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

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surname

DOBROWOLSKI

forename(s)

Bronislav (pl. Bronisław)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Płock diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.12.20]

date and place
of death

31.05.1943

KL Pomiechówek Fort IIIconcentration camp
today: Pomiechówek, Pomiechówek gm., Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki pov., Masovia voiv., Poland

more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.09]

alt. dates and places
of death

30.05.1943

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, after arrest of Nasielsk parish priest on 10.10.1942 (earlier, on 04.12.1940, during the deportation of a part of the Polish population of Nasielsk to the nearby General Governorate — the Germans incorporated Nasielsk directly to Germany, to the newly established Germ. Regierungsbezirk Zichenau, i.e. Eng. Ciechanów district, within the Germ. Provinz Ostpreußen, i.e. the East Prussia province — the Germans expelled two other priests working in the parish) became the only priest in this parish.

Helped Polish clandestine resistance Home Army AK (part of Polish Clandestine State), providing shelter to its officers.

Arrested on 10.02.1943 as a results of arrests of a number of AK members (and members of clandestine National Armed Forces NSZ) one of whom caved in during tortures.

Jailed in prisons in Nowy Dwór where was tortured and Płońsk.

Then in 03.1943 transported to KL Soldau concentration camp from where on 26.05.1943 taken to Pomiechówek (Fort III) concentration camp.

There murdered — hanged — in a mass execution of 48 Poles sentenced on 30.05.1943 by a German kangaroo Germ. Standgericht (Eng. Summary Court).

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

KL Pomiechówek Fort IIIClick to display the description, KL SoldauClick to display the description, PłońskClick to display the description, Regierungsbezirk ZichenauClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

03.09.1911

Maławatoday: part of Kowale village, Baboszewo gm., Płońsk pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

06.06.1937 (Płock cathedralmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
)

positions held

1939 – 1943

vicar — Nasielsktoday: Nasielsk gm., Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Adalbert the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Nasielsktoday: Nasielsk gm., Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1937 – 1939

vicar — Tłuchowotoday: Tłuchowo gm., Lipno pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Dobrzyń nad Wisłątoday: Dobrzyń nad Wisłą gm., Lipno pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1930 – 1937

student — Płocktoday: Płock city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

sites and events
descriptions

KL Pomiechówek Fort III: German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL — formally known as Germ. Polizei Gefängnis (Eng. police prison), but also Germ. Todeslager (Eng. death camp, torture camp) or Germ. Durchgangslager (Eng. transit camp) — set‐up by Germans in military forts of Fortress Modlin n. Warsaw, largest in German occupied northern Masovia, in Germ. Regierungsbezirk Zichenau (Eng. Ciechanów Regency), part of German province Germ. Ostpreußen (Eng. East Prussia), where German state law was in force. In 1941‐1944 from 50,000 to 100,000 prisoners were held there, in atrocious conditions, mainly Poles, members of clandestine resistance organizations (part of Polish Clandestine State), but also Jews (till 1943). Thousands were murdered (including c. 6,000‐10,000 of Jews) — an unambiguous determination of the number of murdered is impossible, for from the beginning of 1944 the Germans started to wipe out the traces of the crimes. During camp closure Germans murdered all remaining inmates (apart from c. 25 women). (more on: www.dolinawkry.c0.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
, pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.06.23]
)

KL Soldau: German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL Soldau (in modern Działdowo city) — since the pre‐war Polish Działdowo county was incorporated into Germ. Regierungsbezirk Allenstein (Eng. Olsztyn regency) the camp was located in occupied territories where general German law was in force, i.e. in Germany proper — was founded in 09.1939, when in former barracks of 32nd Infantry Regiment of Polish Army Germans set up a temporary camp for POW captured during September 1939 campaign. In autumn 1939 was also used as police jail. In 1939‐1940 changed into Germ. Durchgangslager für polnische Zivilgefangene (Eng. Transit Camp for Polish Civilians), prior to transport to other concentration camps. In reality it was used then as a place of extermination of Polish intelligentsia within Germ. «Intelligenzaktion» genocidal program and extermination of sick and disabled within «Aktion T4» program. Next in 05.1940 the camp was changed again into Germ. Arbeitserziehungslager (Eng. Work Education Camp), and finally into penal comp for criminal and political prisoners, most of whom were sentenced to death. In 1939‐1941 Germans imprisoned, maltreated and tortured in KL Soldau hundreds of Polish priests and religious. Approx. 80 priests, religious and nuns perished. They were murdered in the camp itself, by a shot into a head, or in places of mass executions in nearby forests — Białuty forest, Malinowo forets, Komorniki. Dates and precise locations of these murders remain unknown. Altogether in KL Soldau approx. 15,000 prisoners were murdered, including thousands victims — patients of psychiatric institutions (within «Aktion T4» plan). (more on: mazowsze.hist.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
, en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.09.02]
)

Płońsk: The buildings of the prison in Płońsk were built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, during the Russian partition. During World War II and the German occupation, prison and jail of the German political police Gestapo. Polish prisoners — the intelligentsia and teachers were particularly persecuted — were next transported to slave labor and concentration camps, mainly KL Soldau and KL Pomiechówek Fort III. Altogether c. 7,885 people from the Płońsk county were murdered. On 16.01.1945, during the panic retreat, three days before the arrival of triumphant Russians, in the so‐called Piaski district of Płońsk, the Germans murdered 78 Poles from the Płońsk prison in a mass execution. After the start of the Russian occupation, the prison was taken over by the Commie‐Nazi Office of Public Security UB, in the service of the Russian genocidal KGB. (more on: www.sw.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.10.05]
)

Regierungsbezirk Zichenau: After the Polish defeat in the 09.1939 campaign, which was the result of the Ribbentrop‐Molotov Pact and constituted the first stage of World War II, and the beginning of German occupation in part of Poland (in the other, eastern part of Poland, the Russian occupation began), the Germans divided the occupied Polish territory into five main regions (and a few smaller). The largest one was transformed into Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate), intended exclusively for Poles and Jews and constituting part of the so‐called Germ. Großdeutschland (Eng. Greater Germany). From two separate new provinces were created. The two remaining were incorporated into existing German provinces. One of those was the Germ. Regierungsbezirk Zichenau (Eng. Ciechanów regency), created from part of the occupied Warsaw voivodeship, and incorporated into the Germ. Provinz Ostpreußen (Eng. East Prussia) — on the basis of the decree of the German leader Adolf Hitler of 08.10.1939 (formally in force from 26.10.1939) — in which the law of the German state was applicable. The main axis of the policy of the new regency, the territory of which the Germans recognized as the Germ. „Ursprünglich Deutsche” (Eng. „natively German”), despite the fact only 6% of its pre–war Polish part were Germans, was Germ. „Entpolonisierung” (Eng. „Depolonisation”), i.e. forced Germanization, and Germ. Zwangsarbeit (Eng. forced slave labor). Most of the Germ. Zivilarbeiter (Eng. civilian worker) slaved in the Germ. Provinz Ostpreußen. Some Poles— c. 25,000 — were deported to the Germ. Generalgouvernement; some were sent to concentration camps. Children could only learn in German. A policy of terror was pursued against the Polish population — 8 large prisons operated in a small area, Polish organizations and institutions were closed. The Polish press was liquidated. After the end of hostilities of World War II, the overseer of this province, the Germ. Reichsstatthalter (Eng. Reich Governor) and the Germ. Gauleiter (Eng. district head) of the German National Socialist Party, Erich Koch, initially went into hiding, then was captured and extradited to the Commie–Nazi republic of Poland prl, sentenced to death, but the sentence was not carried out and died in prison in 1986. The Germ. Regierungspräsidenten Zichenau (Eng. superpresident of the Ciechanów regency) hid better and his post‐war fate is still unknown. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.06.24]
)

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
[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:
martyrologium.w.interia.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
, ioh.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.06.11]

bibliographical:
Płock diocese clergy martyrology during II World War 1939‐1945”, Fr Nicholas Marian Grzybowski, Włocławek–Płock 2002
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