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

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

DRĄŻKOWSKI

forename(s)

Valerian (pl. Walerian)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

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

honorary titles

Ad Honores Spiritual Counselor

date and place
of death

01.11.1939

Klamrytoday: Chełmno gm., Chełmno pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]

details of death

In the years 1903‐1906 — during German occupation (Prussian partition of Poland) — while studying at the Germ. Königliches Katholisches Gymnasium (Eng. Royal Catholic Gymnasium) in Chełmno, participated in the activities of the Polish clandestine student self–education organization Pomeranian Philomaths.

After German invasion of Poland on 01.09.1939 (Russians invaded Poland 17 days later) and start of the World War II, after start of German occupation, arrested by the Germans at the beginning of 09.1939 (nearby Chełmno Germans captured on 05.09.1939).

For a fortnight held in nearby Zegartowice jail.

Released.

On 16.10.1939 arrested again.

Held in a Chełmno prison set up by the Germans in former Franciscan’s St James the Apostle and St Nicholas the Bishop church.

From there taken to an execution site and murdered.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

KlamryClick to display the description, ChełmnoClick to display the description, «Intelligenzaktion»Click to display the description, Reichsgau Danzig‐WestpreußenClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description, Pomeranian PhilomathsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

10.12.1883

Stara Kiszewatoday: Stara Kiszewa gm., Kościerzyna pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

13.03.1910 (Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.05.06]
)

positions held

1931 – 1939

parish priest — Wielkie Czystetoday: Stolno gm., Chełmno pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St Catherine of Alexandria the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Chełmnotoday: Chełmno urban gm., Chełmno pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.25]
RC deanery — also: inspector of religious education in elementary schools

1934 – 1935

deputy dean — Chełmnotoday: Chełmno urban gm., Chełmno pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.25]
RC deanery

1923 – 1931

parish priest — Nowa Cerkiewtoday: Chojnice gm., Chojnice pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St Mary Magdalene RC parish ⋄ Tuchola / Chojnicedeanery names/seats
today: Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
RC deanery

1921 – 1923

vicar — Wieletoday: Korsin gm., Kościerzyna pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Tucholatoday: Tuchola gm., Tuchola pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery

1920

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

administrator — Łopatkitoday: Książki gm., Wąbrzeźno pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Mary Magdalene RC parish

administrator — Wielkie Czystetoday: Stolno gm., Chełmno pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St Catherine of Alexandria the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Chełmnotoday: Chełmno urban gm., Chełmno pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.25]
RC deanery

vicar — Szynwałdtoday: Łasin gm., Grudziądz pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish

1915

administrator — Dzierżążnotoday: Możeszczyn gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ St James the Elder the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Gniewtoday: Gniew gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.29]
RC deanery

1914 – 1915

vicar — Sierakowicetoday: Sierakowice gm., Kartuzy pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St Martin and St John Nepomucene RC parish ⋄ Mirachowotoday: Kartuzy gm., Kartuzy pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

1912 – 1914

vicar — Barłożnotoday: Skórcz gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St Martin, the Bishop and Confessor 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

1910 – 1911

vicar — Lubichowotoday: Lubichowo gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St James the Elder the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Starogard Gdańskitoday: Starogard Gdański gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.07]
RC deanery

vicar — Dobrcztoday: Dobrcz gm., Bydgoszcz pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St Lawrence the Martyr RC parish ⋄ Fordontoday: district of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz city pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery

1910 – 1919

membership — Toruńtoday: Toruń city pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.20]
⋄ scientific society

1906 – 1910

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

others related
in death

BROCKIClick to display biography Anthony, GREGORKIEWICZClick to display biography Leo, JARZĘBOWSKIClick to display biography Stanislav, MARCINKOWSKIClick to display biography Anthony, MIĘTKIClick to display biography Anthony, ODYAClick to display biography Joseph Florian, PUTYNKOWSKIClick to display biography Maximilian John, RYNGWELSKIClick to display biography Joseph, SADOWSKIClick to display biography Anastasius, SCHMELTERClick to display biography Henry, SOWIŃSKIClick to display biography Emil Bronislav, WILCZEWSKIClick to display biography Francis Joseph, ŻYNDAClick to display biography Francis, KOPAŃSKIClick to display biography Conrad, GASIŃSKIClick to display biography Louis, NAGÓRSKIClick to display biography Edmund, MARTENKAClick to display biography John, NIKLASClick to display biography Stanislav

sites and events
descriptions

Klamry: From 12.10 till 11.11.1939, in the forest called „Rybieniec” — a forest complex c. 6 km from Chełmno and the Fort VIII concentration camp, stretching latitudinally, on the west‐east axis (neighboring villages of Klamry, Rybieniec, Wabcz, Paparzyn, among others) — the Germans murdered c. 2,000‐2,500 inhabitants of the Chełmno Land, mainly Polish intelligentsia, in mass executions. The victims were brought to the place of the murders three times a day. Members of the German Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz — a paramilitary formation composed of representatives of the German national minority in Poland — prob. with the support of the SS‐Einsatzgruppen units, used machine guns. Among those shot were teachers (at least 21 educators), officials, engineers, craftsmen, farmers, several Catholic priests, political and social activists. In the second half of 1944, due to the approach of the Russians, the Germans forced a group of Jewish prisoners to dig up the graves and burn the bodies. After this job, the Jews were murdered. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
)

Chełmno: Detention centre run by Germans. Death sentences were probably carried out there. In particular in 1939‐1940 the prison was used to jail, as a part of «Intelligenzaktion» ‐ extermination of Polish intelligentsia in Pomerania ‐ Polish intelligentsia from Chełmno county prior to sending them to mass execution sites and concentration camps. (more on: www.sw.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.10.05]
)

«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]
)

Reichsgau Danzig‐Westpreußen: 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). Two were added to existing German provinces. From two other separate new provinces were created. Vistula Pomerania region was one of them, incorporated into Germany on 08.10.1939, by decree of the German leader Adolf Hitler (formally came into force on 26.10.1939), and on 02.11.1939 transformed into the Germ. Reichsgau Danzig‐Westpreußen (Eng. Reich District of Gdańsk‐West Prussia) province, in which the law of the German state was to apply. The main axis of the policy of the new province, the territory of which the Germans recognized as the Germ. „Ursprünglich Deutsche” (Eng. „natively German”), despite the fact that 85% of its inhabitants were Poles, was Germ. „Entpolonisierung” (Eng. „Depolonisation”), i.e. forced Germanization. C. 60,000 Poles were murdered in 1939‐1940, as part of the Germ. „Intelligenzaktion”, i.e. extermination of Polish intelligentsia and ruling classes, in c. 432 places of mass executions — including c. 220 Polish Catholic priests. The same number were sent to German concentration camps, from where few returned (over 300 priests were arrested, of whom c. 130 died in concentration camps). C. 124,000‐170,000 were displaced, including c. 90,000 to the Germ. Generalgouvernement. Poles were forced en masse to sign the German nationality list, the Germ. Deutsche Volksliste DVL. Polish children could only learn in German. It was forbidden to use the Polish language during Catholic Holy Masses and during confession. Polish landed estates were confiscated..To further reduce the number of the Polish population, Poles were sent to forced labor deep inside Germany. The remaining Poles were treated as low‐skilled labor, isolated from the Germans and strictly controlled — legally, three or three of them could only meet together, even in their own apartments. Many were conscripted into the German Wehrmacht army. 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, Albert Maria Forster, was executed. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.06.24]
)

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]
)

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]
)

Pomeranian Philomaths: Secret societies of Polish youth, aiming at self‐education, patriotic in form and content, functioning 1830‐1920, mainly in secondary schools — gymnasia — in Pomerania around Vistula river (Gdańsk Pomerania and Chełmno county), in Prussian‐occupied Polish territories (one of the partitions of Poland). On 08.01.1901 Germans conducted a series of interrogations of students at Chełmno, Brodnica and Toruń gymnasiums. On 09‐12.09.1901 the first of court trials of Polish students from those gymnasiums and students of Theological Seminary in Pelplin was held in Toruń. 1 person was sentenced to 3 months in prison, 1 to 2 months, 3 to 6 weeks, 7 to 3 weeks, 2 to 2 weeks, 19 to a week, 2 to 1 day, 10 were reprimanded. 15 were cleared. More definitive penalties were relegations from the schools with so‐called wolf’s ticket, forbidding sentenced students to continue secondary and higher studies in Prussia (Germany). Among those penalized were a few future Catholic priests — those were able to continue their education for the Chełmno diocese bishop, Bp August Rosentreter, refused to relegate students from Theological Seminary. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18]
)

sources

personal:
www.niedziela.diecezja.torun.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
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[access: 2013.01.13]
, www.kpbc.ukw.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.04]

bibliographical:
Biographical dictionary of priests of the Chełmno diocese ordained in the years 1821‐1920”, Henry Mross, Pelplin, 1995
original images:
www.bikop.euClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.08.19]
, www.fluidi.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.04]
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[access: 2020.10.02]

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