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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

GOGOLEWSKI

forename(s)

Joseph (pl. Józef)

function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

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

Albany diocese (US‐NY)more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.09.31]

Włocławek i.e. Kalisz diocesemore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.10.13]

date and place
of death

10.05.1941

Piotrków Trybunalskitoday: Piotrków Trybunalski city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.07.29]

details of death

During World War I, organized meetings in his parish of Harkimer in the USA in support of the military efforts of the Entente countries, in particular in support of efforts to create a Polish army alongside American troops.

In 1919, at the request of his friend Ignatius Paderewski — then, after Poland regained independence in 1918, the prime minister of the Polish government — returned to Poland.

During the farewell meeting in Harkimer, at the Mohawk Theater, he gave a speech in which envisioned the short life of the Russian Bolshevik state (was wrong there) and the construction of the Polish state with friendly neighbors — apart from Germany (here was partially right).

In 1920, during the Polish–Russian war of 1919‐1921, conducted a wide lecture campaign in the vicinity of Piotrków Trybunalski, especially among workers, thanks to which many of them joined the Polish Army as volunteers.

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of German occupation, his native Tuszyn, where he lived as a pensioner, was incorporated by the Germans to the newly created German province of Germ. Reichsgau Wartheland (Eng. Warta countryh).

From there prob. evicted by the Germans and moved to the nearby Piotrków Trybunalski, located in the German–administered General Gouvernement (prob. alongside the Jews from Tuszyn, who were locked up in the Piotrków ghetto by the Germans).

There, exhausted after the ordeal, perished.a

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

GeneralgouvernementClick to display the description, Reichsgau WarthelandClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description, Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

12.08.1868

Tuszyntoday: Tuszyn gm., Łódź‐east pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]

alt. dates and places
of birth

10.08.1866, 10.08.1867

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1890

positions held

c. 1930 – c. 1940

resident — Tuszyntoday: Tuszyn gm., Łódź‐east pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Vitalis the Martyr RC parish ⋄ Tuszyntoday: Tuszyn gm., Łódź‐east pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery — retired

1930 – c. 1937

prefect — Pabianicetoday: Pabianice urban gm., Pabianice pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Andrew Śniadecki mathematics and natural sciences State Gymnasium for men ⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary RC parish ⋄ Pabianicetoday: Pabianice urban gm., Pabianice pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1921 – c. 1929

prefect — Łódźtoday: Łódź city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ primary schools ⋄ Exaltation of the Holy Cross RC parish ⋄ Łódźtoday: Łódź city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.18]
RC deanery

1916 – 1919

parish priest — Herkimertoday: Herkimer Cou., New York US‐NY state, United States of America
more on
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[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ St Joseph RC parish

1903 – 1916

parish priest — Schenectadytoday: Schenectady Cou., New York US‐NY state, United States of America
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]
⋄ St Adalbert RC parish — first parish priest and founder of the church

1902 – 1919

priest — (United States of America territory)today: United States of America
more on
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[access: 2022.08.05]

1899 – c. 1902

resident — Częstochowatoday: Częstochowa city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]

1899 – c. 1902

vicar — Zagórówtoday: Zagórów gm., Słupca pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2020.11.01]
⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Słupcatoday: Słupca gm., Słupca pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery — formal posting

1892 – c. 1899

curatus/rector/expositus — Piotrków Trybunalskitoday: Piotrków Trybunalski city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.29]
⋄ St Jack and St Dorothy RC church ⋄ St James the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Piotrków Trybunalskitoday: Piotrków Trybunalski city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.29]
RC deanery

1891 – c. 1892

vicar — Służewotoday: Aleksandrów Kujawski gm., Aleksandrów Kujawski pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2020.12.16]
⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Nieszawatoday: Nieszawa gm., Aleksandrów Kujawski pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.05]
RC deanery

1890 – c. 1891

vicar — Lubień Kujawskitoday: Lubień Kujawski gm., Włocławek pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.16]
⋄ St Catherine the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Włocławektoday: Włocławek city pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

till 1890

student — Włocławektoday: Włocławek city pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

co‐founder of the Association of Polish Merchants, Christian Industrialists in Łódź

sites and events
descriptions

Generalgouvernement: 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. In two of them new German provinces were created, two other were incorporated into other provinces. However, the fifth part was treated separately, and in a political sense it was supposed to recreate the German idea from 1915 (during World War I, after the defeat of the Russians in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915) of creating a Polish enclave within Germany. Illegal in the sense of international law, i.e. Hague Convention, and public law, managed by the Germans according to separate laws — especially established for the Polish Germ. Untermenschen (Eng. subhumans) — till the Russian offensive in 1945 it constituted the Germ. Großdeutschland (Eng. Greater Germany). Till 31.07.1940 formally called Germ. Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete (Eng. General Government for the occupied Polish lands) — later simply Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate), as in the years 1915‐1918. From 07.1941, i.e. after the German attack on 22.06.1941 against the erstwhile ally, the Russians, it also included the Galicia district, i.e. the Polish pre‐war south‐eastern voivodeships. A special criminal law was enacted and applied to Poles and Jews, allowing for the arbitrary administration of the death penalty regardless of the age of the „perpetrator”, and sanctioning the use of collective responsibility. After the end of the military conflict of the World War UU, the government of the Germ. Generalgouvernement was recognized as a criminal organization, and its leader, governor Hans Frank, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and executed. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]
)

Reichsgau Wartheland: 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. Greater Poland 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 24.01.1940 transformed into the Germ. Reichsgau Wartheland 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 90% of its inhabitants were Poles, was Germ. „Entpolonisierung” (Eng. „Depolonisation”), i.e. forced Germanization. C. 100,000 Poles were murdered as part of the Germ. „Intelligenzaktion”, i.e. extermination of Polish intelligentsia and ruling classes. C. 630,000 were forcibly resettled to the Germ. Generalgouvernement, and their place taken by the Germans brought from other areas occupied by Germany (e.g. the Baltic countries, Bessarabia, Bukovina, etc.). Poles were forced to sign the German nationality list, the Germ. Deutsche Volksliste DVL. As part of the policy of „Ohne Gott, ohne Religion, ohne Priesters und Sakramenten” (Eng. „No God, no religion, no priest or sacrament”) most Catholic priests were arrested and sent to concentration camps. All schools teaching in Polish, Polish libraries, theaters and museums were closed. Polish landed estates confiscated. To further reduce the number of the Polish population, Poles were sent to forced labor deep inside Germany, and the legal age of marriage for Poles was increased (25 for women, 28 for men). The German state office, Germ. Rasse‐ und Siedlungshauptamt (Eng. Main Office of Race and Settlement) RuSHA, under the majesty of German law, abducted several thousand children who met specific racial criteria from Polish families and subjected them to forced Germanization, handing them over to German families. 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, Arthur Karl Greiser, was executed. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.06.21]
)

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]
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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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Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921: War for independence of Poland and its borders. Poland regained independence in 1918 but had to fight for its borders with former imperial powers, in particular Russia. Russia planned to incite Bolshevik‐like revolutions in the Western Europe and thus invaded Poland. Russian invaders were defeated in 08.1920 in a battle called Warsaw battle („Vistula river miracle”, one of the 10 most important battles in history, according to some historians). Thanks to this victory Poland recaptured part of the lands lost during partitions of Poland in XVIII century, and Europe was saved from the genocidal Communism. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
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