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By John Grondelski, National Catholic Register, September 4, 2025
John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. He is especially interested in moral theology and the thought of John Paul II. [Note: All views expressed in his National Catholic Register contributions are exclusively the author’s.]
SAINTS & ART: In 1943, the Sisters of Nowogródek offered their lives in place of 120 men.
Eleven nuns were shot by the Germans in a pine forest early in the morning of Aug. 1, 1943.
Many religious were killed by the Nazis. What was so special about these nuns? Their story.
Navahradak today is a town in Belarus about 70 miles east of the Polish border. Between the world wars, it was Nowogródek, a town in Poland. The 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact between Germany and its Soviet ally brought the Red Army to Nowogródek and the area annexed to the USSR. When Hitler turned on his erstwhile ally, the Nazis came. They remained until 1944, when the Soviets returned. When Belarus gained independence in 1991, its borders followed what they had been in the Soviet Union. …
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