The Martyrs of Nowogrodek were a group of eleven Polish nuns from the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth who were shot on August 1, 1943 by Gestapo men in the forest near Nowogródek in Poland (now Belarus). They were beatified on March 5, 2000 in Rome by John Paul II. The nuns moved to Nowogródek in 1929 at the request of Msgr. Zygmunt Lozinski to take care of the...