In the summer of 1941, inside the most feared death camp in history, a Catholic priest did something that had never been done before - and has never been forgotten since.

When Nazi SS officers selected ten innocent men to die by starvation as punishment for another prisoner's escape, Father Maximilian Kolbe stepped out of the line and spoke three sentences that changed everything.
"I am a Catholic priest. I wish to take the place of this prisoner. He has a wife and children."
They accepted.
The Man Who Chose to Die is the true, fully documented story of a man who built a media empire from nothing, crossed oceans on faith, sheltered the persecuted at the risk of his own life - and in one defining moment, gave that life away for a stranger he had never met.
This is not a story about religion. It is a story about what a human being is capable of when love becomes stronger than the will to survive.