembered and told.
Join us today as we look at, 'The HORRIFIC Execution Of The 11 Nuns That Stood Up To Hitler.' Remember to support our channel, please make sure to subscribe.
Check out our SECOND CHANNEL TheFortress for a new video EVERY DAY! Subscribe to this by clicking this link:
/ thefortresss
Thanks for watching! Support the channel by subscribing, liking, and sharing.
Follow me on Twitter: / theuntoldpast
Follow me on Instagram: theuntoldpast
Disclaimer: All opinions and comment stated below in the Comments section do not represent the opinion of TheUntoldPast. All opinions and comments and dialogue should discuss the video above in a historical manner.
TheUntoldPast does not accept any racism, profanity, insults, sexism or any negative discussion aimed at an individual. TheUntoldPast has the right to delete any comment with this content inside it and also ban the user from the channel.

[@bensears7499]

I am not Catholic, but I can respect them standing up to evil. How many Televangelists would do that?

[@peterjohndutoit]

Evangelical Christians are the most ‘un-Christ-like’ bigots ever.

[@hymatwat9412]

Most of those are con men

[@rayjacques8850]

Great comment Ben, so many so called Pastors are light years away from the truth and any semblance of true Christian conviction

[@bensears7499]

@@rayjacques8850 Hey. I get both sides. Believing and non believing. My wife is Catholic, I am non-denominational. When in doubt, I look at the red letter words that Jesus spoke. To be Christian is to follow Christ and There are followers everywhere. Televangelist have a problem with money, a huge temptation to be a business. Some get so much praise that they forget who the praise should be for. If you look at the persecuted churches ( China, Iran, Africa, etc.), there are movements of The Holy Spirit in them. They operate on pure faith. We have to bridge the gap between the spiritual reality and physical reality. Christ is our compass. When I say nonbelievers, I mean in Christ, not by denomination.

[@dawnrobbins5877]

Zero. Most of them are predators who steal social security checks from the elderly.

[@mikejackson19828]

It wasn't execution, it was murder!

[@DVincentW]

Execution and murder are synonymous. It was a formal ceremony, a public killing. Both mean the same in this occurrence.j

[@sosa8748]

@mike Jackson quiet foo

[@matthewestrada5217]

I don't think the nuns cared about the difference

[@donaldpepera2928]

More a double cross, since the Catholic church presided over the Coronation of Hitler.

[@kylefarr3655]

All execution is murder. It comes down to if it was justified or not.

[@LtRee96se]

This story needs to be told, lest we forget, that there are those who are willing to give up their lives to prevent evil and save others. Thank you for sharing this.

[@julioalcaraz5417]

There should be a movie 🎥 made about these nuns, least we forget

[@opinionsvary]

In my opinion: Yeah, but it's all about Jewish people unfortunately for historical fact.

[@tommcconville677]

Amen, I completely agree

[@warrenoleary2168]

Excellent point. Christians being murdered by the Nazis takes is down played by the leftist press & historians; religious bigotry !

[@pamtnman1515]

I am constantly amazed that anyone today could idolize the evil Nazi Germans.

[@wfm5121954]

Nuns live to serve Christ. They accept whatever this promise brings including martyrdom. This execution is beyond cruel. They are innocents.

[@spudpud-T67]

Imagine the joy they felt giving everything for their faith.

[@riethaefkens5722]

Mag nooit vergeten

[@formicapple2]

Indeed they are. R.I.P sisters.

[@recabitejehonadab2654]

Nuns served the corrupt sinful Catholic Church that molests and kills people.

[@formicapple2]

@@recabitejehonadab2654 not all nuns. Not all monks. Not all priests. Not all bishops.

[@dianayano4828]

I was taught by the sisters of the Holy Family of Nazereth, and I remember seeing this photo in the classroom. One of our teachers told us about their martyrdom and we prayed for them. I will never forget how horrified I was seeing this picture. I hope I could be that brave to die for my Lord Jesus.

[@ElleCee62978]

Same. They were the best teachers. My one teacher, Sr. Marceline gave me a prayer card with the painting and a book.

[@carmelrea352]

God bless them.

[@patricklonski]

I was taught by Holy Family Sisters in Grade School in Chicago in the early 60's. I was not aware of this story.

[@ElleCee62978]

@@patricklonski As far as I know it really didn’t become public knowledge until the 70s.

[@patricklonski]

@@ElleCee62978 I have a vague recollection of the picture in the school but it was a very long time ago. Also, my great aunt (my father's aunt) was a member of the order.

[@vickil6325]

I never heard this story before and I'm 69 yrs old. Thank you for sharing. I happened to come to this video and decide to listen. What courage it took. I can imagine peace fell over them before they died.

[@RissaFirecat]

They had their faith. Wow. God is good.

[@JoeXTheXJuggalo1]

Yes there is many stories like this that may not been know to many. Some stories that are hidden and locked away that may never be know at all.

[@NordeggSonya]

While the mortal body fears its death the soul knows it goes on. We go back to God.

[@warrenoleary2168]

Me too and I am 70 years old !

[@sharonbyars3493]

😢79 yo female sad, never heard of this

[@cynthiaswearingen1037]

There is no greater gift than this, that a man gives his life for a friend. May these blessed sisters rest in peace.

[@hannapiasecka-shaw2521]

...and I heaven....

[@kittybitts567]

In Jesus' Holy Name, Amen

[@degsbabe]

Gives his life for a friend ? These brides of Jesus gave it all. And the truely evil Nazi regime was....exposed.

[@renee1961]

The Nuns were Incredibly Faithful, and Amazingly Courageous. Rest In Peace 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

[@AlexMartinez-me2yc]

I remember reading a passage in the Bible that said do not fear a killer, for all they can do is kill the flesh.

[@Vod-Kaknockers]

Matthew 10:28

[@jeffreyb8770]

The Bible says 'do not fear' 365 times.

[@chrissilvester5663]

Total respect to each & every single one of these nuns who showed immense courage & bravery to stand up against Hitler's evil reign by sacrificing themselves in order to save innocent people. It's these kinda people that should never be forgotten about those that sacrificed themselves in helping others live. These are true heros of war far as I'm concerned

[@markdeegan7268]

Amen

[@maryshaffer8474]

No guns revolt

[@wms72]

The Third Reich would have WON if not for the American military

[@chrisothemis8576]

Good ever forgets

[@aprilallen5623]

They were fighting against Hitler just by supporting the community and their faith.

[@penguinsfan251]

Robespierre did something similar to Carmelite nuns accused of being enemies of the Revolution. 20 of them were executed by the guillotine. Brave souls.

[@kittybitts567]

Yes, they were stripped of their habits and put in common not very nice clothes, but they sang all the way to their execution. I think the youngest was in her teens. Evil hates purity. Evil hates good.

[@prarieborn6458]

Yes, and if I may, I woud like to tell more of this story. The sisters had been denounced by one ormore women “citizens” in the town and the Sisters were ordered to leave the convent , lay aside their Carmeite habits & live ike ordinary citizens. For atime they obeyed, but later they came together and offered thier lives to God as a sacrifice to bring and end to “The Terror” They openly wore their habits again and were arrested, tried and sent to the guilotine, As the townspeople watched, the Sisters sang as one, by one they each mounted the scaffold and died. Their Reverend Mother was the last to go, but there were no more sisters to sing for her. The story goes, that the townspeople were so moved and struck with shame at what they witnessed that they knelt down and prayed for the Reverend Mother as she climbed the scaffold alone and in silence, died. A few days later, Robespierre, the architect of the Terror of the Guilotine,,who had denounced even his closest associates, was himsef denounced and executed. He was the last to die by the guillotine. Thus, God answered the prayer of the Carmelites and accepted their sacrifice and the Terror was ended in France. It would be good to know about the lves that were saved through the selfess and wiling sacrifice the Polish Nuns made. Does history record or does anyone know the “rest of the. story”? Were there any prisoners released or persons in hiding who escaped the Nazis who later recorded their story and attributed it to the sacrifice these Nuns made? THANK YOU for pubishing this story,, for the world to know and remember now, as again there is war in Europe and again, innocents are being saughtered. Let us pray for Peace 🙏🌹🙏🌹✝️ “ Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered : And let them that hate Him flee from before His Face” Psam 67:2. 🙏. from 🇺🇸

[@LisaHawkinsHotJava]

Yes: German writer Gertrud von le Fort wrote a novel based on that very incident and published in 1931: "The Song at The Scaffold". The great French composer Francis Poulenc composed the opera "Dialogues of the Carmelites" (premiered January 1957 at La Scala, Milan). Three years later the French-Italian movie "Le Dialogue des Carmélites" was released (June 1960). French actress Jeanne Moreau and Italian actress Alida Valli headed the cast. I'm now beginning to study the story and its evolution. There are many lessons for us today - as we see here, there is nothing new under the sun. Thank you to THEUNTOLDPAST for posting this very important video, a sad but uplifting bit of history that I'd never known about.

[@sivaschuh4396]

Que Robespierre rôtisse en enfer.

[@mattbarbarich3295]

The vile French revolutionaries and then Napoleon Straight after! They were the original nazis, the first thing Hitler did in 1940 when visiting occupied Paris was visit Napoleon's grave and give the Nazi salute.

[@ElleCee62978]

This is the order that taught me for 12 years. In the one painting, it was nuns who taught me in high school who posed for the painting. The only reason Sr. Małgorzata wasn’t executed was because she was on duty at a hospital. Prior to Blessed Mother Stella, one nun that I knew was the superior. Also, one of the nuns was based out of the convent attached to my high school. She was sent back to Poland, and she was eventually executed. Her room was on the third floor. Thank you for covering Blessed Stella and her 10 Companions.

[@patrickjohnnybobbin7323]

Thank you

[@ElleCee62978]

@@caroline8785 I spent many hours praying to be a better Catholic, and if I was to be martyred to face it with the dignity of these sisters.

[@karlabritfeld7104]

@@caroline8785 do it's all about movies huh?

[@katjagolden893]

So sad. Thank you for sharing your story. My Grandparents are from the South Side of Warsaw but left in the middle of the night for America just b4 WW1. I still lost cousins in WW1 & 2. Saw a photo of a Wieczorek cousin when I visited Auschwitz in 1997.

[@patriciahobbs9184]

​@Caroline the movie is Gregory Peck in The Scarlet and the Black.

[@wildnette]

This is the first time I've heard this story. I've heard about other nuns murdered by Hitler, but never heard about the 11 nuns.

[@scottyaklin8226]

Cradle Catholic and WW2 history buff here ... I had never heard of this appalling crime before! I'd heard of many persecutions of non-Jews in eastern Europe during the war and, especially that of Maximilien Kolbe. Absolutely horrific! May these brave women rest in the grace of God and pray for us! Pax.

[@batcollins3714]

Check out the secret deal between Hitler and the Pope.

[@kittybitts567]

In Jesus' Holy Name, Amen!

[@peteyou2325]

Now that's a special kind of evil, executing 11 holy nuns.

[@siamihari8717]

@@kildigdotcom4599 Martyrdom is considered a Holy Act, and has been seen as a Holy Act across the planet thanks to when a certain Jewish Religious Teacher was Crucified. This is Historical fact Sir. And there are even those without a religious life as myself who see martyrdom as a Honorable, Respectable act worthy of memorization.

[@bobtaylor170]

@@kildigdotcom4599, all of us by nature are anything but holy. However, as Walter Martin ( d. 1989 ), the Evangelical apologist, put it, the Catholic church is "a large, backslidden church."

[@mikegraves3673]

@@kildigdotcom4599 Will you give your life to save another person?

[@kateguilfoyle5155]

@@bobtaylor170 and how old was his church?

[@bobtaylor170]

@@kateguilfoyle5155 , Christianity is all one Church, earthly disagreements notwithstanding.

[@renee1961]

It's so sad, and so kind, the Surviving Sister took care of The Grave. Valiant is and Excellent word for The Nuns 🥀🥀🥀🥀

[@marilynbaino2054]

Absolutely disgraceful. I have no words to convey my horror. RIP

[@pranayanagar675]

I'm an Indian and proud of our religion..after all this brutal atrocities..do you still think west is much developed and educated...

[@ELECTRICMOTOCROSSMACHINE]

True faith is very powerful. God has blessed them.

[@je-freenorman7787]

Its so powerful it makes everyone slaves to other people in the cult called Government

[@cgisme]

Which god? There are 4,000+ at the last count!

[@ELECTRICMOTOCROSSMACHINE]

@@cgisme They all have different names, but the same.

[@je-freenorman7787]

@@cgisme God is just Dog Spell-ed backwards Religion is dark magick

[@TNT-km2eg]

The same jerk offs , using this freak show called earth as their videogame

[@alisonkempster4229]

Poor, poor Sister Banas! She was not spared the agony of surviving; the trauma - to remember the horror alone in grief for the rest of her life; every day remembering the murder of her friends. I pray that God comforted her every moment she was left behind. May she be in perfect peace and joy with her fellow sisters, forever.

[@harryjames3905]

I don't know how I never heard about this. I watch almost everything World War II. That's the most amazing story I have ever heard!

[@anthonysherry2628]

Absolutely disgraceful. As a person who has a german mother, i find it incredibly upsetting. What were the people who committed these crimes thinking? As a catholic, we are asked to forgive those who trespass against us, and yet it is so hard to forgive those who committed those atrocities against innocent people

[@philip6419]

Back then almost everyone was religious. Its hard to imagine that even though the majority of those soldiers were catholic, that they would shoot nuns.

[@Charles-jg8dz]

There's a difference between forgiveness of normal human activity and those who were vomited out of the pits of Hell.

[@spudpud-T67]

But we must forgive them if, we whom commit just as heinous crimes in our minds, also wish to be forgiven.

[@winstonwhiteside9525]

@@spudpud-T67 Forgiving them does not mean that they should not pay for their crimes. This was a war crime--a crime against humanity--and the penalty for that is death. Were the perpetrators of this crime ever caught and tried for crimes against humanity?

[@noncompliant4316]

God is witness, and He will repay.

[@Patrickrooney1962]

The nazis knew no boundaries. There 11 nuns murdered because they stood up for the local people and parish priest. May they all rest in everlasting peace. Thank you for sharing their story...👏👏👏👏....P

[@klaus3794]

I am German and I am deeply embarrassed and sad that Germans did that to the poor nunes. I have no words but being so sad. May the bad people burn in hell forever!

[@francerichard801]

God bless you for caring!!!!!!!!!❤

[@kittybitts567]

oh dear. Please don't wish Hell on anyone. Those nuns forgave their murderers when they died. Jesus only taught us one prayer and in it we say, "forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." How can we not forgive when God Himself has suffered so much to give us forgiveness? If God who is perfect forgives us who are we not to forgive? The German people didn't do this. The NAZIs did. What they did was evil, but the antidote is to do good, avoid evil and stay close to those you love. Germans don't bear the sins of past Germans unless they too participate in evil. God bless and protect and keep you always in His care in Jesus' Holy Name, Amen.

[@LethalSaliva]

@@kittybitts567 Amen

[@francerichard801]

I was replying to someone not you!!!!!!

[@winstonwhiteside9525]

@@kittybitts567"The German people didn't do this. The Nazis did." In order to carry out the Holocaust, Hitler needed the support of the German nation (80 million people), not just the backing of official Nazi party members (8.5 million people). Could 8.5 million people have fought a World War for six years, murdered 6 million Jews, 3 million Poles, and 25 million Russians all by themselves? I don't think so. Of course, after the War, you couldn't find a German who claimed that he didn't hate the Nazis or help the Jews. By the way, if no one should be sent to Hell, then why did God create Hell? Furthermore, should we all pray that Adolph Hitler, the architect of all this evil, be forgiven and sent to Heaven? And of course, if there were a God, He could have given Hitler a miraculous heart attack before he came to power, and spared the world twelve years of horror and 70 million dead. Therefore, I would have to say that issues of morality and forgiveness are far more complicated than you make them out to be.

[@andresinsurriaga1082]

It's my understanding that the last words to them from the Mother Superior were 'charity Sisters, charity!' What a testimony of faith.

[@robertweidner2480]

How weak are you to need to shoot unarmed nuns? How strong are those unarmed nuns that you need to shoot them? I keep coming back to those two questions about this incident.

[@nuancolar7304]

Evil works through people, and in this case Evil had its way through the acts of the Nazis.

[@cocobean7519]

Never heard this historical story before. Thank you for bringing it to us. These nuns were truly selfless & heroic. God Bless them & grant them eternal rest.🙏🏻🙏🏻 God Bless you🙏🏻

[@redsocks771]

_"Never heard this historical story before"._ Because it is a fairy tale. There is no shortage of WW2 sensationalist, untrue videos on YT.

[@beadbird]

Dear Sisters, thank you for your brave sacrifice and please pray for us! The world is so evil today. God bless these Nuns!

[@geraldwilson681]

To those who criticize the Catholic Church during Hitler's Third Reich this is one example of many to show in truth that starting with then Pope Pius 12th , and following his example the many Bishops and priests who outright condemned and openly stood out in opposition to Hitler's evil regime. These humble nuns stood by their sacred vows that they took when they entered the cloistered life and died for the cause of righteousness. Eternal rest grant unto them Oh Lord and my Thy perpetual light shine upon them forever, Amen!!

[@wjm5972]

amen brother

[@dawnrobbins5877]

Yes. Amen.

[@maureenurquhart]

Amen RIP 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@katrinaolsen2444]

And Roman Catholic Priests helped HUNDREDS of Nazis escape to Argentina and Brazil. Let’s not forget the Ustaśa. The were Croatian Roman Catholics who slaughtered Orthodox Christian Serbs so brutally, even the Nazis were appalled. This was done at the behest of Archbishop Stepanec. Archbishop Stepanec was convicted of Crimes Against Humanity and served time in prison. However, Pope John Paul II started the beatification of Archbishop Stepanec. Really? Turning a CONVICTED WAR CRIMINAL, who crimes disgusted even the Nazis, into a Saint??? I’m glad I’m Episcopalian/Anglican. My church didn’t conspire to hide pedophile priests and nuns for decades. The Anglicans also didn’t enslave women who were r@ped or had children out of wedlock; to work for free, in laundries. Anglican nuns also didn’t hasten the deaths of unbaptized infants and children. A few years ago, workers who were digging up an old convent in Ireland; found dozens of dead infants and children in the septic tank. I have a friend from Ireland who is my age (53). I had been telling him that I had gone to a Christian Brothers college. Christian Brothers have a pretty benign reputation in the US. They’re seen as a chilled out, wine making group. My friend told me the Christian Brothers ran all of the schools in Dublin where he grew up. He said the brothers beat the students so viciously on a regular basis; that most kids were never spanked by their parents. He described the Brothers as closed fisted punching children in the face. And literally kicking them down the halls (while the children were on the ground, balled up; trying to protect themselves). He also said the Brothers would make the children whose parents were late with tuition; stand up . And the Brother would announce loudly that the children’s parents were deadbeats and hadn’t paid their tuition. This wasn’t 50 years ago. This was happening in the 1980s!!! I absolutely understand that no church is perfect. And there are terrible pastors, nuns, and brothers in all churches. However, the numbers of abusive clergy in the Roman Catholic Church are particularly egregious. Hence the Church having to pay Billions of dollars to the millions of people who were abused by Roman Catholic Clergy.. I could go on and on about how girls were sexually abused by nuns. My friend told me that her grandmother had the misfortune of being in a Roman Catholic orphanage. And that she had been sexually abused by the nuns. This was in 1982/83 that I was told this. Which was 15 plus years before Roman Catholic clergy sexually abusing children was widely known.

[@blameitonthepixie9231]

@@katrinaolsen2444 and the Pope was a nazi sympathizer.

[@speedyrik]

In all the videos you've posted. This one breaks my heart.

[@solvingpolitics3172]

Until the next video.

[@rebelusa6585]

Speedy you are correct. These nuns are old people. But sending 5 year old innocent child, crying to gas chamber (nazi concentration camp) are much worse.

[@kahlesjf]

Apparently, your heart is pretty tough to break.

[@gloriasalas2237]

@@rebelusa6585 todo crimen es terrible, toda vida es valiosa.

[@glakagz]

inter arma enim silent leges In times of war, the Law goes silent En tiempos de guerra, la Ley guarda silenci And there is a war coming GLOBAL, soon, the Ukraine war will expand, China will attach Taiwan to annex it. Israel will attack Iran as soon as Iran make their first Nuke test. There is a BIG one coming.

[@MegaSnakegirl]

I went to a Catholic nursing school in the 1970's in the USA that was run by American nuns of that order. My mom told me she thought they were a Polish order originally but she couldn't remember why she knew that. Most of us at the school were Catholic but I'm surprised that we never heard about this in school. So tragic.

[@christopheragro1953]

Well done, good and faithful servants. Enter into your Master's joy. R.I.P.

[@alexanderrudyak9957]

Вечная Вам память, сестры! Вы- гордость Церкви Христовой!!!

[@kittybitts567]

Аминь и аминь!!

[@gerardleahy6946]

Your videos are excellent and very well presented. These acts of terror must never be forgotten and the bravery of those nuns was incredible. Sadly, despotic regimes which are capable of such dastardly deeds still exist today.

[@georgebenson6330]

I guess if they stopped the "Nazi" narrative then they wouldn't be able to put up £100 Million memorials like the one coming next to Parliament. What about making it for all war atrocities with a bit more emphasis on the original instigators who wear suits !

[@roseogrady8785]

This happened during my life time...Sobering Thought.

[@daviddoran3673]

Yet the Poles forgave the Wehrmacht for this and all their other atrocities.....

[@solvingpolitics3172]

@@daviddoran3673Let’s see your documentation?

[@caropapa]

Cold blooded murder by the cold blooded Gestapo, 11 beautiful women of so much courage and faith right to the very end. It is the first time i have heard of these heroine`s my heart hurts for them😥💔🙏

[@petersorensen4396]

PAID MILITARY MEN! KILLERS DOING WHAT ONE PERSON TELLS THEM TO DO! THEY ARE ALL OVER THE WORLD AND PEOPLE LOVE THEM SICK SICK SICK. NO MILITARY NO WARS! SO SIMPLE! NOT ONLY THAT BILLIONS OF PEOPLE LOVE A GOD THAT NEVER STOPS A SINGLE WAR! IDIOTIC!

[@erepsekahs]

'All it takes for Evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.'

[@briandubois-gilbert8182]

This is reminiscent of the 16 Carmelite nuns of of Compiègne who in 1790 defied an order by a French revolutionary court to disband their order, vacate their monastery founded in 1641, and prohibited them to wear their habits. They were arrested in 1794, brought to Paris, tried by a merciless revolutionary tribunal and sentenced to die by guillotine. On 17July1794, they were taken from prison, put on an open wagon carriage as they were paraded towards the execution site-wearing their nun’s habits they bravely sang the Salva Regina and one by one ascended the guillotine platform to be executed. This happened near the end of the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror when thousands were guillotined, but the Parisian crowds accustomed to watching the spectacle of these parading of prisoners and their executions were horrified after they witnessed the martyrdom of these nuns for their religious faith. Ten days after the death of these nuns, the Reign of Terror ended. They are venerated and beatified as martyrs in 1906 by Pope St Pius X on their feast day (of their death) July 17.

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

The modern Jacobins still hate Christians.

[@maggiepacific]

Thank you for this information.. I was unaware of this cowardly event.

[@blackletter2591]

Poulenc wrote an opera about it, called "Dialogues of the Carmelites". The final aria is heartbreaking.

[@craigathonian]

Thank you so much for posting this. My aunt was a nun from the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth in Philadelphia. As a child i would visit her and i remember being horrified at the sight of the painting of these nuns slaughter, as it hung on the wall of the waiting parlor. Never in my future years of education was it ever taught about the catholics who where murdered by the nazi's. With that said, i can easily see how some of the younger generations grow up and have no knowledge of the pains and tortures that the world has gone through, and as such, don't know shit of what can come in the future. Again, thanks for posting this important piece of history !

[@josephclark4999]

I will never understand how priests were giving the last rites of the church on the gallows to nazi war criminals.

[@deniseshephard3347]

Such courage shown even when the unthinkable happens they stood up true to their faith this shows strength

[@ericbeaton7211]

Thank you for telling the story of these incredibly brave women and all those others whose humanity and conscience would not allow them to stay silent or do nothing.

[@akoyt748]

The evil of people is just incomprehensible.

[@LethalSaliva]

Another nun, Edith Stein, was also murdered. She perished in one of the gas chambers.

[@kittybitts567]

Yes, along with all the Jewish converts in her order and the priests who were Jewish converts because the Catholic church in Denmark condemned the NAZIs and the NAZIs took their revenge. We need to pay attention now to how western governments like the U.S. and Canada are taking revenge on their detractors. It's a slippery slope.

[@prarieborn6458]

Edith Stein also known as Sister Benedicta, a Carmelite and a famous jewish convert, was arrested at her convent in the Netherlands and taken to Auswich, along with her sister and died in the gas chamber. The arrests were in retaliation to the Archbishop of the Netherlands making a pubic crticism of Hitler.. People have condemned the Catholic Church for not publically opposing Hitler, not doing more to save the Jews. Yet, the other side of the story was that the Pope, by remaining silent in public, sought to protect Catholics and Christians in Nazi occupied countries from persecution. As history shows, the Nazis needed little or no provocation to do as they pleased. Saint Edith Stein, Pray for us.

[@dianelopes8199]

what a pack of monsters they were ,unharmed and ladies of the church , shame on them i hope each one of the gunners died roaring

[@oldman-zr2ru]

Bless those who curse you, pray for those that persecute you. Luke 6:28 KJV

[@daviddoran3673]

Quite the contrary....in neighbouring Ukraine today mass murderers are celebrated and worshipped...the SS Galician division?

[@giorgosfylaktou2610]

ME TOO

[@spudpud-T67]

Forgive those soldiers that shot the women, for they did not know what they have done.

[@LilithGrey...FromHell]

I wish I had learned more about these heroic nuns in school.

[@jensenwilliam5434]

Thank you for your videos of past history.

[@micheleriggi5758]

Thank you for telling a story that needs to be told. I'm 76 want to a Catholic high school and never knew this part of religious history. May all women of today use them as examples of trust and determination to do good. Sincerely, mjsr

[@Brembelia]

It is appalling how depraved some human beings can allow themselves to become.

[@Bronzebk]

Throughout human history, such Evil regimes always end up defeated. Too bad, some Never learn.

[@daviddoran3673]

Surely every Pole today knows about this atrocity..

[@akoyt748]

It's not only the regimes that were...and are...evil. Individuals, many at the common level, carried out these atrocities...and do to this day.

[@CF_E30]

So why were the Bolsheviks given a free pass?

[@missymoo9580]

Wow I had never heard of this story, it’s absolutely horrific what happened to the nuns

[@joseeallyn9950]

The Sisters sent their younger sisters away , whicjh probably accounts for the narrow age range of The Sisters who were martyred. They came to America . Their house is in Grand Prairie, Texas. The Sister are still there and run a parish and school. They have a little museum containing interesting items such as a visiting card that was left , before The War, in the Polish convent by a young visiting priest who would later become St.John Paul the Second. Pray for the sisters, who still keep their links with Poland and the Polish language, as they teach generations of local children and keep The Faith. The Polish Cistercian Monks also sent their young priests and ordinands away and they came to Dallas where the teach in their school and at The University of Dallas.

[@ElleCee62978]

They used to have a provincialate in Grand Prairie, just like Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Monroe, CT, and Des Plaines. They consolidated to Des Plains maybe 10 years ago.

[@joseeallyn9950]

@@ElleCee62978 Gosh! I will have to warn the sisters ! They might be surprised !

[@ElleCee62978]

@@joseeallyn9950 I almost joined that order. Some of the best women I’ve ever had the fortune to encounter.

[@joseeallyn9950]

@@ElleCee62978 I have known them (in Grand Prairie Texas !) for many years. I have seen, but not visited with hem in The Holy Land. My daughter in law is Office manager at their school in Grand Prairie so we know many of the sisters. Their monastery is in Grand Prairie too. I was honoured to be at the jubilees of several of the sisters. One of them had a sister in the house (in, I believe,) was Chicago , but I am not very familiar with American cities so I may have named the wrong city. She was a nurse.They were both celebrating jublilees and it was a great occasion. The sister in Grand Prairie was also a teacher at the Junior college where my son worked and so he knew her from there. She befriended a group of newly arrived Buddhists who were learning English. Sister could be seen sitting with them teaching them to pray the Rosary. They adored her as their mother figure , I often wonder if any of them converted, but I am sure they always prayed The Rosary from then on!

[@ElleCee62978]

@@joseeallyn9950 They taught me from K-12 in Philadelphia. It is the former Immaculate Conception province here. My mom worked for them for years (almost 30) at the grade school I went to. I have been at bunch of silver jubilees, one gold, and one platinum. You are correct that it is kind of Chicago. Their motherhouse is now in Des Plaines, IL, which is right outside Chicago. As I said earlier, this is the order that I wanted to join. They have convents in England, Italy, somewhere in Africa, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, the Philippines, and Australia. They used to be in Florida in the US and NY. I believe there are no nuns at my old convent school, but they are are at Holy Family University. They are an amazing group of women. I am forever grateful for their friendship and leadership.

[@netnerd2810]

I think that we should all follow their lead and stand up to evil wherever we find it, even today evil is spreading worldwide, sometimes disguised as good. We can all do our bit to fight evil together.

[@MorenoDonato]

As I watch the unraveling of Germany and of German industry, and I consider how weak the German nation is today, I can't help but reflect on the horrors and the destruction that they inflicted on most of Europe. A sense of guilt will never be enough.

[@petersorensen4396]

ANY PERSON TAKING A GUN IN THEIR HANDS TO KILL IS THE KILLER NOT THEIR LEADER. THAT IS A FACT NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT. HUMANS ARE BORN KILLERS. NO SOLDAT! NO WARS! PERIOD. AND THERE IS NO GOD TO STOP ANY WARS! A FACT!

[@claudiablanco6518]

Contemplate also on even though Germany is no longer an empire it fought to be in World War I and II, the destructive hatred that lived in Hitler’s regime still exist under different pretext. Not sure if you are familiar with US or British politics and the extreme nationalist movement on both sides attacking a race and religion for the sake of their political argument. The world condemns the Nazi regime but it’s hatred is not entirely gone. Many are still capable of this.

[@CH-kr2df]

@@claudiablanco6518 Australia literally locked up citizens in a fever of Covid extremism. Many Western nations had no qualms about shuttering businesses, denying medical care, firing people, and stripping away people’s humanity by calling those who didn’t go along with the program ‘killers’. So yes, extremism lives in everybody. You just need a govt and press and big business colluding and you’ll soon believe everything you are told is what’s best for you and your country.

[@claudiablanco6518]

@@CH-kr2df damn, don’t take much to turn a world upside down.

[@CH-kr2df]

@@claudiablanco6518 No ma’am. Sadly, it doesn’t.

[@bennyduvall8154]

I hope and pray that the murderers were brought to justice!

[@spudpud-T67]

They dug themselves a hole that knows no end.

[@rebelusa6585]

Hope murderer are brought to justice, yes, maybe in after life. Because our 3 dimensional world are full of injustice.

[@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists]

My immediate emotion is one of rage that screams for vengeance. Then I can hear the echoes of the Sisters' prayers. They would not want this. So very heart breaking!

[@nedrasellayah9314]

God Bless you and them. Thanks for posting this. I've been waiting to see something on this. There is so much misinformation and scarcity of accurate information about the role Catholic and other religious orders played in the World Wars. Catholics and religious people aren't even mentioned in the lists of people Hitler targeted for work camps, torture, experimentation and death. I'm not Catholic, but thank you for this. Courage, self sacrifice, heroism and martyrdom no matter by whom, should be acknowledged. 🙏🙏🙏

[@dawnrobbins5877]

We must also remember that they were imprisoned overnight. One can imagine the things they were subjected to before their murder. Apparently, no soldier refused to aid in the execution...cowards!

[@shaunbird8051]

We feel extremely sad and shaken hearing such atrocities of the dastarly Nazis. It is very inhuman and uncivilized in any form. Just how can these animals have done this to innocent Nuns who are harmless and have no role to confront these Nazis. The courage and bravery of these Nuns stand out and should be known to all. God bless their souls !

[@petersorensen4396]

HITLER KILLED NOBODY! ONLY THE PERSON WHO GOT A WEAPON IN HIS HAND. A MILITARY MAN WHO KILLS BECAUSE ONE LEADER TELLS HIM TO KILL! THEY ARE TRUE KILLERS AND WE HONOR THEM SICK SICK SICK. NO MILITARY NO WARS. YOU PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID. ANIMALS ARE BEAUTIFUL CREATURES NOT UNLIKE HUMANS HUMANS KILL FOR GREED ANIMALS ONLY FOR FOOD! BUT OF COURSE, BILLIONS OF HUMANS DO NOT KNOW THAT. I AM THE ONLY PERSON WHO KNOWS THAT! I GUESS.

[@kittybitts567]

Amen and Amen!

[@lindaoliver8563]

The word of God will never be silenced.. ❤ These nuns are souls of divine love.. thank you for sharing this story 😢❤

[@Calla-sl8gd]

I had never heard of this massacre. What bothers me the most about it is that a bishop of the Catholic Church worked hard to supply Nazis with the documents that would help them evade justice after the end of the war in South America and other parts of the world. Sisters, may you rest in eternal peace and sing with the angels.

[@donaldrispens1880]

May they rest in Peace !

[@mikebe41]

Doesn't everybody

[@pittbullking87]

Such courage! God rest their souls.

[@petersorensen4396]

WHY DID GOD NOT STOP IT?

[@jederial]

@@petersorensen4396 because god gave humans free will, that means no intervention because that interrupts said free will, we reap what we sow.

[@billruber2861]

They Demonstrated their faith . This is courage of a higher level . Soldiers, police and others have a chance to survive through learned fighting skills . These Nuns literally volunteered to sacrifice themselves for the good of others what faith 🙏 what courage

[@dittohead7044]

It’s hard to believe this never bothered the soldiers

[@kristinab1078]

It's very possible that those who were there that day were tormented for the rest of their lives by their guilt.

[@stephenkalatucka6213]

Hans: Why did you kill nuns? Franz: I want to go to Hell but I don't want to have to wait in line!

[@rebelusa6585]

Very funny comment, but true!

[@paulmcewen]

Yeh hopefully these Kraut scum are burning forever in the fires of hell.

[@petersorensen4396]

BECAUSE NO FUCKING GOD WILL STOP ME. BECAUSE HE LOVES KILLERS

[@hgji7381]

How many Protestant Pastors would you need to shoot?

[@ellenadams5923]

My Father was in WW11 and for the people that say the Holocaust didn't happen. I'm here to tell you IT DID!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL 🙏

[@americanpatriot2422]

May they rest in peace.

[@philmoore5579]

This is a horrible story yet also a beautiful story. The Nuns were truly followers of Christ and dwell with him now. Thank you for this post.

[@bernhardnizynski4403]

Absolutely deplorable! Yes ultimate sacrifice- what brave nuns!

[@spoofrider]

helped top Germans escape after the war with false papers. 😒

[@bernhardnizynski4403]

@@spoofrider - who did?

[@pa209]

I have never heard the story before, my heart is broken..Rest in peace dear Sisters..

[@Ani-ce6jd]

Thank you for telling a lot of these forgotten stories. It honors the memory of our beloved lost. Have you made a vid on the wereth 11?

[@patrickdam9619]

My perpetual light shine upon the holy nuns. May they Rest In Peace. Amen.

[@FatherJMarcelPortelli]

+ Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let Your perpetual light shine upon them. Amen. +

[@minui8758]

I think they have been Beatified. So we can be certain of their salvation. Better to say - Holy Virgin Martyrs pray for us!

[@deaconsmom2000]

You missed a part, "Padre".

[@adamstuhlman2206]

Thank you so much for all your work. This was a beautiful video

[@acquanellaogbemudia9930]

So sad may they all RIP

[@jimcronin2043]

I never knew this story until now. Thanks very much!!!

[@daviddoran3673]

I assume there's a shrine to these ladies at the massacre site???

[@ElleCee62978]

They are buried at the White Church in Navahrudak, Belarus. Sr. Małgorazata was led to their bodies and she tended the graves until the Nazis fled. They were reburied at the White Church after the war. She had since rejoined her martyred sisters at the church. Sr Małgorzata was named a Servant of God in 2021 by Pope Francis.

[@gemmatracey9331]

I surely hope so. I would love to visit them and pray there. ❤

[@minui8758]

Oh Holy and Glorious Martyrs of Nowogrodek - pray for us!

[@olivercooney6645]

I often wonder what would have come of this world if both great wars hadn't happened

[@juliehoddle92]

Man's inhumanity to man. Why was this regime so supported by its people, so hard to comprehend.

[@carolynwells4892]

They were afraid

[@susanhenshaw622]

Absolutely horrific! May they rest in eternal peace in gods hands!🙏

[@johannesbluemink4581]

I feel such anger against the executioners, beasts without a heart, cruel and without a conscience. I know they are dead and buried, but I will never believe these monsters have souls.

[@LeonardHuffman]

During my brief time as a college student, I first learned about the nuns here and there story. One of my teachers at the college I briefly attended was a nun and I learned of this situation. I personally wouldn't be brave to give my life for someone else......... but these sisters did a beautiful thing by sacrificing themselves for others.

[@tamaliaalisjahbana6849]

Thank you for reading out the names of those nuns one by one.

[@Richard-zd8pg]

I wonder how much Pope Benedict knew about actions like this during his time in the German army.

[@deanboardman2342]

Wow, so sad. It shows the two sides of humanity, one wants to kill and slaughter innocent people and the other sacrifice there life's to save other life's, I salute these nuns let them rest in peace 🙏

[@dlitton123dan9]

It's 2023, and I'm horrified. How can human beings treat others this way ? Hitler better hope there is no heaven or he'll!

[@Dulcimertunes]

There is both

[@petersorensen4396]

HITLER KILLED NOBODY. PAID HUMANS DID IT FOR HIM

[@KimFsharpHarp]

Great work on this channel! Thank you

[@Ramon51650]

I grew up next door to a convent of the Dominican order when WWII was still a fresh memory for the adults around me, yet I never heard of this martyrdom.

[@octavedefinale5700]

Merci pour se que vous faites ! Vive l'instruction et l'information ! Cordialement, de France

[@thomasmcloney1437]

Thanks. These horrible crimes must never be forgotten. Keep up the good work.

[@renee1961]

Good afternoon, and as ALWAYS Thank You for your Excellent videos. Always Well Done, and Very Informative.

[@CorettaJG]

What bloodthirsty evil. God bless these women.

[@mntryjoseph1961]

May they all rest in peace.

[@robertdurning6641]

I was taught by the order of the Sisters of the Holy Family in grade school. We learned all about this massacre at Visitation B.V.M. in Trooper PA. That order of nuns still teach there.

[@ElleCee62978]

One of my dear friends was stationed at Trooper. She left my Philly school to go there. She later left the convent but she was an amazing teacher.

[@robertdurning6641]

@@ElleCee62978 That's really cool. Small world isn't it? When did your friend teach there? I'm 61 years old so I went there in the late 1960s to to early 1970s.

[@ElleCee62978]

@@robertdurning6641 She left my school in 1989. I’m sure we have some nuns that overlap. I’m 44. Most of my HS teachers that were nuns died during 2020 at Mount Nazareth

[@jean-louislalonde6070]

Evil, plain evil facing highest degree of courage and sacrifice.

[@michaelshanahan4042]

This is the first time I have heard of this i am apserlotley horrified god rest there soles

[@shirleylake7738]

I did hear the statement that nuns and any others that opposed the Nazis were executed during WWII. This is the first time I have heard the full story of the nuns involved. May these brave women of our lord 🙏 RIP.

[@steve5825]

I can’t imagine the depravity and cruelty it would take to gun down a group of unarmed women. What brave soldiers they were. I hope there is a hell for people like this but I doubt it.

[@NoneNone-qw1ql]

Dear Steve, we bought a very old house and it needed 2 exorcisms. We had a devil living in our house and the previous owner admitted to the house being haunted the 30 years they lived there. They were catholic and the house is next door to a catholic church and yet they did nothing but nail the doors to the second floor shut. There is a hell and and we should not fear it. But fear and love God instead.

[@DaveBateman1972]

Thank you for educating

[@fionasaunders7646]

If those soldiers and officers who carried out those unbelievable murders, ever repented before their own deaths , then I wonder how those funerals were carried out . ? Did they have a priest who could bear to conduct the last rites on such evil men? A greater judgment is waiting for them.