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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)
personal data
surname
GREGORKIEWICZ
forename(s)
Leo (pl. Leon)
function
diocesan priest
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Culm (Chełmno) diocesemore on
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[access: 2012.11.23]
date and place
of death
11.1939
Klamrytoday: Chełmno gm., Chełmno pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
details of death
In 1903 branded by Germans (Prussians)„agitator for Poland”.
After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II arrested in 10.1939 by the Germans during mass arrests of Polish priests from Łasin deanery — with Fr John Martenka, Fr Stanislaus Niklas, Fr Alois Ptach, Fr Anastasius Sadowski, Fr Francis Wilczewski, among others.
Jailed in Łasin arrested and then moved to Grudziądz prison (held in Kresy–Borderlands Hostel building).
Next prob. on 15.11.1939 moved to Chełmno prison.
Finally taken to Klamry (5 km off Chełmno) and murdered in a mass execution.
cause of death
mass murder
perpetrators
Germans
date and place
of birth
15.04.1872
Wejherowotoday: Wejherowo gm., Wejherowo pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
01.04.1900 (Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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positions held
1928 – 1939
parish priest {parish: Świętetoday: Łasin gm., Grudziądz pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.02.24], St Barbara the Virgin and Martyr; dean.: Grudziądz / Łasindeanery names/seats
today: Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland}
1919 – 1928
curatus/rector/expositus {parish: Goręczynotoday: Somonino gm., Kartuzy pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.03.16], Holy Trinity; church: Kiełpinotoday: Kartuzy gm., Kartuzy pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.07.19], St Michael the Archangel; dean.: Mirachowo / Kartuzydeanery names/seats
today: Kartuzy gm., Kartuzy pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland}
vicar {parish: Łągform.: Łęg
today: Czersk gm., Chojnice pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02], Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Tucholatoday: Tuchola gm., Tuchola pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]}
vicar {parish: Zblewotoday: Zblewo gm., Starogard Gdański pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02], St Michael the Archangel; dean.: Starogard Gdańskitoday: Starogard Gdański gm., Starogard Gdański pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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vicar {parish: Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02], Holy Trinity; dean.: Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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from 1915
vicar {parish: Rogóźnotoday: Rogóźno gm., Grudziądz pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02], St Adalbert the Bishop and Martyr}
1913 – 1915
vicar {parish: Lipusztoday: Lipusz gm., Kościerzyna pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02], St Michael the Archangel; dean.: Mirachowotoday: Kartuzy gm., Kartuzy pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.27]}
1911
vicar {parish: Kielnotoday: Szemud gm., Wejherowo pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28], St Adalbert the Bishop and Martyr}
vicar {parish: Rumiantoday: Rybno gm., Działdowo pow., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07], St Barbara the Virgin and Martyr}
vicar {parish: Oksywietoday: district of Gdynia, Gdynia city pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02], St Michael the Archangel; dean.: Pucktoday: Puck gm., Puck pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]}
1904 – 1905
vicar {parish: Nowe Miasto Lubawskietoday: Nowe Miasto Lubawskie urban gm., Nowe Miasto Lubawskie pow., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02], St Thomas the Apostle}
vicar {parish: Pokrzydowotoday: Zbiczno gm., Brodnica pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02], Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Brodnicatoday: Brodnica urban gm., Brodnica pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.27]}
vicar {parish: Nieżywięćtoday: Bobrowo gm., Brodnica pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02], St John the Baptist}
vicar {parish: Stara Kiszewatoday: Stara Kiszewa gm., Kościerzyna pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02], St Martin, the Bishop and Confessor; dean.: Starogard Gdańskitoday: Starogard Gdański gm., Starogard Gdański pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07]}
vicar {parish: Przysiersktoday: Bukowiec gm., Świecie pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.07.16], St Lawrence the Deacon and Martyr; dean.: Świecietoday: Świecie gm., Świecie pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]}
1896 – 1900
student {Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.05.06], philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary}
1900 – 1939
membership {Toruńtoday: Toruń city pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.20], scientific society}
1918 – 1920
membership {People's Reading Rooms Society}
others related
in death
BROCKIClick to display biography Anthony, DRĄŻKOWSKIClick to display biography Valerian, JARZĘBOWSKIClick to display biography Stanislaus, MARCINKOWSKIClick to display biography Anthony, MIĘTKIClick to display biography Anthony, ODYAClick to display biography Joseph, PUTYNKOWSKIClick to display biography Maximilian, RYNGWELSKIClick to display biography Joseph, SADOWSKIClick to display biography Anastasius, SCHMELTERClick to display biography Henry, SOWIŃSKIClick to display biography Emil Bronislaus, WILCZEWSKIClick to display biography Francis, ŻYNDAClick to display biography Francis, MARTENKAClick to display biography John, NIKLASClick to display biography Stanislaus, PTACHClick to display biography Louis, SADOWSKIClick to display biography Anastasius, WILCZEWSKIClick to display biography Francis
murder sites
camp
(+ prisoner no)
Klamry: From 12.10 till 11.11.1939, in the forest called „Rybieniec” — a forest complex c. 6 km from Chełmno and the Fort VIII concentration camp, stretching latitudinally, on the west‑east axis (neighboring villages of Klamry, Rybieniec, Wabcz, Paparzyn, among others) — the Germans murdered c. 2,000‑2,500 inhabitants of the Chełmno Land, mainly Polish intelligentsia, in mass executions. The victims were brought to the place of the murders three times a day. Members of the German Selbstschutz — a paramilitary formation composed of representatives of the German national minority in Poland — prob. with the support of the SS‑Einsatzgruppen units, used machine guns. Among those shot were teachers (at least 21 educators), officials, engineers, craftsmen, farmers, several Catholic priests, political and social activists. In the second half of 1944, due to the approach of the Russians, the Germans forced a group of Jewish prisoners to dig up the graves and burn the bodies. After this job, the Jews were murdered. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23])
Chełmno: Detention centre run by Germans. Death sentences were probably carried out there. In particular in 1939–40 the prison was used to jail, as a part of „Intelligenzaktion” – extermination of Polish intelligentsia in Pomerania – Polish intelligentsia from Chełmno county prior to sending them to mass execution sites and concentration camps. (more on: www.sw.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.10.05])
Grudziądz: As part of „Intelligenzaktion” — physical extermination of Polish intelligentsia from Pomerania — Germans initially in 1939 jailed Poles is investigative prison in Grudziądz. After it became too small they set‑up a transit camp in a so‑called Borderlands Hostel building at Chopin Str. where they jailed from 4,000 to 5,000 Poles, including c. 150 local priests. Most of them were subsequently murdered in local forests (Księże Góry, Mniszek‑Grupa), some were taken to concentration camps. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.01.13])
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 II World War 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])
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