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This is why he joined the Pallottine seminary at Vallendar, where one of his spiritual directors was future Schoenstatt founder Fr Joseph Kentenich. Fr Henkes, a teacher, was moved from one place to the next. At all of these, he attracted the attention of the Gestapo for declaring the incompatibility between Christianity and Nazism.

Fr Henkes, then 44, became well-known in the camp for his selfless acts of mercy, especially in caring for the victims of typhoid fever. In the end, typhoid killed him before the Nazis could, on February 22, Like him, Fr Unzeitig cared tenderly for the typhoid-stricken. Fr Unzeitig had been interred in Dachau without trial, or even a charge, for almost four years. It was enough that he had preached in defence of the persecuted Jews. Among the priests who found themselves there was Fr Gerhard Hirschfelder , who joined the Schoenstatt Movement in the camp.

He had long spoken out against the Nazis, but what got him to Dachau was his objection to the destruction of Christian images. Main: Entrance to Dachau concentration camp. Shortly before that, on June 22, , his fellow Breslau priest Fr August Froehlich died there at Fr Alojs Andritzki , 27, came to Dachau for the crime of having presented a Christmas play in Dresden in At Christmas he fell ill with typhoid and was moved to the infirmary.

More than a thousand priests from different countries died at Dachau, from disease or exhaustion or murder. From left The first priest to die in a concentration camp Fr Otto Neururer, Sister Maria Restituta Kafka, the only nun to receive the death sentence, and Fr Max Josef Metzger Hung upside down The first priest to die in a concentration camp was Fr Otto Neururer , an Austrian whose crime was to counsel a young parishioner not to marry a man of dubious morals.

It turned out that the man was a friend of the local Nazi chief, and the priest was transported to Dachau and then to Buchenwald. There he was frequently tortured. Fr Neururer sealed his fate when he illicitly baptised a fellow inmate.

The sadistic camp commander hanged him upside down and naked. Fr Neururer died after 34 hours of agony on May 30, He was The priest was beatified in A formidable nurse in Vienna, she defied the Nazis by refusing to remove the crucifixes from hospital rooms. Accused of not removing the crucifixes and allegedly having dictated a poem mocking Hitler, the year-old nun was sentenced to death.

Unsurprisingly, he was opposed to the Nazis and was arrested several times by the Gestapo. His end came when his memorandum to a Swedish bishop outlining how a defeated Germany could become part of a peace plan was intercepted.

A showtrial, presided over by the frenzied hanging judge Roland Freisler, sentenced him to death. He was executed on April 17, As of he was frequently raided and interrogated by the Gestapo.

His end came when he was arrested as part of the large-scale round-up following the failed assassination attempt on Hitler in , a pretext for the Nazis to purge their opponents. Though innocent, Gross was badly tortured — journalists could expect to have their hands crushed, as had also happened to Fritz Gerlich.

He was eventually sentenced to death by the notorious Freisler, and executed on January 23, Aged 46, he left seven children behind. Gross was beatified in One man who was executed for actually being involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler, and leading that failed endeavour, was Claus von Stauffenberg , a young, aristocratic career officer in the Wehrmacht who earlier had been a keen Nazi. After the plot to kill Hitler failed, Stauffenberg was executed by firing squad on July 21, He was a Catholic journalist, and as a parish priest in Munich he helped to smuggle Jews to Switzerland.

Fr Delp was falsely accused of being party to the plot to kill Hitler. In jail, the Gestapo offered him freedom if he left the Jesuits.

He refused. The priest was sentenced to death by Freisler, and executed in February 2, The following day Freisler died in an air raid. Repeatedly he refused to take the oath of allegiance to Hitler. His offer to serve as a paramedic was rejected, and the year-old father of three daughters was tried and executed on August 9, Some people were executed for less.

As usual, Freisler sent his family a bill for the cost of the execution. But Gestapo agents tempted him out of exile by posing as two Jews who needed help to flee France. At the border he was abducted and taken to Germany. In interrogations, Fr Gapp was so steadfast in his Catholic ethics that it was decided he was too dangerous to be sent to Dachau. Instead the year-old was tried and sentenced to death. The Commemoration Day gives us the chance to remember the fallen heroes, the precious lives scarified in the line of duty.

Their families, forever proud, will have a special place in the collective conscience of the nation. Their memory will be treasured by this and the future generations of this country. No exaggeration this: we owe our peace and stability to these martyrs. There is a maxim that all great values have a price.

We are forever indebted to our martyrs who defended those principles. The UAE flag is a symbol of strength, pride and invincibility. Indeed, we have not forgotten our martyrs. Their values are a cornerstone of the very foundation this nation is built upon. Their sacrifice will forever be ingrained in our history and collective memory. You can manage them any time by clicking on the notification icon. This section is about Living in UAE and essential information you cannot live without.

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