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The Andrew Klavan Show

The Catholic Priest Who Gave His Life At Auschwitz | Cecilia Stevenson

The Andrew Klavan Show

The Andrew Klavan Show

News Commentary, News

4.822.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Cecilia Stevenson, producer of Triumph Of The Heart, joins me for a riveting discussion about the historical figure who inspired the movie: Maximilian Kolbe–a Polish priest who sacrificed himself at Auschwitz to save another man's life. During our conversation, we discussed the process of producing, funding, and green-lighting the film. - - - Today’s Sponsor: Beam - Try Beam's best-selling Dream Powder and get up to 40% off for a limited time when you go to https://shopbeam.com/KLAVAN and use code KLAVAN at checkout. - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:22.8

entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 have heard of, heumph of the Hearts, the story of St. Maximilian Colby, who you may have heard of or may not have heard of,

0:56.8

who died at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland, just an absolutely harrowing story.

1:04.5

I watched the film just a few days ago, and it's very powerful and surprising stuff,

1:11.2

a very rich, visual, well-acted and well-directed story,

1:15.6

directed by Anthony Dambrosio.

1:17.6

You know, many years ago, I visited Auschwitz,

1:20.7

and it's a place, as I reported to my wife afterwards,

1:24.9

not even the birds sing at Aus at outfits. It's a place where

1:28.4

there, where no horror you can imagine was not committed by man against man. And one of the

1:36.4

things that's been very frustrating to me in the, in recent days, in this information crisis that

1:43.0

we're all in, where there's so much information and no way to tell what's true

1:46.1

and what's not true, is the rewriting of history

1:48.6

where people start believing the Holocaust was a hoax

1:51.6

or that we were on the wrong side of the war somehow

1:55.6

and that Hitler was just stumbled into killing people.

1:59.9

And a lot of this comes from the hatred of Jews,

2:02.3

but the fact is the Nazis were against anything that smacked of God,

2:07.4

anything that smacked of decency and of holiness and of just of humanity.

2:12.1

The absolute breath of their evil is almost hard to conceive of. if you haven't read, as I have, like a million

2:21.5

books about it. And there are even controversies that have taken place around Auschwitz where

2:27.1

Catholics and Jews have argued about who should have monuments there or who should have, you know,

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