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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
NOWAK
forename(s)
Edmund
function
diocesan priest
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Włocławek diocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
Włocławek ie. Kalisz diocese
Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
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[access: 2014.12.20]
academic distinctions
Doctor of History
Philosopy MA
honorary titles
Officer's Cross „Polonia Restituta”more on
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[access: 2019.04.16]
Cross of Valor of the former Volunteer Allied Army of General Stanislaus Bułak-Bałachowicz
Gold „Cross of Merit”more on
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[access: 2019.04.16]
Medal „Poland To Its Defender”
Ten Years of Independence Medalmore on
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[access: 2019.10.13]
date and place
of death
05.04.1940
Tvertoday: Tver oblast, Russia
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[access: 2021.10.09]
alt. dates and places
of death
07.04.1940
details of death
During Polish–Russian war of 1920 chaplain–volunteer of the 4th Uhlans Cavarly Regiment (from 01.06.1919) fighting on the northern front.
During German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II head of chaplaincy at „Lublin” Army of the Polish Forces (from mobilization in 08.1939).
Prob. till 14.09.1939 remained in Lublin, together with Regional Corps DOK no II HQ, and then left — together with a DOK nr II commander, Gen. Mieczyslav Smorawiński — in accordance with orders towards Kowel, and following that to Włodzimierz Wołyński.
When after 17.09.1939 Russian invading troops reached Włodzimierz Wołyński prob. intended — as a result of an accord with Russians negotiated by Gen. Smorawiński — to move with his troops west, towards Bug river.
On 20.09.1939 however, when leaving Włodzimierz Wołyński apprehended with Polish troops by Russians and „interned”.
Jailed in Kozielsk concentration camp (or Starobielsk camp).
On Christmas Eve of 24.12.1939 moved prob. to Butyrki prison in Moscow and on 29.12.1939 to Ostaszków concentration camp.
From there (NKWD list no 05/3 of 1940, position 71, investigation no 1331) transported to Twer execution site and brutally murdered.
Gen. Smorawiński was murdered by the Russians in Katyń forest.
cause of death
mass murder
perpetrators
Russians
date and place
of birth
03.12.1891
Półwiosek Starytoday: Ślesin gm., Konin pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth
02.12.1891
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
22.03.1915 (Włocławek cathedral)
positions held
1939
dean {Command of the Corps District DOK No. II Lublin, Polish Army}
from 19.03.1939
military pastor {Polish Army}, in lieutenant colonel rank; in 11.2007 posthumously promoted to colonel rank
1934 – 1939
administrator {parish: Lublintoday: Lublin city pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.08.20], Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Command of the Corps District DOK No. II Lublin, Polish Army}
till 1938
PhD student {Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16], [John Casimir University — clandestine, underground /1941‑1944/, Ivan Franko University /1940‑1941/, John Casimir University /1919‑1939/, Franciscan University /1817‑1918/]}
from 06.1934
senior chaplain {Polish Army}, in major rank with seniority from 01.01.1919
till c. 1934
administrator {parish: Naujoji Vilniatoday: district of Vilnius, Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2021.12.18], military St Stanislaus Kostka the Confessor; Command of the Corps District DOK No. III Grodno, Polish Army}
till c. 1930
student {Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06], history, Vilnius University (since 1945), Lithuanian (1939‑40), Stephen Batory University (1919‑39)}, postgraduate specialised studies crowned with Philosophy Master's degree
c. 1923 – 1924
chaplain {Zolochivtoday: Zolochiv urban hrom., Zolochiv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.12.19], garrison, Command of the Corps District DOKNo. VI Lviv, Polish Army}
chaplain {Vawkavysktoday: Vawkavysk dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.06], Command of the Corps District DOK No. III Grodno, Polish Army}
from 1921
chaplain {Grodnotoday: Grodno dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2023.01.18], Command of the Corps District DOK No. III Grodno, Polish Army}
from 05.1920
chaplain {Polish Army}, commisioned chaplain in captain rank with seniority
from 01.06.1919
chaplain {Polish Army}, non–commisioned (reserve) chaplain
1918 – 1920
vicar {parish: Brzeźnioform.: also Brzeźno
today: Brzeźnio gm., Sieradz pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.01], St Giles; dean.: Złoczewtoday: Złoczew gm., Sieradz pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.12.16]}
1917 – 1918
vicar {parish: Działoszyntoday: Działoszyn gm., Pajęczno pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.12.11], St Mary Magdalene; dean.: Wieluń / Praszkadeanery names/seats
today: Poland}
1916 – 1917
vicar {parish: Dłutówtoday: Dłutów gm., Pabianice pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.01], St Three Kings; dean.: Łasktoday: Łask gm., Łask pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.01]}
1916
vicar {parish: Włocławektoday: Włocławek city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], St John the Baptist; dean.: Włocławektoday: Włocławek city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]; parish}, prefect
1915
vicar {parish: Służewotoday: Aleksandrów Kujawski gm., Aleksandrów Kujawski pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.12.16], St John the Baptist; church: Aleksandrów Kujawskitoday: Aleksandrów Kujawski gm., Aleksandrów Kujawski pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.12.16], Transfiguration of the Lord; dean.: Nieszawatoday: Nieszawa gm., Aleksandrów Kujawski pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.05]}, also: prefect
1909 – 1915
student {Włocławektoday: Włocławek city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary}
{author of historical works}, incl. monumental „Features of the history of military pastoral care in Poland in the years 968‑1831” (Vilnius 1932)
others related
in death
DUBIELClick to display biography Alexander, JANASClick to display biography Mieczyslav, KACPRZAKClick to display biography Joseph, MARCOŃClick to display biography Mieczyslav, MASŁOŃClick to display biography Vladislav, MIKUCZEWSKIClick to display biography Joseph, MIODUSZEWSKIClick to display biography John, OCHABClick to display biography Vladimir, PASZKOClick to display biography Richard, ROMANOWSKIClick to display biography Victor, SKORELClick to display biography Joseph, SZWEDClick to display biography Bronislaus, WOJTYNIAKClick to display biography Ceslaus, ZAKRZEWSKIClick to display biography Francis
murder sites
camp
(+ prisoner no)
Tver: On 04.04–22.05.1940 Russians executed in Tver c. 6,314 Polish prisoners of war (POW) kept in Ostaszków concentration camp. The prisoners were brought to the NKVD building (now Tver Medical Institute at Sovetskaya Str., formerly classical gymnasium), identified, chained, and then murdered by a shot from a German Walther P38 pistol into the back of the head. The bodies where next dumped in mass graves in ditches in the Miednoje forest. This was a fulfillment of Russian Commie–Nazi government decision – Political Bureau of the Russian Commie–Nazi party of 05.03.1940 – to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and individuals held in Russian POW camps following Ribbentrop–Molotov German–Russian accord and annexation of half of Poland into Russia, confirmed by the order No.00350 of the head of the NKVD, Mr Lavrentyi Beria, on the "discharge of NKVD prisons" in Ukraine and Belarus. There are indications – i.e. 4 so–called "NKVD–Gestapo Methodical Conferences" of 1939–40: in Brześć on Bug, Przemyśl, Zakopane and Cracow – of close collaboration between Germans and Russians in realization of plans of total extermination of Polish nation, its elites in particular – decision that prob. was confirmed during meeting of socialist leaders of Germany: Mr Heinrich Himmler, and Russia: Mr Lavrentyi Beria, in another German leader's hunting lodge: Mr Hermann Göring, in Rominty in Romincka Forest in East Prussia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09])
Katyń: From 03.04.1940 till 12.05.1940 Russians in a planned genocide executed in Katyń approx. 4,400 Polish prisoners of war (POW) kept in Kozielsk concentration camp. This was a fulfillment of Russian Commie–Nazi government decision – Political Bureau of the Russian Commie–Nazi party of 05.03.1940 – to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and individuals held in Russian POW camps following Ribbentrop–Molotov German–Russian accord and annexation of half of Poland into Russia, confirmed by the order No.00350 of the head of the NKVD, Mr Lavrentyi Beria, on the "discharge of NKVD prisons" in Ukraine and Belarus. There are indications – i.e. 4 so–called "NKVD–Gestapo Methodical Conferences" of 1939–40: in Brześć on Bug, Przemyśl, Zakopane and Cracow – of close collaboration between Germans and Russians in realization of plans of total extermination of Polish nation, its elites in particular – decision that prob. was confirmed during meeting of socialist leaders of Germany: Mr Heinrich Himmler, and Russia: Mr Lavrentyi Beria, in another German leader's hunting lodge: Mr Hermann Göring, in Rominty in Romincka Forest in East Prussia. Earlier at the same spot Russians murdered thousands of victims in 1937. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21])
Ostaszków (prisoner no: 1331): In 1939‑40 in Ostaszków — in practice on Seliger lake Stołobnyj and Swietlica islands, c. 11 km from Ostaszków, in a former Orthodox monastery, Niłowo–Stołobieńska Hermitage — Russians set a concentration camp for Poles arrested after 1939 invasion of Poland. In 04.1940 6,570 were kept there out of which approx. 6,300 were subsequently — as the fulfillment of Russian government decision to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and prisoners of war camps (Polish holocaust) — executed in Twer. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23])
Moscow (Butyrki): Harsh transit and interrogation prison in Moscow — for political prisoners — where Russians held and murdered thousands of Poles. Founded prob. in XVII century. In XIX century many Polish insurgents (Polish uprisings of 1831 and 1863) were held there. During Communist regime a place of internment for political prisoners prior to a transfer to Russian slave labour complex Gulag. During the Great Purge c. 20,000 inmates were held there at any time (c. 170 in every cell). Thousands were murdered. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.05.01])
Starobielsk: In 1939‑41 in Starobielsk Russians set a concentration camp for Poles arrested after 1939 invasion of Poland. In 04.1940 approx. 3,800 were kept there and subsequently— as the fulfillment of Russian government decision to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and prisoners of war camps (Polish holocaust) — were executed in Twer. Used as a concentration camp for Poles later as well. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23])
Kozielsk: In 1939‑40 in Kozielsk Russians set a concentration camp for Poles arrested after 1939 invasion of Poland. In 04.1940 approx. 4,300 were kept there and subsequently— as the fulfillment of Russian government decision to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and prisoners of war camps (Polish holocaust) — were executed in Katyń. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23])
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])
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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sources
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bibliograhical:, „Victims of German crime among Włocławek diocese clergy”, Fr Stanislau Librowski, „Włocławek Diocese Chronicle”, 07‑08.1947,
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