Titus Brandsma, a Dutch R.C. Priest who was beatified in Rome, Nov. 3, 1985

 from THE PRIEST BARRACKS [concerns Dachau NAZI Concentration Camps] by Guillaume Zeller

 (Ignatius Press, 2017) -

chapter 19 "Witnesses & Blesseds"

Although they benefited from the resources of their faith to overcome their sufferings

in (Dachau Concentration) Camp, not all the clergymen in Dachau were mystics,

much less visionaries.  Like all their companions, they dreaded hunger, cold, blows,

and the transports of the infirm, and they experienced dejection, loneliness, and fear.

They trembled and wept. . .Some emerged from the concentration camp broken by

the experience; others were haunted to the end of their lives by the trauma of their

deportation, such as Father Robert Beauvais, who by day was an energetic, enterprising

priest, enthusiastic about sailing, motoring, and all modern technology; yet by night

he used to walk the streets of Paris reciting his Rosary in order to escape his nightmares.

From this cohort of Dachau priests, the Church has singled out some exceptional figures

who have been enrolled in the martyrology as martyrs and blesseds. . .

Pope John Paul II -- born Karol Wojtyla -- honored Titus Brandsma, a Dutchman, was beatified

on Nov. 3, 1985 (who was thus the first from the camp to become a blessed) . . . "He showed 

the caliber of his interior life in distress and physical degradation; in his suffering he was

united with Christ.  His solidarity with the other prisoners, his practice of the faith

provided light and hope in the division caused by the cruelty and inhumanity of the camp."