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by Em Dolan

Works Cited

http://www.olotl.org/heroes/nowogrodek/nowogrodek.html

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/nazi-party

http://sunday.niedziela.pl/artykul.php?dz=wiara&id_art=00138

https://catholicismpure.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/the-martyrs-of-nowogrodek-on-01-august-1943-11-catholic-nuns-were-murdered-by-the-gestapo/

The Martyred Sisters of Nowogrodek Background

Crisis Faced

The first nuns of the Holy Family of Nazareth arrived in Nowogrodek on 4 September 1929.

Nowogrodek was a small town in modern Belarus.

It was a nationally diverse town.

They ran a school and formed a community of Christ.

The nuns' organizations were torn apart, and they could not officially run schools.

They were forbidden to wear habits and were expelled from the houses they lived in.

Priests were killed and murdered right in the towns.

Cause of their martyrdom

Time Period and Background

The sisters were begging and praying for the release of the Polish families that were captured to be killed.

After spending the night in the basement of a commissirat, they were driven to the woods, shot, and buried in a mass grave.

1st of September, 1939 - war begins

July 31, 1942 - mass execution

Some people were released. The transport set out westwards on 24 July 1943. All those who were transported survived the war.

Germans and Soviets occupied Poland.

Catholics and Polish people were hated.

The Sisters of Nowogrodek

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