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Antoni Rewera

Antoni Rewera

1869–1942

Nationality
Poland
Occupation
presbyter

Antoni Rewera (6 January 1869 – 1 October 1942) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and martyr.

Incarceration history

  1. Zigeunerlager Auschwitz
    Dates unknown
  2. Zigeunerlager Auschwitz
    Dates unknown

Biography

Antoni Rewera (6 January 1869 – 1 October 1942) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and martyr. One of the 108 Martyrs of World War II, Rewera served as a professor of the diocesan seminary in Sandomierz for 16 years and as dean of its cathedral chapter from 1931 until his death. He helped found a religious order, the Congregation of Sisters of St. Francis the Sephardic, in 1939.

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