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Roman Catholic
St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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  • BEDNARSKI Stanislav Joseph; source: „Jesuits on Polish and Lithuanian territory knowledge encyclopedia, 1564—1995” – Fr Louis Grzebień SI (editor), WAM Printing House, Cracow 1996, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOBEDNARSKI Stanislav Joseph
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  • BEDNARSKI Stanislav Joseph; source: „Suffering and love – Jesuit Servants of God – II World War martyrs”, WAM, Cracow, 2009, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOBEDNARSKI Stanislav Joseph
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religious status

Servant of God

surname

BEDNARSKI

forename(s)

Stanislav Joseph (pl. Stanisław Józef)

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    Commemorative plaque, Jesuits church, Cracow, Kopernika str.
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    Commemorative plaque, Finucaine Center, Rockhurst Jesuit University, Kansas City
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  • BEDNARSKI Stanislav Joseph - Commemorative plaque, Holy Ghost church, Nowy Sącz, source: www.miejscapamiecinarodowej.pl, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOBEDNARSKI Stanislav Joseph
    Commemorative plaque, Holy Ghost church, Nowy Sącz
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function

religious cleric

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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congregation

Society of Jesus SImore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]

(i.e. Jesuits)

diocese / province

Lesser Poland Province SI (from 1926)
Polish Province SI (1918‐1926)
Galicia Province SI (till 1918)

academic distinctions

Doctor of Philosophy

date and place
of death

16.07.1942

KL Dachauconcentration camp
today: Dachau, Upper Bavaria reg., Bavaria state, Germany

more on
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alt. dates and places
of death

16.07.1942

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of German occupation, arrested by the Germans for the first time on 14.10.1939.

Jailed in Montelupich prison in Kraków.

Released after 10 days.

After mass arrests of Kraków Jesuits on 10.11.1939 was an acting deputy rector of Jesuits' college in Kraków.

Arrested again on 08.07.1940 by the Germans and again jailed in Montelupich prison in Kraków.

Transported next to KL Sachsenhausen concentration camp and from there on 14.12.1940 to KL Dachau concentration camp where he was tortured and perished.

prisoner camp's numbers

22675Click to display source page (KL DachauClick to display the description), 28992 (KL SachsenhausenClick to display the description)

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

KL DachauClick to display the description, KL SachsenhausenClick to display the description, Cracow (Montelupich)Click to display the description, Sonderaktion KrakauClick to display the description, «Intelligenzaktion»Click to display the description, Collective responsibility („Hostages”)Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

09.04.1896

Nowy Sącztoday: Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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religious vows

02.02.1931 (permanent)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

22.01.1922 (Holiest Heart of Jesus Christ church in Cracow)

positions held

1922 – 1940

friar — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ monastery (by the Holiest Heart of Jesus church), Jesuits SI

1939 – 1940

vice–rector — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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⋄ Department of Theology, College (Lat. Collegium Maximum SS. Cordis Iesu, 26 Kopernik Str.), Jesuits SI

from 1937

director — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ Apostolate of Prayer Printing House, Jesuits SI

1935 – 1937

treasury officer / procurator — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ Apostolate of Prayer Printing House, Jesuits SI

1922 – 1939

editor — Jesuit magazines: „Faith and Life” (from 1924), „Sodalis Marianus” (1933‐1944, 1924‐1929), internal „Our News” (1931‐1936), „Calendar of the Heart of Jesus” (1931‐1938, 1928), also: associate of „General Review” (from 1922); member of the editorial committee (from 1937) and associate of the „Polish Biographical Dictionary”, associate of the Roman periodical „Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu” (from 1931)

till 1932

PhD student — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ Department of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University UJ — PhD thesis „The fall and revival of Jesuit schools in Poland. A study of the history of Polish culture and education”, public defense on 12.12.1932, published Kraków 1933, honored by the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences with the award of the late Probus Barczewski's foundation as „the best work in the field of Polish history, written in Polish by a Catholic Pole

from c. 1926

professor — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ Department of Theology, College (Lat. Collegium Maximum SS. Cordis Iesu, 26 Kopernik Str.), Jesuits SI — lecturer in the history of Christian art (from 1926) and methodology of scientific work (from 1934)

from 1928

head/manager — Writers' Library, Southern Poland province, Jesuits SI

from 1924

curator — Archives, Southern Poland province, Jesuits SI

1929 – 1930

Third Probation — Stara Wieśtoday: Brzozów gm., Brzozów pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary monastery, Jesuits SI

1929

Third Probation — Paray‐le‐Monialtoday: Charolles arr., Saône‐et‐Loire dep., Bourgogne‐Franche‐Comté reg., France
more on
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[access: 2022.11.09]
⋄ monastery, Jesuits SI

1922 – 1926

student — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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⋄ modern history, cultural history and art history, Department of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University UJ — absolutorium 14.09.1926

till 1922

student — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ theology, College (Lat. Collegium Maximum SS. Cordis Iesu, 26 Kopernik Str.), Jesuits SI

from 1918

student — Stara Wieśtoday: Brzozów gm., Brzozów pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ theology, College, Jesuits SI

1916 – 1918

student — Nowy Sącztoday: Nowy Sącz pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ philosophy, Holy Spirit College, Jesuits SI — three–year philosophy course

1914 – 1916

friar — Bunkovychin .Khyriv
today: Khyriv urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine

more on
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[access: 2022.11.09]
⋄ monastery, St Joseph College (Scientific and Educational Institute), Jesuits SI — 7th and 8th grade of gymnasium (due to the outbreak of World War I, evacuated in 09‐10.1914 to Stary Sącz, and in 10.1914–08.1915 to Velehrad), matura exam on 23.06.1916

1912 – 1914

novitiate — Stara Wieśtoday: Brzozów gm., Brzozów pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary monastery, Jesuits SI — Second Probation

1910 – 1912

First Probation — Stara Wieśtoday: Brzozów gm., Brzozów pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary monastery, Jesuits SI — also: 5th and 6th grade at gymnasium

16.07.1910

accession — Stara Wieśtoday: Brzozów gm., Brzozów pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary monastery, Jesuits SI

membership — many scientific societies and social organizations: i.a. Librarians' Union, Polish Historical Society, Historical Commission and the Commission for the History of Education and Education of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fr Peter Skarga's Society

others related
in death

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sites and events
descriptions

KL Dachau: KL Dachau in German Bavaria, set up in 1933, became the main German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL for Catholic priests and religious during World War II: On c. 09.11.1940, Reichsführer‐SS Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, Gestapo and German police, as a result of the Vatican's intervention, decided to transfer all clergymen detained in various concentration camps to KL Dachau camp. The first major transports took place on 08.12.1940. In KL Dachau Germans held approx. 3,000 priests, including 1,800 Poles. The priests were forced to slave labor in the Germ. „Die Plantage” — the largest herb garden in Europe, managed by the genocidal SS, consisting of many greenhouses, laboratory buildings and arable land, where experiments with new natural medicines were conducted — for many hours, without breaks, without protective clothing, no food. They slaved in construction, e.g. of camp's crematorium. In the barracks ruled hunger, freezing cold in the winter and suffocating heat during the summer, especially acute in 1941‐1942. Prisoners suffered from bouts of illnesses, including tuberculosis. Many were victims of murderous „medical experiments” — in 11.1942 c. 20 were given phlegmon injections; in 07.1942 to 05.1944 c. 120 were used by for malaria experiments. More than 750 Polish clerics where murdered by the Germans, some brought to Schloss Hartheim euthanasia centre and murdered in gas chambers. At its peak KL Dachau concentration camps’ system had nearly 100 slave labour sub‐camps located throughout southern Germany and Austria. There were c. 32,000 documented deaths at the camp, and thousands perished without a trace. C. 10,000 of the 30,000 inmates were found sick at the time of liberation, on 29.04.1945, by the USA troops… (more on: www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.deClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10]
, en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.05.30]
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KL Sachsenhausen: In Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL Sachsenhausen, set up in the former Olympic village in 07.1936, hundreds of Polish priests were held in 1940, before being transported to KL Dachau. Some of them perished in KL Sachsenhausen. Murderous medical experiments on prisoners were carried out in the camp. In 1942‐1944 c. 140 prisoners slaved at manufacturing false British pounds, passports, visas, stamps and other documents. Other prisoners also had to do slave work, for Heinkel aircraft manufacturer, AEG and Siemens among others. On average c. 50,000 prisoners were held at any time. Altogether more than 200,000 inmates were in jailed in KL Sachsenhausen and its branched, out of which tens of thousands perished. Prior to Russian arrival mass evacuation was ordered by the Germans and c. 80,000 prisoners were marched west in so‐called „death marches” to other camps, i.e. KL Mauthausen‐Gusen and KL Bergen‐Belsen. The camp got liberated on 22.04.1945. After end of armed hostilities Germans set up there secret camp for German prisoners and „suspicious” Russian soldiers. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18]
)

Cracow (Montelupich): Cracow penal prison, during occupation run by the Germans — from 28.02.1941 by Germ. Geheime Staatspolizei (Eng. Secret State Police, known as Gestapo. In 1940‐1944 Germans jailed there approx. 50,000 prisoners, mainly Poles and Jews. Some of them were transported to KL Auschwitz concentration camp, some were executed. After cease in war effort the prison was used by UB — a Polish unit of Russian NKVD — as a prison for Polish independence resistance fighters, some of which were subsequently sent to prisons and slave labour camps in Russia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31]
)

Sonderaktion Krakau: German operation against Cracow intelligentsia, part of a broader «Intelligenzaktion» against Polish intelligentsia, carried out in 1939‐1940. On 06.11.1939 Germans arrested 183/4 Cracow professors from prestigiuous universities, mainly Jagiellonian University. They were jailed in Montelupich prison in Cracow prior to being sent to KL Sachsenhausen concentration camp. 4 days later on 10.11.1939 Germans arrested 25 Jesuits from Cracow College. They were also jailed in Montelupich prison and then transported to German concentration camps where 7 of them perished. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.03.01]
)

«Intelligenzaktion»: (Eng. „Action Intelligentsia”) — extermination program of Polish elites, mainly intelligentsia, executed by the Germans right from the start of the occupation in 09.1939 till around 05.1940, mainly on the lands directly incorporated into Germany but also in the so‐called General Governorate where it was called «AB‐aktion». During the first phase right after start of German occupation of Poland implemented as Germ. Unternehmen „Tannenberg” (Eng. „Tannenberg operation”) — plan based on proscription lists of Poles worked out by (Germ. Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen), regarded by Germans as specially dangerous to the German Reich. List contained names of c. 61,000 Poles. Altogether during this genocide Germans methodically murdered c. 50,000 teachers, priests, landowners, social and political activists and retired military. Further 50,000 were sent to concentration camps where most of them perished. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.04]
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Collective responsibility („Hostages”): A criminal practice implemented by the Germans in the occupied territories of Poland, applied from the very first day of World War II. At its core was an appointment and public announcement of a list of names of selected people whose lives depended on absolute compliance with German orders. Any violation of these ordinances, by any person, regardless of the circumstances, resulted in the murder of the designated „hostages”. In the first days of the war and occupation, it was used i.a. by the German Wehrmacht army to prevent acts of continuation of the defense by the Poles. Later, especially in the German‐run General Governorate, it was part of the official policy of the occupation authorities — collective responsibility for any acts of resistance to the occupier's practices. For the life of one German, even if death was due to customary reasons, the Germans carried out executions from a dozen to even a hundred Poles previously designated as „hostages”.

Ribbentrop‐Molotov: Genocidal Russian‐German alliance pact between Russian leader Joseph Stalin and German leader Adolf Hitler signed on 23.08.1939 in Moscow by respective foreign ministers, Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov for Russia and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany. The pact sanctioned and was the direct cause of joint Russian and German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the World War II in 09.1939. In a political sense, the pact was an attempt to restore the status quo ante before 1914, with one exception, namely the „commercial” exchange of the so‐called „Kingdom of Poland”, which in 1914 was part of the Russian Empire, fore Eastern Galicia (today's western Ukraine), in 1914 belonging to the Austro‐Hungarian Empire. Galicia, including Lviv, was to be taken over by the Russians, the „Kingdom of Poland” — under the name of the General Governorate — Germany. The resultant „war was one of the greatest calamities and dramas of humanity in history, for two atheistic and anti‐Christian ideologies — national and international socialism — rejected God and His fifth Decalogue commandment: Thou shall not kill!” (Abp Stanislav Gądecki, 01.09.2019). The decisions taken — backed up by the betrayal of the formal allies of Poland, France and Germany, which on 12.09.1939, at a joint conference in Abbeville, decided not to provide aid to attacked Poland and not to take military action against Germany (a clear breach of treaty obligations with Poland) — were on 28.09.1939 slightly altered and made more precise when a treaty on „German‐Russian boundaries and friendship” was agreed by the same murderous signatories. One of its findings was establishment of spheres of influence in Central and Eastern Europe and in consequence IV partition of Poland. In one of its secret annexes agreed, that: „the Signatories will not tolerate on its respective territories any Polish propaganda that affects the territory of the other Side. On their respective territories they will suppress all such propaganda and inform each other of the measures taken to accomplish it”. The agreements resulted in a series of meeting between two genocidal organization representing both sides — German Gestapo and Russian NKVD when coordination of efforts to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and Polish leading classes (in Germany called «Intelligenzaktion», in Russia took the form of Katyń massacres) where discussed. Resulted in deaths of hundreds of thousands of Polish intelligentsia, including thousands of priests presented here, and tens of millions of ordinary people,. The results of this Russian‐German pact lasted till 1989 and are still in evidence even today. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Pius XI's encyclicals: Facing the creation of two totalitarian systems in Europe, which seemed to compete with each other, though there were more similarities than contradictions between them, Pope Pius XI issued in 03.1937 (within 5 days) two encyclicals. In the „Mit brennender Sorge” (Eng. „With Burning Concern”) published on 14.03.1938, condemned the national socialism prevailing in Germany. The Pope wrote: „Whoever, following the old Germanic‐pre‐Christian beliefs, puts various impersonal fate in the place of a personal God, denies the wisdom of God and Providence […], whoever exalts earthly values: race or nation, or state, or state system, representatives of state power or other fundamental values of human society, […] and makes them the highest standard of all values, including religious ones, and idolizes them, this one […] is far from true faith in God and from a worldview corresponding to such faith”. On 19.03.1937, published „Divini Redemptoris” (Eng. „Divine Redeemer”), in which criticized Russian communism, dialectical materialism and the class struggle theory. The Pope wrote: „Communism deprives man of freedom, and therefore the spiritual basis of all life norms. It deprives the human person of all his dignity and any moral support with which he could resist the onslaught of blind passions […] This is the new gospel that Bolshevik and godless communism preaches as a message of salvation and redemption of humanity”… Pius XI demanded that the established human law be subjected to the natural law of God , recommended the implementation of the ideal of a Christian state and society, and called on Catholics to resist. Two years later, National Socialist Germany and Communist Russia came together and started World War II. (more on: www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

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