function

religious cleric

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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congregation

Congregation of the Mission CMmore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
(i.e. Vincentians, Lazarists)

date and place
of death

26.02.1945

AL Dachs‐IVsub‐camp of KL Mittelbau‐Dora
today: Petershütte district of Osterode am Harz, Göttingen dist., Lower Saxony state, Germany
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[access: 2022.05.23]

alt. dates and places
of death

02‑04.1945

AL Boelcke‐Kasernesub‐camp of KL Mittelbau‐Dora
today: n. Nordhausen, Nordhausen dist., Thuringia state, Germany
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[access: 2022.05.23]

details of death

alt. details of death

prisoner camp's numbers

112934 (KL Mittelbau‐DoraClick to display the description), 23794 (KL Groß‐RosenClick to display the description)

cause of death

extermination: exhaustion and starvation

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

AL Dachs‐IVClick to display the description, AL Boelcke‐KaserneClick to display the description, KL Mittelbau‐DoraClick to display the description, KL Groß‐RosenClick to display the description, PawiakClick to display the description, 07.02.1944 arrestsClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

08.05.1915

Vynnykytoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

28.10.1939 (Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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positions held

biography (own resources)

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others related
in death

GRZĄDKAClick to display biography Hippolytus, MACIERZYŃSKIClick to display biography Paul Augustine, MAKIELAClick to display biography Theodore Francis, ORGANISZCZAKClick to display biography Vladislav, SZWAJNOCHClick to display biography Steven

sites and events
descriptions

AL Dachs‐IV: Germ. Außenlager (Eng. sub‐camp) of KL Mittelbau‐Dora concentration camp, founded prob. in 11.1944, in the village of Petershütte near Osterode am Harz, in the federal state of Lower Saxony, in the district of Göttingen, in Germany, in the Harz Mountains. The genocidal SS organization used civilian forced laborers, prisoners of the KL Mittlebau‐Dora concentration camp and prisoners of war for works on the construction of an underground oil refinery for the German company Rhenania‐Ossag Mineralölwerke AG from Hamburg (today Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH). Prisoners slaved boring tunnels until c. 21.03.1945 (construction works lasted until the beginning of 04.1945), when 716 prisoners were transported back to Nordhausen, where the main KL Mittelbau‐Dora camp was located, to the barracks of the AL Boelcke‐Kaserne sub‐camp. Only a few of them lived to see the end of the war. (more on: blog.befreiung1945.deClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.05.23])

AL Boelcke‐Kaserne: Germ. Außenlager (Eng. sub‐camp) of KL Mittelbau‐Dora concentration camp in Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany. Set‐up on 08.01.1945 by the SS‐Totenkopfverbände, a genocidal organization responsible for the management of concentration camps, in the former Luftwaffe barracks. Sick prisoners who were considered by the Germans unfit for manual labor were held there. More than 6,000 passed through the camp, of which 3,000 died during the three months of the camp's existence. On 01.04.1945, there were approximately 5,700 prisoners in the camp, held in terrible conditions, and the death rate was 100 people a day. On 02.04.1945, c. 3,000 prisoners were transported to the AL Ellrich sub‐camp of KL Mittelbau. On 03‐04.04.1945 the camp was bombed by British RAF bombers. About 1,450 prisoners were killed. The camp was liberated by American troops on 11.04.1945.

KL Mittelbau‐Dora: German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL, operational from 08.1943 till 11.04.1945 when American troops entered the camp. Set up to provide the slave workforce for an underground military factory „Mittelwerk” — in tunnels of Kohnstein mountain n. Nordhausen town V‐1 and V‐2 rockets were manufactured. Initially functioned as a sub‐camp of KL Buchenwald concentration camp (till summer 1944). Approx. 20,000 prisoner perished (large part of them were brought there at the end of 1944, in „death marches”, from KL Auschwitz), among whom 10,000 during camp evacuation (which also took form of „death marches”) — in 04.1945, right before liberation. Also c. 1,200 prisoners perished during bombardments by the Allied forces. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.01.09])

KL Groß‐Rosen: Groß‐Rosen (today: Rogoźnica) was a German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL, founded in the summer of 1940 (first transport of prisoners arrived on 02.08.1940). Initially a branch of KL Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In 1944 became a centre of a network of more than 100 camps. Prisoners were forced to slave at nearby granite quarries, on starvation rations. More than 125,000 prisoners were enslaved — 40,000 victims perished. In 1945 — in „death marches” — Germans dragged through the camp thousands of prisoners from the camp’s in east being one by one overrun by the Russians. The camp itself was captured by the Russians on 14.02.1945. (more on: www.gross-rosen.euClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.07.18], en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02])

Pawiak: Investigative prison in Warsaw, built by the Russian occupiers of Poland in 1830‐1835. During the Poland partition's period, a Russian investigative prison, both criminal and political. During World War II and the German occupation, the largest German prison in the Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate). Initially, it was subordinate to the Justice Department of the General Governorate, and from 03.1940 Germ. Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienst (Eng. Security Police and Security Service) of the Warsaw District — in particular the German Secret Political Police Gestapo. c. 3,000 prisoners were kept in Pawiak permanently, of which about 2,200 in the men's unit and c. 800 in the women's unit (the so‐called Serbia) — with a „capacity” of c. 1,000 prisoners. In total, in the years 1939‐1944, c. 100,000 Poles passed through the prison, of which c. 37,000 were murdered in executions — from 10.1943 Pawiak prisoners were murdered in open executions on the streets of Warsaw (sometimes several times a day) — during interrogations, in cells or in a prison „hospital”, and c. 60,000 were taken in 95 transports to concentration camps (mainly KL Auischwitz), other places of isolation or to forced labor. The prison Germans demolished during the Warsaw Uprising in 08‐10.1944. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.08.17])

07.02.1944 arrests: In apparent in retaliation for the successful attempt on the head of the Warsaw Gestapo and the SS gen. Kutschera (01.02.1944) German political police (Gestapo) arrested many priests and religious in Warsaw, Cracow, Lublin and Radom, including 17 priests, 14 religious and many pupils and staff members of the Fr Siemiec orphans' house run by Salesian Fathers in Warsaw and 14 Vincentian (Lazarists) priests, 5 Vincentian religious and 3 lay people ministering in the Holy Cross church in Warsaw. They were taken to infamous Pawiak prison in Warsaw and next some of them were transported to KL Groß‐Rosen concentration camp.

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:
www.meczennicy.pelplin.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.10.05]
bibliographical:
„Martyrdom of the Polish clergy 1939‐1956”, Bp Bohdan Bejze, Antoni Galiński (ed.) – collection, Łódź Archdiocesan Publishing House, Łódź 1992
„Catalogue des Maisons et du Personnel de la Congregation de la MissionClick to display source page”
original images:
misjonarze.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2017.11.07], www.miejscapamiecinarodowej.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.04.18]