Roman Catholic
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
religious status
Servant of God
surname
HAMERSKI
forename(s)
John Joseph (pl. Jan Józef)
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]
honorary titles
Gold „Cross of Merit”more on
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[access: 2019.04.16]
„Medal of Independence”more on
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[access: 2019.02.02]
date and place
of death
06.10.1939
Tryszczyntoday: Koronowo gm., Bydgoszcz pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of death
07.10.1939
details of death
While studying at Marianum College in Pelplin (1892‑1898), during German XIX century occupation, active in Polish clandestine „Mickiewicz” Pomeranian Philomaths organisation. And later, while studying at the Germ. Königliches Katholisches Gymnasium (Eng. Royal Catholic Gymnasium) in Chełmno, was a member of this school's Polish clandestine student self–education chapter of Philomaths organization, teaching younger colleagues Polish literature and history.
During studies at Theological Seminary in Pelplin editor of clandestine newspaper „Owls”.
After the end of World War I on 11.11.1918 — on that day, in Compiègne, in the HQ train of Marshal of France Ferdinand Foch, an armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany; on the same day, the Regency Council established by the Germans, operating in the area occupied by the Germans, the so‑called General Governorate, transferred the supreme authority over the army to Brigadier Joseph Piłsudski and appointed him commander‑in‑chief of the Polish army, which de facto meant the rebirth of the Polish state; on the same day, in the territory of Poland directly incorporated into Prussia/Germany (partitions of Poland), the Polish People's Council was revealed in Poznań, renamed the Supreme People’s Council three days later, which supported the idea of establishing a unified Polish state with access to the sea — elected on 17.11.1918, chairman of the Polish People's Council in Wtelno. Contributed also to the establishment of People's Councils in the nearby villages of Gościeradz, Tryszczyn and Szczutki. Became a member of the District People's Council in Bydgoszcz, in which led the statistical section of the Bydgoszcz district (developed the first Polish statistics of that district).
During Greater Poland Uprising of 1918‑1919 organiser of weaponry purchases for Polish insurgents.
After German invasion of Poland on 01.09.1939 (Russians attacked Poland 17 days later) and start of the World War II, after start of German occupation, arrested by the Germans in 09.1939.
Jailed in Byszewo and next brought to Koronowo.
There marched to an execution site where shallow ditches had already been dug out.
Surrendered to God's mercy and said: „God, forgive them for they know not what they do”.
Hearing this perpetrators abandoned preparations for execution advising the priest leave the parish and never come back.
But he returned back to Wtelno.
There on 06.10.1939 again arrested by the Germans and in a nearby forest beaten to death with rifle butts.
cause of death
mass murder
perpetrators
Germans
date and place
of birth
07.03.1880
Brusytoday: Brusy gm., Chojnice pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
25.03.1906 (Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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positions held
1937 – 1939
dean — Fordontoday: district of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] RC deanery
1916 – 1939
parish priest — Wtelnotoday: Koronowo gm., Bydgoszcz pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] ⋄ St Michael the Archangel RC parish ⋄ Fordontoday: district of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] RC deanery — also: inspector of religious education in elementary schools (c. 1934‑1936)
c. 1929
membership — Bydgoszcztoday: Bydgoszcz city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.20] ⋄ County Assembly–Sejmik
till 1916
curatus/rector/expositus — Kisielicetoday: Kisielice gm., Iława pov., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.07.16] ⋄ Our Lady the Queen of the World RC church ⋄ Susz/Iławanames of parishes
today: Iława pov., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.08.05], RC parish
c. 1911 – c. 1915
administrator — Bzowotoday: Warlubie gm., Świecie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18] ⋄ St Margaret the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Nowealso: Nowe nad Wisłą
today: Nowe gm., Świecie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.27] RC deanery
vicar — Bzowotoday: Warlubie gm., Świecie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18] ⋄ St Margaret the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Nowealso: Nowe nad Wisłą
today: Nowe gm., Świecie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.27] RC deanery
vicar — Lignowy Szlacheckietoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18] ⋄ St Martin, the Bishop and Confessor and St Margaret the Martyr RC parish ⋄ Gniewtoday: Gniew gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.29] RC deanery
from 1906
vicar — Człuchówtoday: Człuchów gm., Człuchów pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] ⋄ St James the Apostle RC parish
1902 – 1906
student — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.05.06] ⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary
1906 – 1934
membership — Toruńtoday: Toruń city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.20] ⋄ scientific society
others related
in death
LACZKOWSKIClick to display biography Francis Xavier
murder sites
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Tryszczyn: In the vicinity of Tryszczyn (10 km from Bydgoszcz) Germans — as a part of «Intelligenzaktion» aimed at extermination of Polish intelligentsia and ruling classes in Pomerania — murdered from 09.1939 till 10.1939 approx. 900 inhabitants of Bydgoszcz and surrounding villages. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19])
«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 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
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Greater Poland Uprising: Military insurrection of Poles living in Posen Provinz (Eng. Poznań province) launched against German Reich in 1918‑1919 aiming to incorporate lands captured by Prussia during partitions of Poland in XVIII century into Poland, reborn in 1918. Started on 27.12.1918 in Poznań and finished with total Polish victory on 16.02.1919 by a ceasefire in Trier. Many Polish priests took part in the Uprising, both as chaplains of the insurgents units and members and leaders of the Polish agencies and councils set up in the areas covered by the Uprising. In 1939 after German invasion of Poland and start of the II World war those priests were particularly persecuted by the Germans and majority of them were murdered. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.08.14])
sources
personal:
pelplin.diecezja.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], 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:
„Biographical dictionary of priests of the Chełmno diocese ordained in the years 1821‑1920”, Henry Mross, Pelplin, 1995
original images:
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[access: 2017.11.07], www.niedziela.diecezja.torun.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2017.11.07], groby.radaopwim.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.01.16], www.pomorska.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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