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Religious sisters view remains discovered at a site in Gdańsk, northern Poland. / Poszukiwania IPN. Warsaw, Poland, Jun 4, 2021 / 03:10 am (CNA). Sr. Maria Gunhilda was recovering from tuberculosis at a hospital in Orneta, northern Poland, when ...
Possible Bones of Nuns Killed by Red Army Unearthed in Poland Monday, March 8, 2021 ORNETA, POLAND—The possible remains of three Roman Catholic nuns killed by Soviet soldiers at the end of World War II have been unearthed in a municipal cemetery in northern Poland, according to a Live Science report. Historical records dated to 1945 indicate that seven Polish nuns from the order of St. Catherine of Alexandria, who served as hospital nurses, were among those killed, imprisoned, or deported by the Soviets after Russia’s Red Army invaded Poland in 1944. Last summer, the remains of Si...
Eerie grave of three WW2 nuns brutally murdered by invading Soviets discovered in Poland Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter 8 Mar 2021, 15:56 Updated: 8 Mar 2021, 15:57 THE skeletons of three nuns who were brutally murdered by Russian soldiers at the end of the Second World War have been discovered. Archaeologists in Poland uncovered the remains in the town of Orneta, ending a months long hunt for the bones of seven Catholic nuns killed by the Soviets. 5 The skeletons of three nuns who were brutally murdered by Russian soldiers at the end of the Second World War have...
Share A project by the Institute of National Remembrance in Poland was launched to discover their remains and Polish archaeologists announced they found the remains of Sister Charytyna (Jadwiga Fahl) in Gdansk last summer. In October they found Sister Generosa (Maria Bolz), Sister Krzysztofora (Marta Klomfass) and Sister Liberia (Maria Domnik) in Orneta. And now the bodies of the last missing trio, Sister Rolanda (Maria Abraham), Sister Gunhilda (Dorota Steffen) and Sister Bona (Anna Pestka) have been found too. Experts also unearthed crucifixes, ‘religious clothing’ and rosaries from aro...