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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

MICHALSKI

forename(s)

William Vincent (pl. Wilhelm Wincenty)

function

religious cleric

creed

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

congregation

Congregation of the Mission CMmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

(i.e. Vincentians, Lazarists)

academic distinctions

Doctor of Theology

date and place
of death

17.10.1943

Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]

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 03.10.1943 together with a group of priests from Holy Cross church in Warsaw.

Jailed in Pawiak prison.

Released after a fortnight.

Perished during German occupation in unknown circumstances — prob. from a return of psychiatric condition (Cyclothymia disorder).

alt. details of death

According to Congregation's sources „perished, was murdered or died as a result of occupants' repressions and deterioration of health caused by the war

cause of death

disease

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

03.04.1879

Siemianowice Śląskieform.: Huta Laura – Siemianowice
today: Siemianowice Śląskie city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]

religious vows

28.11.1898 (last)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

05.07.1903

positions held

1939 – 1943

resident — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Vincentians CM ⋄ Holy Cross RC parish ⋄ Warsaw–in–urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

1919 – 1939

full professor — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Old Testament of the Holy Bible, Department of Catholic Theology, [University of Warsaw (from 1945) / clandestine University (1939‑1945) / Joseph Piłsudski University (1935‑1939) / University of Warsaw (1915‑1935) / Imperial University of Warsaw (1870‑1915)] — also: active deputy rector of the Theological Boarding House by the Holy Cross church

1936 – 1937

president — Polish Orientalist Society

from 1922

head/manager — Catholic Studies Club — also: founder

from 1922

head/manager — Union of Christ Association — also: founder

membership — St John Cantius' Association of Theological Institutes

1927 – 1928

dean — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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⋄ Department of Catholic Theology, [University of Warsaw (from 1945) / clandestine University (1939‑1945) / Joseph Piłsudski University (1935‑1939) / University of Warsaw (1915‑1935) / Imperial University of Warsaw (1870‑1915)]

1927 – 1931

rector — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Theological Boarding House by the Holy Cross church, Vincentians CM

from 1923

membership — Orientalist Section, Warsaw Scientific Society

1922 – 1923

dean — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Department of Catholic Theology, [University of Warsaw (from 1945) / clandestine University (1939‑1945) / Joseph Piłsudski University (1935‑1939) / University of Warsaw (1915‑1935) / Imperial University of Warsaw (1870‑1915)]

1920 – 1921

membership — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Senate, [University of Warsaw (from 1945) / clandestine University (1939‑1945) / Joseph Piłsudski University (1935‑1939) / University of Warsaw (1915‑1935) / Imperial University of Warsaw (1870‑1915)] — faculty delegate

1918 – 1921

lecturer — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Old Testament, Metropolitan Theological Seminary

1918 – 1919

rector — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Theological Boarding House by the Holy Cross church, Vincentians CM — first rector

1908 – 1917

professor — KrakówStradom, part of Stare Miasto I District
form.: village
today: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ Theological Institute ITKM, 4 Stradomska Str. (Stradom), Vincentians CM — lecturer in biblical science; also director of clerics (till 1911), prefect of studies, curator of the student magazine „Meteor

c. 1908

student — Jerusalemtoday: Jerusalem dist., Israel
more on
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[access: 2022.09.31]
⋄ French Biblical and Archeological School (Lat. École Biblique et Archéologique Française)

1903 – 1907

PhD student — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ Department of Theology, Jagiellonian University UJ — PhD thesis „Hosius and the Reformation in Poland in 1551‑1558 on the basis of his own correspondence not yet published”, public defense on 10.07.1907; also: leading exercises in Hebrew, biblical history, geography and introduction to the Old Testament

1900 – 1903

student — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ Private Philosphy and Theology Study /till 1901 at 17‑19 St Philip Str. (Kleparz), from 1901 at 4 Stradomska Str. (Stradom)/, Vincentians CM

1896 – 1900

friar — KrakówNowa Wieś Narodowa, part of Krowodrza V district
today: Nowa Wieś Narodowa, Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ Congregation's house („New Village”, 37 Misjonarska Str.), Vincentians CM — student at Minor Theological Seminary (i.e. minor gymnasium); also : extern at St Anne gymnasium

from 25.11.1896

friar — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ Vincentians CM

author — „Ancient biblical history” (1912), „Passover and the Last Supper” (1914‑1916)

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

Pawiak: Investigative prison in Warsaw, built by the Russian occupiers of Poland in 1830‑1835. During the Poland partition's period, a Russian investigative prison, both criminal and political. During World War II and the German occupation, the largest German prison in the General Government. Initially, it was subordinate to the Justice Department of the General Governorate, and from 03.1940 Germ. Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienst (Eng. Security Police and Security Service) of the Warsaw District — in particular the German Secret Political Police Gestapo. c. 3,000 prisoners were kept in Pawiak permanently, of which about 2,200 in the men's unit and c. 800 in the women's unit (the so‑called Serbia) — with a „capacity” of c. 1,000 prisoners. In total, in the years 1939‑1944, c. 100,000 Poles passed through the prison, of which c. 37,000 were murdered in executions — from 10.1943 Pawiak prisoners were murdered in open executions on the streets of Warsaw (sometimes several times a day) — during interrogations, in cells or in a prison „hospital”, and c. 60,000 were taken in 95 transports to concentration camps (mainly KL Auischwitz), other places of isolation or to forced labor. The prison Germans demolished during the Warsaw Uprising in 08‑10.1944. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.08.17]
)

General Governorate: A separate administrative territorial region set up by the Germans in 1939 after defeat of Poland, which included German‑occupied part of Polish territory that was not directly incorporate into German state. Created as the result of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, in a political sense, was to recreate the German idea of 1915 (after the defeat of the Russians in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915 during World War I) of establishing a Polish enclave within Germany (also called the General Governorate at that time). It was run by the Germans till 1945 and final Russian offensive, and was a part of so–called Big Germany — Grossdeutschland. Till 31.07.1940 formally known as Germ. Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete (Eng. General Governorate for occupied Polish territories) — later as simply niem. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate). From 07.1941 expanded to include district Galicia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]
)

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
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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
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

sources

personal:
misjonarze.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.02.09]
, www.krzyz.siemianowice.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.02.09]
, www.straty.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.04.16]
, silesia.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]

bibliographical:
Catalogue des Maisons et du Personnel de la Congregation de la MissionClick to display biography
original images:
bc.upjp2.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.09.31]
, audiovis.nac.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]
, naszaprzeszlosc.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]
, bc.upjp2.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.09.31]
, naszaprzeszlosc.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]

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