He was initially starved and then was injected with poison. His body was then burned.
Hermann Julius Kolbe died in 1939.
One prominent priest who was arrested by the Nazis in 1941 was Maximilian Kolbe. He was a Polish Catholic friar who was taken by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Kolbe sacrificed his life to save another prisoner and was eventually canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church.
possibly, i know of at least one who survived Auschwitz.
Arthur Dodd - Auschwitz survivor - died in 2011.
She died late in 1944 at Auschwitz after her two daughters were moved from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen.
Maximilian Kolbe died on August 14, 1941.
Maximilian Kolbe died on August 14, 1941, by lethal injection after three weeks of starvation and dehydration at the Auschwitz, Poland, death camp.
Maximilian Kolbe died on August 14, 1941, by lethal carbolic acid injection after three weeks of starvation and dehydration at the Auschwitz, Poland death camp. His body burned in the ovens and ashes scattered.
He was a Polish Catholic priest who founded the Immaculata Movement. He was sent to Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp, in 1941. When two prisoners escaped, ten men were selected to die. Father Kolbe had himself substituted for a young father and husband. He survived two weeks without food and water. Four others were also still living. They were then injected with poison and died. They died on the night of the feasting day for the Assumption of the Blessed Mary.
Ino Kolbe died in 2010.
Georg Kolbe died in 1947.
Parke Kolbe died in 1942.
Walter Maximillian Bastian died in 1975.
Maximilian Kolbe died on August 14, 1941, by lethal carbolic acid injection after three weeks of starvation and dehydration at the Auschwitz, Poland death camp.
Hermann Julius Kolbe died in 1939.
Fritz Kolbe died on 1971-02-16.
Heinrich Christoph Kolbe died in 1836.