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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

OLSZAK

forename(s)

Joseph (pl. Józef)

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    Commemorative plaque for priests and seminarians from Łomża diocese who perished in 1939-45, cathedral, Łomża
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    Commemorative plaque for priests and seminarians from Łomża diocese who perished in 1939-45, cathedral, Łomża
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    Commemorative plaque, Our Lady the Immaculate church, Harmęże
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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Łomża diocesemore on
www.kuria.lomza.pl
[access: 2012.11.23]

Sejny diocesemore on
www.catholic-hierarchy.org
[access: 2021.12.19]

date and place
of death

29.03.1942

KL Auschwitzconcentration camp
today: Oświęcim, Oświęcim gm., Oświęcim pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.09]

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 15.01.1940 for expressing anti‑German sentiments.

Jailed in Ostrołęka court prison.

On 10.04.1940 in Ciechanów sentenced by a German summary court Sondergericht to 1.5 years in prison— for an offense against the act on treason against the German Reich (the Germans made the German–occupied Ciechanów as the capital of the Germ. Regierungsbezirk Zichenau, i.e. Ciechanów Regency, directly incorporated into the Germ Provinz Ostpreußen, i.e. the province of East Prussia).

Jailed in Płock prison.

Not released after completion of the sentence. The German political police Gestapo in Ciechanów asked the Germ. Reichssicherheitshauptamt RSHA (Eng. Reich Main Security Office) for the Germ. „Schutzhaft bis auf weiteres” (Eng. „protective arrest until further notice”), to which the head of the RSHA, SS‑Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich replied on 05.11.1941: Germ. „auf Grund seiner fanatischen Einstellung zum Polentum zu erwarten steht, dass er bei vorzeitiger Freilassung nach Verbüssung sich erneut Staatsabträglich verhalten wird” (Eng. „based on his fanatical attitude towards Polishness, it should be expected that in the event of premature release after after serving his sentence, he will again have harmful attitudes towards the state”).

As a result on 23.12.1941 transported to KL Auschwitz concentration camp where soon perished. Soon, in 01.1942, marked in the camp files as suffering from the Germ „pneumonia”. The death certificate, as always carefully issued by the Germans, stated the cause of death as Germ. „Myocardinsuffizienz” (Eng. „heart muscle failure”) — one of the standard phrases used by the German genocidaires in such cases.

cause of death

extermination: exhaustion and starvation

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

14.11.1896

Czerwonetoday: Kolno gm., Kolno pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

01.02.1920

positions held

1938 – 1940

parish priest — Kuzietoday: Zbójna gm., Łomża pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.04.17]
⋄ Our Lady of the Rosary RC parish ⋄ Kolnotoday: Kolno urban gm., Kolno pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1931 – 1938

parish priest — Burzyntoday: Jedwabne gm., Łomża pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Jedwabnetoday: Jedwabne gm., Łomża pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.05.23]
RC deanery

1925 – 1931

parish priest — Złotoriatoday: Choroszcz gm., Białystok pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St Joseph RC parish ⋄ Sokołytoday: Sokoły gm., Wysokie Mazowieckie pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
RC deanery

till 1925

vicar — Augustówtoday: Augustów gm., Augustów pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
⋄ Sacred Heart of Jesus RC parish ⋄ Augustówtoday: Augustów gm., Augustów pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
RC deanery

c. 1924

vicar — Zambrówtoday: Zambrów urban gm., Zambrów pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Śniadowotoday: Śniadowo gm., Łomża pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
RC deanery

vicar — Rajgródtoday: Rajgród gm., Grajewo pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Szczuczyntoday: Szczuczyn gm., Grajewo pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
RC deanery

c. 1921 – c. 1922

vicar — Bargłów Kościelnytoday: Bargłów Kościelny gm., Augustów pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.10]
⋄ Exaltation of the Holy Cross RC parish ⋄ Augustówtoday: Augustów gm., Augustów pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
RC deanery

1920 – 1921

vicar — Łapytoday: Łapy gm., Białystok pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Sokołytoday: Sokoły gm., Wysokie Mazowieckie pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
RC deanery

1920

vicar — Kobylintoday: Kobylin–Borzymy, Kobylin–Borzymy gm., Wysokie Mazowieckie pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Sokołytoday: Sokoły gm., Wysokie Mazowieckie pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
RC deanery

1919 – 1920

student — Łomżatoday: Łomża city pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

1918 – 1919

student — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary

1915 – 1918

student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary

1914 – 1915

student — Sejnytoday: Sejny urban gm., Sejny pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

KL Auschwitz (prisoner no: 25011Click to display biography): German KL Auschwitz concentration camp (Germ. Konzentrationslager) and death camp (Germ. Vernichtungslager) camp was set up by Germans around 27.01.1940 n. Oświęcim, on the German territory (initially in Germ. Provinz Schlesien — Silesia Province; and from 1941 Germ. Provinz Oberschlesien — Upper Silesia Province). Initially mainly Poles were interned. From 1942 it became the centre for holocaust of European Jews. Part of the KL Auschwitz concentration camps’ complex was death camp (Germ. Vernichtungslager) KL Auschwitz II Birkenau, located not far away from the main camp. There Germans murder possibly in excess of million people, mainly Jews, in gas chambers. Altogether In excess of 400 priests and religious went through the KL Auschwitz, approx. 40% of which were murdered (mainly Poles). (more on: en.auschwitz.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
, www.meczennicy.pelplin.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.07.06]
)

Płock: In its present location, the prison in Płock was built in 1803 by the Prussians (after the Third Partition of Poland, Płock was initially part of the Prussia). From 1815, it functioned as a Russian prison (among others, the November insurgents were detained there). During World War II, during the German occupation — Płock found itself in the so‑called Germ. Regierungsbezirk Zichenau (Eng. Ciechanów regency), part of the Germ. Provinz Ostpreußen (Eng. East Prussia province) — it was managed by the Germans. The jail ran by the German political police Gestapo was located in a different place — initially in the basement of the present town hall in Płock. From 1941 it was transferred — as an investigative prison — to a building at 1st of May Str., built in 1905. Many of the Polish prisoners were next transported to German concentration camps, mainly KL Soldau, where they perished. After the German defeat, this building was taken over by the Russians, and then by the Polish Commie–Nazis in the service of the Russian KGB, and treacherous murders of former soldiers of the Polish Clandestine State were prob. carried out there. In 1991, the main prison was visited by Pope St John Paul II, who said to the inmates: „You are condemned, but not doomed”.

«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
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[access: 2023.05.28]
)

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