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

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surname

BRZĄKAŁA

forename(s)

Victor (pl. Wiktor)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Culm (Chełmno) diocesemore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2012.11.23]

date and place
of death

23.04.1940

KL Sachsenhausenconcentration camp
today: Sachsenhausen–Oranienburg, Oberhavel dist., Brandenburg state, Germany

more on
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[access: 2018.11.18]

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, detained on 10.09.1939 by the Germans on the day the Germans entered his parish, and locked in the church. Kept as a hostage — threatened with death in the event of Polish spontaneous, armed resistance. Released.

Arrested again by the Germans on 21.10.1939.

Jailed in Nowe prison. There contracted pleurisy and was taken to the hospital in Świecie.

After recovery, on 04.12.1939 moved to the transit camp in Górna Grupa.

On 05.02.1940 transported to the ZL Neufahrwasser transit camp in Gdańsk.

From there on 08.02.1940 transported to the KL Stutthof concentration camp.

On 26.03‑06.04.1940 forced to perform forced labor in quarries in the ZL Grenzdorf subcamp.

Finally on 09‑10.04.1940 transported to KL Sachsenhausen concentration camp where was murdered: beaten with sticks, drenched with cold water, and forced to wait for many hours for his camp clothes to be taken to the laundry, kicked to death.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

05.03.1904

Radawnicatoday: Złotów gm., Złotów pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth

05.04.1904

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

11.06.1927 (Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.05.06]
)

positions held

1932 – 1939

curatus/rector/expositus — Lipinkitoday: Warlubie gm., Świecie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians RC church ⋄ Płochocintoday: Warlubie gm., Świecie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
, St Lawrence the Deacon and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Nowealso: Nowe nad Wisłą
today: Nowe gm., Świecie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

1930 – 1931

administrator — Niewieścintoday: Pruszcz gm., Świecie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.02.24]
⋄ St James the Elder the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Świecietoday: Świecie gm., Świecie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery

c. 1930

vicar — Płochocintoday: Warlubie gm., Świecie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Lawrence the Deacon and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Nowealso: Nowe nad Wisłą
today: Nowe gm., Świecie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

1928 – c. 1930

vicar — Parchowotoday: Parchowo gm., Bytów pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.02.24]
⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Kościerzynatoday: Kościerzyna urban gm., Kościerzyna pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.08.20]
RC deanery

1927 – 1928

vicar — Lipusztoday: Lipusz gm., Kościerzyna pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St Michael the Archangel RC parish ⋄ Mirachowotoday: Kartuzy gm., Kartuzy pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

1927

vicar — Lisewotoday: Lisewo gm., Chełmno pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ Exaltation of the Holy Cross RC parish ⋄ Chełmnotoday: Chełmno urban gm., Chełmno pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.25]
RC deanery

1923 – 1927

student — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.05.06]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

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murder sites
camp 
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KL Sachsenhausen (prisoner no: 20950Click to display biography): In KL Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 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]
)

ZL Grenzdorf: German Germ. Zivilgefangenenlager (Eng. camp for civilians) in Graniczna Wieś village. Existed in 1939‑1941. In 1940 — when in became a sub‑camp of KL Stutthof concentration camp and as such was known as Germ. Aussenstelle (pl. external camp) — c. 100 Polish priests from Pomerania — as a part of «Intelligenzaktion» aimed at extermination of Polish intelligentsia and ruling classes in Pomerania — were kept there and forced to slave at manufacturing of road bricks. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.03.10]
)

KL Stutthof: In KL Stutthof (then in Eastern Prussian belonging to Germany, today: Sztutowo village) concentration camp, that Germans started to build on 02.09.1939, a day after German invasion of Poland and start of the World War II, Germans held c. 100‑127 thousands prisoners from 28 countries, including 47 thousands women and children. C. 65,000 victims were murdered and exterminated. In the period of 25.01–27.04.1945 in the face of approaching Russian army Germans evacuated the camp. When on 09.05.1945 Russians soldiers entered the camp only 100 prisoners were still there. In an initial period (1939‑40) Polish Catholic priests from Pomerania were held captive there before being transported to KL Dachau concentration camp. Some of them were murdered in KL Stutthof or vicinity (for instance in Stegna forest). Also later some Catholic priests were held in KL Stutthof. (more on: stutthof.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18]
, en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.07.06]
)

ZL Neufahrwasser: Germ. Zivilgefangenenlager (Eng. POW camp for civilians) organized by the Germans on the day of the outbreak of the war, on 01.09. 1939, in Gdańsk – Nowy Port (New Port), in former artillery barracks belonging to Poland, for Poles from Pomerania arrested as part of the «Intelligenzaktion» action — extermination of Polish intelligentsia. Prisoners from ZL Neufahrwasser — 2,702 people were identified, but it is estimated that c. 10,000 arrestees passed through the camp — were sent to the KL Stutthof concentration camp or directly to the places of extermination. The camp operated till 01.04.1940 (more on: stutthof.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10]
, ofiaromwojny.republika.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]
)

Górna Grupa: From 10.1939 till approx. 04.1940 in Górna Grupa in Divine Word Missionaries (SVD) congregation house Germans organised — as part of «Intelligenzaktion», extermination of Polish intelligentsia in Pomerania — a transit camp for Poles, including 95 priests, from Świecie, Bydgoszcz, Chełmno, Grudziądz and Starogard Gdański counties. Approx. of them perished, including 17 that were subsequently executed in Mnichek‑Grupa. In the same place in 1945 Russians set up a concentration camp for Germans, among whom two priests perished. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
, www.kpbc.ukw.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.27]
)

Nowe on Vistula: German court jail used in 1939 to hold, as a part of «Intelligenzaktion» aimed at extermination of Polish intelligentsia and ruling classes in Pomerania, local Polish inhabitants, including local priests. Some of them were subsequently taken to Mniszek and murdered. (more on: miastonowe.website.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31]
)

«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]
)

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 Stanislaus 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
[access: 2015.09.30]
)

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]
)

sources

personal:
groby.radaopwim.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]
, polacywberlinie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]

bibliographical:
Biographical dictionary of priests ordained in the years 1921‑1945 working in the Chełmno diocese”, Fr Anastasius Nadolny, prof., Bernardinum publishing house 2021
original images:
kohr.kujawsko-pomorskie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31]

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