Maria Antonina Kratochwil, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMaria Antonina Kratochwil
Catholic martyr of World War II
Date of Birth: 21-Aug-1881
Place of Birth: Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic
Date of Death: 02-Oct-1942
Profession: nun
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Maria Antonina Kratochwil
- Maria Antonina Kratochwil (21 August 1881 – 7 October 1942) was beatified by Pope John Paul II as one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II.
- She tried to help the Jews survive during the Holocaust.
- A member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame residing in the Kresy region of the Polish Second Republic before the war began; she was arrested along with her nuns by Nazi Germans a year after Operation Barbarossa of the 1941, and singled out for anti-Nazi activities.
- She was severely beaten while in prison, contracted typhus, and died upon her hasty release.
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