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

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

GOŹDZIK

forename(s)

Joseph (pl. Józef)

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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]

Warsaw archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.12.20]

honorary titles

Rochettum et Mantolettum canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]

date and place
of death

07.04.1943

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

alt. dates and places
of death

07.04.1942

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 on 02.04.1940.

Jailed in Piotrków Trybunalski prison.

Tortured.

Released on 15.08.1940.

Exhausted, did not recover and perished.

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

GeneralgouvernementClick to display the description, «Intelligenzaktion»Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

11.03.1890

Złaków Borowytoday: Zduny gm., Łowicz pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth

12.03.1890

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1913

positions held

c. 1939 – 1942

vicar general — part of the diocese that in 1939 found itself in the German–run General Governorate

1933 – 1942

dean — Piotrków Trybunalskitoday: Piotrków Trybunalski city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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RC deanery

1933 – 1942

parish priest — Piotrków Trybunalskitoday: Piotrków Trybunalski city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.29]
⋄ 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 — also: auxiliary chaplain of the Polish Armed Forces garrison in Piotrków Trybunalski (c. 1938 ‐ 1939)

1928 – c. 1932

curatus/rector/expositus — Piotrków Trybunalskitoday: Piotrków Trybunalski city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.29]
⋄ St Francis Xavier RC church ⋄ St James the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Piotrków Trybunalskitoday: Piotrków Trybunalski city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.29]
RC deanery — also: prefect of elementary schools

c. 1922 – c. 1926

prefect — Tomaszów Mazowieckitoday: Tomaszów Mazowiecki urban gm., Tomaszów Mazowiecki pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.29]
⋄ St Anthony of Padua RC parish ⋄ Tomaszów Mazowieckitoday: Tomaszów Mazowiecki urban gm., Tomaszów Mazowiecki pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.29]
RC deanery

c. 1921

vicar — Tarczyntoday: Tarczyn gm., Piaseczno pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Grójectoday: Grójec gm., Grójec pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

c. 1920

prefect — Gostynintoday: Gostynin gm., Gostynin pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Thaddeus Kosciuszko's State Philological Gymnasium ⋄ St Martin, the Bishop and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Gostynintoday: Gostynin gm., Gostynin pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

c. 1919

chaplain — Studzieniectoday: Puszcza Mariańska gm., Żyrardów pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.03.16]
⋄ St Stanislav Kostka the Confessor RC chapel ⋄ Puszcza Mariańskatoday: Puszcza Mariańska gm., Żyrardów pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.03.16]
, St Michael the Archangel RC parish ⋄ Grodzisktoday: from 1928 Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Grodzisk Mazowiecki gm., Grodzisk Mazowiecki pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01]
RC deanery

c. 1918

prefect — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ public schools ⋄ Warsaw‐in‐urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

c. 1917

vicar — WarsawPraga district on the right bank of Vistula
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St Michael the Archangel and St Florian RC church ⋄ Our Lady of Loreto RC parish ⋄ Warsaw‐in‐urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

c. 1914 – c. 1916

vicar — Bolimówtoday: Bolimów gm., Skierniewice pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Łowicztoday: Łowicz urban gm., Łowicz pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

c. 1909 – c. 1913

student — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary

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]
)

«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
[access: 2014.10.04]
)

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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, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
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sources

personal:
archidiecezja.lodz.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
, dziwoszbogdan.republika.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.12.28]
, cybra.lodz.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.04.18]

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
original images:
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