title: The death camp proved him real;: The life of Father Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan
author: Maria Winowska
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zlib_text: ## [The Death Camp Proved Him Real – The Life of St. Maximilian
  Kolbe](http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/2010/05/the-death-camp-proved-him-
  real-the-life-of-st-maximillian-kolbe/ "The Death Camp Proved Him Real – The
  Life of St. Maximilian Kolbe")
  
  
  Published on May 29, 2010 by [Maria
  Winowska](http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/author/maria-winowska/ "Posts by
  Maria Winowska") in [Marian Private
  Revelation](http://www.motherofallpeoples.com/category/marian-private-
  revelation/)
  
  
  _The following is the first in a series of excerpts from_ The Death Camp
  Proved Him Real –The Life of Father Maximilian Kolbe, _written in 1952_ _by
  Maria Winowska._ – _Asst. Ed._
  
  
  Prologue: Can Christian Love Survive a Death Camp?
  
  
  I start with a confession. Where did I get the idea to write this book? Why
  have I written it?
  
  
  Father Maximilian Kolbe has haunted me ever since a day toward the end of the
  war when I was lodged at the Abbey of Montserrat in Spain. Like so many others
  in flight from the secret 