The Tablet April 29, 2021
The watchtower and barbed wire fence are seen at the memorial site of the former Nazi concentration camp, Dachau. (Photo: CNS/KNA)
WINDSOR TERRACE April 29 marks the day Polish Catholics solemnly remember when nearly 2,000 of the country’s 10,000 diocesan priests perished during the Nazi German occupation in World War II. The day coincides with the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp in Dachau, Germany.
“The number of Polish priests murdered there exceeded all other victims from the clergy of other European countries,” said Jan Żaryn, director of the Institute for the Heritage of National Thought in Poland.