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

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    St Sigismund parish church, Słomczyn, Poland
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  • GOLDA Charles, source: www.meczennicy.pelplin.pl, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOGOLDA Charles
    source: www.meczennicy.pelplin.pl
    own collection
  • GOLDA Charles, source: www.harmeze.franciszkanie.pl, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOGOLDA Charles
    source: www.harmeze.franciszkanie.pl
    own collection
  • GOLDA Charles, source: www.dziennikzachodni.pl, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOGOLDA Charles
    source: www.dziennikzachodni.pl
    own collection
  • GOLDA Charles - c. 02.02.1942, KL Auschwitz, concentration camp's photo; source: Archives of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim (auschwitz.org), own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOGOLDA Charles
    c. 02.02.1942, KL Auschwitz, concentration camp's photo
    source: Archives of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim (auschwitz.org)
    own collection
  • GOLDA Charles - c. 02.02.1942, KL Auschwitz, concentration camp's photo; source: Archives of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim (auschwitz.org), own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOGOLDA Charles
    c. 02.02.1942, KL Auschwitz, concentration camp's photo
    source: Archives of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim (auschwitz.org)
    own collection
  • GOLDA Charles - c. 02.02.1942, KL Auschwitz, concentration camp's photo; source: Archives of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim (auschwitz.org), own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOGOLDA Charles
    c. 02.02.1942, KL Auschwitz, concentration camp's photo
    source: Archives of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim (auschwitz.org)
    own collection
  • GOLDA Charles - Contemporary image, source: www.dolfi.com, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOGOLDA Charles
    Contemporary image
    source: www.dolfi.com
    own collection
  • GOLDA Charles - Francis Kucharczak, contemporary image; source: from: „Witnesses of truth of this land”, John Kochel, Opole, 2016 (www.ssb24.pl), own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOGOLDA Charles
    Francis Kucharczak, contemporary image
    source: from: „Witnesses of truth of this land”, John Kochel, Opole, 2016 (www.ssb24.pl)
    own collection

religious status

Servant of God

surname

GOLDA

forename(s)

Charles (pl. Karol)

  • GOLDA Charles - Commemorative plaque, Sacred Heart of Jesus basilica, Warsaw, source: pl.wikipedia.org, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOGOLDA Charles
    Commemorative plaque, Sacred Heart of Jesus basilica, Warsaw
    source: pl.wikipedia.org
    own collection
  • GOLDA Charles - Commemorative plaque, Our Lady the Immaculate church, Harmęże, source: www.harmeze.franciszkanie.pl, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOGOLDA Charles
    Commemorative plaque, Our Lady the Immaculate church, Harmęże
    source: www.harmeze.franciszkanie.pl
    own collection
  • GOLDA Charles - Cenotaph, Salesians grave, parish cemetery, Oświęcim, source: polski-cmentarz.com, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOGOLDA Charles
    Cenotaph, Salesians grave, parish cemetery, Oświęcim
    source: polski-cmentarz.com
    own collection

function

religious cleric

creed

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

congregation

Society of St Francis de Sales SDBmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

(i.e. Salesians of Don Bosco)

diocese / province

St Jack Cracow Inspectorate SDB

academic distinctions

Bachelor of Theology

date and place
of death

14.05.1942

KL Auschwitzconcentration camp
today: Oświęcim, Oświęcim gm., Oświęcim pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.09]

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 31.12.1941 prob. for hearing confessions of the German soldiers, which was strictly forbidden, and refusing to reveal the secrets of confession.

Jailed in German KL Auschwitz concentration camp.

Tortured, locked in starvation bunker.

Finally murdered — as the formal cause of death German stated: Germ. „Grippe bei Körper–schwäche” (Eng. „Cold with a weakend heart”).

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

23.12.1914

Tychytoday: Tychy city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]

alt. dates and places
of birth

23.12.1914

religious vows

23.07.1932 (temporary)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

18.12.1938 (Sacro Cuore di Christo Re church in Romemore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
)

positions held

till 1941

head/manager — Oświęcimtoday: Oświęcim gm., Oświęcim pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ Theological Institute (higher theological seminary), Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

friar — Mysłowicetoday: Mysłowice city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.02]
⋄ Society's House, Salesians of Don Bosco SDB — parish minister

from 1939

friar — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ Society's House (at 9 Wroniecka Str.), Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

1939

friar — Lądalso: Ląd on Warta
today: Lądek gm., Słupca pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.11]
⋄ Society's House, Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

1935 – 1939

student — Rometoday: Rome prov., Lazio reg., Italy
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology, „Gregorianum”, i.e. [Lat. Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana / Eng. Pontifical Gregorian University]

1934 – 1935

friar — Dashavatoday: Stryi urban hrom., Stryi rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.09.11]
⋄ Society's House, Salesians of Don Bosco SDB — assistance (educational and pastoral practice)

1932 – 1934

student — Marszałkitoday: Grabów nad Prosną gm., Ostrzeszów pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ philosophy, Philosophical Institute (also known as the Philosophical Studentate), Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

1930 – 1931

novitiate — Czerwińsk nad Wisłątoday: Czerwińsk nad Wisłą gm., Płońsk pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ Society's House, Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

KL Auschwitz (prisoner no: 18160Click to display biography): German KL Auschwitz concentration camp (Germ. Konzentrationslager) and death camp (Germ. Vernichtungslager) camp was set up by Germans around 27.01.1940 n. Oświęcim, on the German territory (initially in Germ. Provinz Schlesien — Silesia Province; and from 1941 Germ. Provinz Oberschlesien — Upper Silesia Province). Initially mainly Poles were interned. From 1942 it became the centre for holocaust of European Jews. Part of the KL Auschwitz concentration camps’ complex was death camp (Germ. Vernichtungslager) KL Auschwitz II Birkenau, located not far away from the main camp. There Germans murder possibly in excess of million people, mainly Jews, in gas chambers. Altogether In excess of 400 priests and religious went through the KL Auschwitz, approx. 40% of which were murdered (mainly Poles). (more on: en.auschwitz.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
, www.meczennicy.pelplin.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.07.06]
)

«Intelligenzaktion Schlesien»: A planned action of arrests and extermination of Polish Upper Silesia intellectual elite in general recorded in a proscription list called „Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen” — participants of Upper Silesia uprisings, former Polish plebiscite activists, journalists, politicians, intellectuals, civil servants, priests — organised by Germans mainly in 04‑05.1940, aiming at total Germanisation of the region. The relevant decree, no IV–D2–480/40, was issued by the RSHA, i.e. Germ. Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Eng. Reich Security Office), and signed by Heinrich Himmler or Reinhard Heydrich. Some of those arrested were murdered in mass executions, some were deported to the German–run General Governorate, and some were sent to concentration camps. The personal details of 3,047 people deported within two months of 1940 were established. Among the victims were 33 Catholic priests, 22 of whom perished in concentration camps (the clergy were sent — in 5 transports — first to KL Dachau, and then to KL Gusen, where they slaved in quarries). Altogether, the Germans murdered c. 2,000 members of the Polish Upper Silesia intellectual elite. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.05.30]
)

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 Stanislaus 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: 2013.05.19]
, www.hagiographycircle.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]

bibliographical:
Salesian Society in Poland under occupation 1939‑1945”, Fr John Pietrzykowski SDB, Institute of National Remembrance IPN, Warsaw, 2015
original images:
www.meczennicy.pelplin.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]
, www.harmeze.franciszkanie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.02.15]
, www.dziennikzachodni.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.02.15]
, auschwitz.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.03.01]
, auschwitz.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.03.01]
, auschwitz.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.03.01]
, www.dolfi.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.02.15]
, www.ssb24.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.02.15]
, pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]
, www.harmeze.franciszkanie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.03.21]
, polski-cmentarz.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.03.01]

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