The issue also is that St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross, a discalced Carmelite nun, was put to death because of who her ancestors were.
Isn't St Teresa Benedicta considered to be a martyr?
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But if she was "put to death because of who her ancestors were" then that would negate her martyr status.
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You can't have it both ways. She died for the faith or she died "because of who her ancestors were".
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Nobody denies that she died in a cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρ, what is questioned here is that she "died in the gas chambers". It's the gas chambers which are disputed.
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Short excerpt from a long article:
http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/auschwitz.shtml.Survivor Testimony.Former inmates have confirmed that they saw no evidence of extermination at Auschwitz..An Austrian woman, Maria Vanherwaarden, testified about her camp experiences in a Toronto District Court in March 1988. [16] She was interned in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942 for having sɛҳuąƖ relations with a Polish forced laborer. On the train journey to the camp, a Gypsy woman told her and the others that they would all be gassed at Auschwitz. Upon arrival, Maria and the other women were ordered to undress and go into a large concrete room without windows to take a shower. The terrified women were sure that they were about to die. But then, instead of gas, water came out of the shower heads..Auschwitz was no vacation resort, Maria confirmed. She witnessed the deaths of many fellow inmates by disease, particularly typhus. She saw some take their own lives. But she saw no evidence at all of mass killings, gassings, or of any extermination program..A Jєωιѕн woman named Marika Frank arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau from Hungary in July 1944, when 25,000 Jews were supposedly gassed and cremated daily. She likewise testified after the war that she heard and saw nothing of gas chambers during the time she was interned there. She heard the gassing stories only later. [17].Inmates ReleasedMore than 200,000 prisoners were transferred from Auschwitz to other camps, and about 8,000 were in the camp when it was liberated by Soviet forces. In addition, about 1,500 prisoners who had served their sentences were released, and returned to their home countries. [18] If Auschwitz had actually been a top secret extermination center, it is difficult to believe that the German authorities would have released inmates who "knew" what was happening there.
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