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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

FOLLEHER

forename(s)

Augustine Felix (pl. Augustyn Feliks)

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Augustus (pl. August)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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diocese / province

Culm (Chełmno) diocesemore on
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[access: 2012.11.23]

date and place
of death

18.02.1945

Silnotoday: Chojnice gm., Chojnice pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of death

13‑18.02.1945

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, arrested by the Germans on 05.04.1941.

Jailed in Chojnice.

Released after few days.

In 1941‐1944 ministered — in place of Fr Albin Pakalski, murdered by the Germans — as a parish priest in Zamarte parish.

On 05.04.1941 arrested by the Germans in a pensioner's house in Zamartem and imprisoned in Chojnice. Released after a few days.

From then on until 1944 ministered as administrator in Zamarte.

At the end of 1944, the family took the seriously ill man to his hometown Silno, c. 25 km east of Zamarte.

There — during the Russian so‐called Pomeranian operation (part of the Vistula–Oder operation, which led to the end of the war a few months later) — moved and hidden in a basement. Left there with some food, and then the family left the house.

On 13‐14.02.1945, fierce German–Russian fighting (there were many Latvians in German ranks) took place near Silno and Zamarte, on the southern outskirts of Chojnice. Chojnice were captured by the Russians on 14‐18.02.1945. The house in the basement of which was hiding was burned down on February 13‐18.02.1945.

Perished in this house.

cause of death

warfare

perpetrators

Germans / Russians

sites and events

IL KonitzClick 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

date and place
of birth

02.10.1872

Silnotoday: Chojnice gm., Chojnice pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

01.07.1900

positions held

1941 – 1944

curatus/rector/expositus — Zamartetoday: Kamień Krajeński gm., Sępólno Krajeńskie pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC church ⋄ Ogorzelinytoday: Chojnice gm., Chojnice pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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, Exaltation of the Holy Cross RC parish ⋄ Chojnicetoday: Chojnice urban gm., Chojnice pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery

1906 – 1941

pensioner — Zamartetoday: Kamień Krajeński gm., Sępólno Krajeńskie pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ House of Retired Priests, monastery (post–Bernardine) ⋄ Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC church ⋄ Ogorzelinytoday: Chojnice gm., Chojnice pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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, Exaltation of the Holy Cross RC parish

vicar — Przechlewotoday: Przechlewo gm., Człuchów pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ St Anne RC parish ⋄ Człuchówtoday: Człuchów gm., Człuchów pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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RC deanery

vicar — Radawnicatoday: Złotów gm., Złotów pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Barbara the Virgin and Martyr RC parish

vicar — Lichnowytoday: Chojnice gm., Chojnice pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ St Hedwig of Silesia RC parish ⋄ Tucholatoday: Tuchola gm., Tuchola pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery

vicar — Miłobądztoday: Tczew gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ St Margaret the Martyr RC parish ⋄ Tczewtoday: Tczew urban gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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RC deanery

1896 – 1900

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

sites and events
descriptions

IL Konitz: Germ. „Internierungslager” (Eng. „Internment camp”) set up by the Germans on c. 02.09.1939, immediately after the occupation of Chojnice and the beginning of the German occupation, intended for the inhabitants of Chojnice and the Chojnice poviat. The camp — until 07.09.1939, subordinated to the German army Wehrmacht, and then managed by officers of the genocidal organization Germ. Einsatzgruppen (Eng. Operational Groups), subordinated to the Germ. Reichssicherheitshauptamt RSHA (Eng. Main Reich Security Office) — was organized on the premises of the Juvenile Reformatory Institute in Chojnice. It operated till the end of 11.1939. At least 2,000 Poles were held there, mainly representatives of the local intelligentsia, as well as members of Polish patriotic organizations, e.g. Polish Western Union. Most of them, along with c. 215 mentally ill children from the National Social Welfare Institution in Chojnice (a branch of the psychiatric hospital in Kocborowo), were murdered — as part of the „Intelligenzaktion” — including at the nearby execution site at Pola Igielskie. In the years 1941‐1943, a transit camp for Poles destined for a slave labor in Germany. (more on: www.sdnchojnice.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]
)

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]
)

sources

personal:
orka2.sejm.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.12.28]
, www.najigoche.kaszuby.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.01.26]
, www.kpbc.ukw.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.04]

bibliographical:
Martyrology of the Polish Roman Catholic clergy under nazi occupation in 1939‐1945”, Victor Jacewicz, John Woś, vol. I‐V, Warsaw Theological Academy, 1977‐1981
Biographical dictionary of priests of the Chełmno diocese ordained in the years 1821‐1920”, Henry Mross, Pelplin, 1995
original images:
gdziebylec.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.11.11]

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