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Her story will move you!

Sometimes all of the learned works of theology and philosophy pale in comparison to the true-life stories of genuine Christian heroes and heroines.

In this series, a woman named Anne Marie Schmidt, today seemingly an ordinary housewife in Maine, recalls the horrifying events of her youth. Schmidt had the unlikely destiny of being a prisoner in both the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz and in the Russian salt mines of Siberia. She explains in this series how her Catholic Faith sustained her through unimaginable trials and led her to see, in the most unlikey of places, the hand of God working. In the midst of the most horrific trials, Schmidt saw more clearly than ever before that she was and is an adopted daughter of the Lord of Creation. This gave her the strength to see the humanity even of the brutal Nazi soldiers who killed her lifelong friends in her small Czech village. The Nazis came into her village, rounded up 25 villagers, and demanded that they renounce their Faith and accept Adolf Hitler as their only true saviour. When the villagers refused, they were taken out and shot. The next day, the soldiers came again, but this time they rounded up 50 villagers, again they insisted that they renounce their Faith, and, when the villagers refused, shot them all. The next day, the soldiers rounded up 75 villagers, and this time Anne Marie Schmidt was in the group. When the villagers refused to renounce the Faith, the Nazis shot again, but  their bullets grazed Anne Marie. The soldiers decided to let her go, and she was spared. But there were far greater trials she had to face.

Anne Marie was eventually to be emprisoned at Aushwitz, and, when captured by the Red Army, shipped off to work in the salt mines of Siberia. When she was released in 1946, she was packed into a cattle car on a railroad and shipped overland to Germany. All of the prisoners in the cattle car caught cholera, and once again only Anne Maria and another woman survived. The military police were going to burn out the car, but the intervention of an American soldier saved her life.

After the war, in Nuremburg, Schmidt met another American soldier, they were married and in 1951 moved to the United States. In 1972, the couple moved to a small town in Maine, where they raised a family. After some years, Schmidt discovered the Charismatic Renewal movement, which reaffirmed her traditional Catholic Faith and strengthened her to tell the world her remarkable story. Don't miss this inspiring tape series and Anne Marie's story of Faith!

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