4 July 1942 In the penal unit (Strafkompanie - SK) of the German Nazi
#Auschwitz concentration camp blessed father Józef Kowalski SDB was murdered.
Father Kowalski was ordained a priest on May 29, 1938, in Kraków as member of the Salesian Religious Society and took up a post of secretary to the Salesian provincial. During the German occupation of Poland the Salesians continued their educational work. The Gestapo arrested Kowalski on May 23, 1941, along with eleven other Salesians who worked in Kraków. They were taken to Montelupich Prison and tortured.
He was incarcerated in Auschwitz on 26 June 1941 and registered with the no. 17350.
Father Kowalski was sent to SK for refusing to trample his
#rosary. He was drown in a barrel of excrements.