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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
KONOPKA
surname
versions/aliases
NOWINA-KONOPKA
forename(s)
Kazimierz Stanisław
function
religious cleric
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
congregation
Society of Jesus (Jesuits - SI)more on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Lesser Poland Province SI (from 1926)
Polish Province SI (1918—26)
Galicia Province SI (till 1918)
Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
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[access: 2014.12.20]
honorary titles
Officer's Cross „Polonia Restituta”more on
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[access: 2019.04.16]
„Cross of Independence”more on
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[access: 2019.02.02]
„Cross of Valour”more on
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[access: 2019.04.16]
date and place of death
26.06.1941
Lvivtoday: Lviv city rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
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details of death
During World War I chaplain of 4th Infantry Regiment at 3rd Brigade (1915‑7), 6th Infantry Regiment (1917) and 3rd Infantry Regiment (1917‑8) of Polish Legions.
In 1918 dean of 2nd Polish Army Corps.
After the battle of Kaniów with Germans (on 11.05.1918) managed to avoid capture.
Sentenced by the Austrians to death.
Went into hiding in Zhytomyr under adopted „Nowina” surname.
During Polish–Russian war of 1920 chaplain of military hospital in Chełm Lubelski.
After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the II World War, after start on 22.09.1939 of Lviv occupation by the Russians ministered to the Lviv prisoners.
After German attack of their erstwhile Russian ally in 06.1941, during Russian genocidal prison massacres, shot dead by a Russian soldiers in the gardens of Jesuit retreat house he run (or murdered in one of Lviv prisons).
cause of death
mass murder
perpetrators
Russians
date and place of birth
10.01.1879
Tarnówtoday: Tarnów city pow., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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religious vows
02.02.1914 (last)
presbyter (holy orders)/
ordination
14.04.1906 (Krakówtoday: Kraków city pow., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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positions held
1938 – 1941
friar {Lvivtoday: Lviv city rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16], monastery, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}, prison chaplain
1933 – 1938
certified teacher {Bunkovychin .Khyriv
today: Khyriv hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.11.09], Scientific and Educational Institute (St Joseph's college), St Joseph Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary monastery „in Khyriv”, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}
1931 – 1933
missionary {(Northern Rhodesia territory)today: Zambia
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1923 – 1930
certified teacher {Bunkovychin .Khyriv
today: Khyriv hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.11.09], Scientific and Educational Institute (St Joseph's college), St Joseph Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary monastery „in Khyriv”, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}, professor of general history and geography
1921 – 1922
director {Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06], St Casimir the Prince Gymnasium, St Casimir the Prince monastery, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}
1920 – 1921
friar {Chełmtoday: Chełm city pow., Lublin voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.08.20], Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary monastery, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}, catechist at a craft school and Teachers' Seminary for Women, and a chaplain at a military hospital
1919 – 1920
professor {Lutsktoday: Lutsk rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17], history of the Polish Church, homiletics, patrology and German, Theological Seminary}
c. 1919
prefect {parish: Olykatoday: Olyka hrom., Lutsk rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17], collegiate parish Holy Trinity; dean.: Dubnotoday: Dubno rai., Rivne obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.27]}
1918 – 1919
professor {Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17], history of the Polish Church, homiletics, patrology and German, Theological Seminary}
1915
certified teacher {Dziedzicetoday: neighborhood in Czechowice–Dziedzice, Czechowice–Dziedzice gm., Bielsko–Biała pow., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.19], Department of Theology, monastery — St Joseph Retreat House, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}, professor of Church history and homiletics
1914 – 1915
friar {Krakówtoday: Kraków city pow., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07], monastery, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}, chaplain of the ophthalmology clinic
1913 – 1914
certified teacher {Krakówtoday: Kraków city pow., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07], college (Lat. Collegium Maximum SS. Cordis Iesu), 26 Kopernik Str., Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}, professor of Church history
1912 – 1913
Third Probation {Ternopiltoday: Ternopil city rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.20], College, Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary monastery, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}
1910 – 1912
certified teacher {Bunkovychin .Khyriv
today: Khyriv hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.11.09], Scientific and Educational Institute (St Joseph's college), St Joseph Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary monastery „in Khyriv”, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}, professor of general history and geography
1906 – 1910
student {Krakówtoday: Kraków city pow., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07], history, Department of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University UJ}
1904 – 1906
student {Krakówtoday: Kraków city pow., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07], theology, college (Lat. Collegium Maximum SS. Cordis Iesu), 26 Kopernik Str., Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}
1902 – 1903
friar {Bunkovychin .Khyriv
today: Khyriv hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.11.09], Scientific and Educational Institute (St Joseph's college), St Joseph Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary monastery „in Khyriv”, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}, student of the last years of gymnasium
1899 – 1902
student {Nowy Sącztoday: Nowy Sącz pow., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01], philosophy, Holy Ghost college, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}
1896 – 1899
friar {Stara Wieśtoday: Brzozów gm., Brzozów pow., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Assumption into Heaven of the Blessed Mary monastery, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}, student of the humanities gymnasium
1894 – 1896
novitiate {Stara Wieśtoday: Brzozów gm., Brzozów pow., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Assumption into Heaven of the Blessed Mary monastery, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}
10.01.1894
accession {Stara Wieśtoday: Brzozów gm., Brzozów pow., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Assumption into Heaven of the Blessed Mary monastery, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}
publicist in many magazines and periodicals, e.g. „General Revie”, „Catholic Voices”, „Naszych Our News”, editor of „Current News from the Galician Province” (1914‑5), „People of God” in Lutsk (1919‑20), author of numerous historical articles, author of „War memoirs of the chaplain of the 2nd Brigade of the Polish Legions” (Kraków, 1993)
others related in death
BAŁUTClick to display biography Anthony (Fr Roman), BANSZELClick to display biography Karol, BUCZYŃSKIClick to display biography Józef, CZEMERYŃSKIClick to display biography Jarosław, KAŹNICAClick to display biography Monika, KNYSZClick to display biography Szczepan, KOWALIKClick to display biography Zenon, MARCHIEWICZClick to display biography Franciszek (Fr Michał), PISKOZUBClick to display biography Julia
murder sites
camps (+ prisoner no)
Lviv (Brygidki): Penal prison, then at 34 Kazimierzowska Str. in Lviv — in the buildings of the former monastery of the Order of St Brigid, in 1784 — after the first partition of Poland and after the dissolution of the religious orders as part of the so—called Josephine dissolutions — converted by the partitioning Austrian authorities into a prison. In 1939‑41, the Russians held there thousands of prisoners, most of them Poles. On c. 26.06.1941, in the face of the German invasion and attack of their erstwhile ally, the Russians, during a panic escape (the left Lviv exactly on 26.06.1941), genocideally murdered several thousand prisoners. In 1941‑4 the prison was run by the Germans and mass murders of Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian civilians took place there. After start of another Russian occupation in 1941 prison in which the executions were carried out on prisoners sentenced to death. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21])
06.1941 massacres (NKVD): After German attack of Russian‑occupied Polish territory and following that of Russia itself, before a panic escape, Russians murdered — in accordance with the genocidal order issued on 24.06.1941 by the Russian interior minister Lawrence Beria to murder all prisoners (formally „sentenced for counter–revolutionary activities', anti–Russian acts', sabotage and diversion, and political prisoners 'in custody'), held in NKVD‑run prisons in Russian occupied Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — c. 40,000‑50,000 prisoners. In addition Russians murdered many thousands of victims arrested after German attack regarding them as „enemies of people” — those victims were not even entered into prisons’ registers. Most of them were murdered in massacres in the prisons themselves, the others during so‑called „death marches” when the prisoners were driven out east. After Russians departure and start of German occupation a number of spontaneous pogroms of Jews took place. Many Jews collaborated with Russians and were regarded as co‑responsible for prison massacres. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19])
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])
Polish-Russian war of 1919—21: 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
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bibliograhical:, „Register of Latin rite Lviv metropolis clergy’s losses in 1939‑45”, Józef Krętosz, Maria Pawłowiczowa, editors, Opole, 2005, „Biographical lexicon of Lviv Roman Catholic Metropoly clergy victims of the II World War 1939‑1945”, Mary Pawłowiczowa (ed.), Fr Joseph Krętosz (ed.), Holy Cross Publishing, Opole, 2007,
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