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

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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

DROZDEK

forename(s)

Paul (pl. Paweł)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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diocese / province

Katowice diocesemore on
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Wrocław diocesemore on
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date and place
of death

05.01.1945

Magdeburgtoday: Magdeburg urban dist., Saxony‐Anhalt state, Germany
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details of death

In 04.1921 — during times of a plebiscite that was to decide state fate of Upper Silesia and Opole region (20.03.1921) — beaten up in his Jędrysek parish by German thugs and jailed by Germans in Wołczyn prison.

Released — returned to his parish in the meantime as a result of the plebiscite included in Polish Republic.

After German invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II arrested by the Germans in 09.1939.

Released after a few weeks.

Arrested again at the end of 1942.

On 04.12.1942 sentenced in Opole by German summary court to 3 years imprisonment for a defamation of the German Nazi party and predicting German defeat in war.

Jailed in Bautzen penal prison.

There again by the German summary court in Dresden and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for prisoners' incitement.

Perished in Magdeburg penal prison.

cause of death

exhaustion

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

MagdeburgClick to display the description, BautzenClick to display the description, «Intelligenzaktion»Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description, Silesian UprisingsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

11.01.1878

Ujazdtoday: Ujazd gm., Strzelce Opolskie pov., Opole voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

20.06.1903

positions held

1919 – 1942

parish priest — Jędrysektoday: part of Kalety, Kalety urban gm., Tarnowskie Góry pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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⋄ St Joseph RC parish ⋄ Tarnowskie Górytoday: Tarnowskie Góry pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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RC deanery

1912 – 1919

vicar — Mikulczycetoday: district of Zabrze, Zabrze city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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⋄ St Lawrence the Deacon and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Zabrzetoday: Zabrze city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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RC deanery

1912

vicar — Opoletoday: Opole city pov., Opole voiv., Poland
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⋄ Exaltation of the Holy Cross RC parish ⋄ Opoletoday: Opole city pov., Opole voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.02]
RC deanery

1912

vicar — Dobrodzieńtoday: Dobrodzień gm., Olesno pov., Opole voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.02.15]
⋄ St Mary Magdalene RC parish ⋄ Lubliniectoday: Lubliniec urban gm., Lubliniec pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.02]
RC deanery

1911 – 1912

vicar — Stare Siołkowicetoday: Popielów gm., Opole pov., Opole voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.12]
⋄ St Michael the Archangel RC parish ⋄ Stare Siołkowicetoday: Popielów gm., Opole pov., Opole voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.12]
RC deanery

1911

vicar — Rybniktoday: Grabów gm., Łęczyca pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St Anthony of Padua RC parish ⋄ Żorytoday: Żory city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

1908 – 1911

vicar — Świętochłowicetoday: Świętochłowice city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.02]
⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Mysłowicetoday: Mysłowice city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.02]
RC deanery

1906 – 1908

vicar — Szczecintoday: Szczecin city pov., West Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Szczecintoday: Szczecin city pov., West Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1905 – 1906

vicar — Weißenseetoday: locality Berlin‐Weißensee in Berlin, Pankow borough, Berlin state, Germany
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⋄ St Joseph RC parish ⋄ Charlottenburgtoday: locality in Berlin, Charlottenburg‐Wilmersdorf borough, Berlin state, Germany
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[access: 2022.01.07]
RC deanery

1903 – 1905

vicar — Żorytoday: Żory city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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⋄ St Philip and St James the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Żorytoday: Żory city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

1903

vicar — Ujazdtoday: Ujazd gm., Strzelce Opolskie pov., Opole voiv., Poland
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⋄ St Andrew the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Ujazdtoday: Ujazd gm., Strzelce Opolskie pov., Opole voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.02]
RC deanery

1899 – 1903

student — Wrocławtoday: Wrocław city pov., Lower Silesia voiv., Poland
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⋄ philosophy and theology, Department of Theology, University of Wrocław [i.e. University of Wrocław (since 1945) / Frederic Wilhelm University of Silesia (1911‐1945) / Royal University i.e. Breslau Academy (1816‐1911)]

sites and events
descriptions

Magdeburg: German penal prison.

Bautzen: There were two prisons in Bautzen: Bautzen I, the state prison of Saxony founded in 1904 — known as Germ. „Gelbes Elend” (Eng. „Yellow misery”) — and Bautzen II, founded in 1906. During the rule of the democratically elected German National Socialist Party NSDAP (1933‐1945), both prisons housed political prisoners. During World War II, the Ortenburg Castle in Bautzen was also transformed into a prison. Many prisoners — held in inhumane conditions — were Poles. After the end of the hostilities of World War II, the prisons first became part of the Russian Special Camp (1945‐1956) and then the prisons of the political police Stasi of communist Germany.

«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
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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
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Silesian Uprisings: Three armed interventions of the Polish population against Germany in 1919‐1921 aiming at incorporation of Upper Silesia and Opole region into Poland, after the revival of the Polish state in 1918. Took place in the context of a plebiscite ordered on the basis of the international treaty of Versailles of 28.06.1919, ending the First World War, that was to decide national fate of the disputed lands. The 1st Uprising took place on 16‐24.08.1919 and broke out spontaneously in response to German terror and repression against the Polish population. Covered mainly Pszczyna and Rybnik counties and part of the main Upper Silesia industrial district. Suppressed by the Germans. 2nd Uprising took place on 19‐25.08.1920 in response to numerous acts of terror of the German side. Covered the entire area of the Upper Silesia industrial district and part of the Rybnik county. As a result Poles obtained better conditions for the campaign prior the plebiscite. The poll was conducted on 20.03.1921. The majority of the population — 59.6% — were in favor of Germany, but the results were influenced by the admission of voting from former inhabitants of Upper Silesia living outside Silesia. As a result the 3rd Uprising broke out, the largest such uprising of the Silesian in the 20th century. It lasted from 02.05.1921 to 05.07.1921. Spread over almost the entire area of Upper Silesia. Two large battles took place in the area of St. Anna Mountain and near Olza. As a result on 12.10.1921 the international plebiscite commission decided on a more favorable for Poland division of Upper Silesia. The territory granted to Poland was enlarged to about ⅓ of the disputed territory. Poland accounted for 50% of metallurgy and 76% of coal mines. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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