A CARD FROM CALENDAR - FR. ADAM SZTARK
Father Sztark was known to almost anyone in the small town of Słonim (modern-day Belarus). They respected his exceptional ministry towards his parishioners, as well as his great devotion to the Jewish townspeople. Sztark, a Jesuit, visited hospitals and orphanages, helped the sick and the lonely, and took in Jewish children wandering the streets aimlessly after the ghetto was liquidated in June of 1942. He provided them with new baptism certificates and looked for safe hiding spots for them. On 18 December 1943 Gestapo arrested him and two Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, Ewa Noiszewska and Marta Wołowska. They were shot dead over a mass grave in the Pietrolewickie Hills.
