Victory in death

Duration: 27

Year Published: 1971

Creator: John Wydra Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A portrait of Father Maximillian Kolby, a Polish Franciscan beatified in 1971. He founded the Crusade of Mary Immaculate, a mass media organization, and Niepokalanej, which became the largest religious community in the world. He died at Auschwitz in a voluntary exchange for another's life. Featured are the prisoner's painting of extermination camp scenes.