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Roman Catholic
St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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  • PELLOWSKI Norbert John; source: S. Tylus, „Lexicon of Polish Pallotines 1912-2012”, Ząbki 2013, archives of Christ the King Province in Warsaw, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOPELLOWSKI Norbert John
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religious status

Servant of God

surname

PELLOWSKI

forename(s)

Norbert John (pl. Norbert Jan)

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    Commemorative plague, Theological Seminary church, Ołtarzew
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    Commemorative plaque, Our Lady the Immaculate church, Harmęże
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function

religious cleric

creed

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

congregation

Society of the Catholic Apostolate SACmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

(i.e. Pallottines)

diocese / province

Christ the King province SACmore on
waw.pallotyni.pl
[access: 2019.02.02]

Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.12.20]

date and place
of death

15.03.1942

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

During World War I, under German occupation (partition), participated in clandestine schools run by his parents (learning Polish history, geography and language).

Helped them to edit clandestine Polish magazines (copying it manually).

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of German occupation, during September 1939 campaign commander of anti–aircraft defense unit in Ożarów Mazowiecki.

After start of German occupation chaplain of the Polish clandestine resistance VII „Collar” District of Armed Struggle Union ZWZ (part of Polish Clandestine State), under nom‐de‐guerre „Roman”, in Ożarów.

Editor of clandestine „White Eagle” magazine.

Teacher at clandestine education network at secondary level and at nurses classes (part of Polish Clandestine State).

Participant of sabotage actions against German military motorcycles stored in Ożarów, by injecting destroying chemicals into their engines.

Member of Main Care Council RGO securing support to the poor from Ożarów area.

Arrested by the Germans on 16.05.1941 as part of mass arrests in Pallottines' Higher Theological Seminary in Ołtarzew.

Jailed in Pawiak prison in Warsaw.

On 28.05.1941 transported to KL Auschwitz concentration camp, where perished: in the infectious diseases part of the camp's hospital.

prisoner camp's numbers

16769Click to display source page (KL AuschwitzClick to display the description)

cause of death

extermination: exhaustion, starvation, disease

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

KL AuschwitzClick to display the description, Regierungsbezirk KattowitzClick to display the description, PawiakClick to display the description, 05.1941 arrests (Pallotines)Click to display the description, GeneralgouvernementClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

27.01.1903

Pszczółkitoday: Pszczółki gm., Gdańsk pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]

religious vows

24.09.1927 (temporary)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

19.07.1931 (Rometoday: Rome prov., Lazio reg., Italy
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
)

positions held

1933 – 1941

prefect — Ołtarzewtoday: Ożarów Mazowiecki gm., Warsaw‐west pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.18]
⋄ primary schools

1933 – 1941

prefect — Ożarów Mazowieckitoday: Ożarów Mazowiecki gm., Warsaw‐west pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ primary schools

1940 – 1941

treasury officer / procurator — Ołtarzewtoday: Ożarów Mazowiecki gm., Warsaw‐west pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.18]
⋄ Society's house, Pallottines SAC

1939 – 1940

priest — Huszczatoday: Łomazy gm., Biała Podlaska pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.28]
⋄ Our Lady of Sorrows RC parish ⋄ Wisznicetoday: Wisznice gm., Biała Podlaska pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.06.13]
RC deanery

till 1939

treasury officer / procurator — Ołtarzewtoday: Ożarów Mazowiecki gm., Warsaw‐west pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.18]
⋄ Society's house, Pallottines SAC

from 1933

friar — Ołtarzewtoday: Ożarów Mazowiecki gm., Warsaw‐west pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.18]
⋄ Society's house, Pallottines SAC — house counselor

1931 – 1932

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

1928 – 1931

student — Rometoday: Rome prov., Lazio reg., Italy
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ theology, „Gregorianum[i.e. Lat. Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana (Eng. Pontifical Gregorian University)]

c. 1927 – 1928

student — Ołtarzewtoday: Ożarów Mazowiecki gm., Warsaw‐west pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.18]
⋄ philosophy, Theological Seminary, Pallottines SAC

1926 – c. 1927

novitiate — Sucharytoday: Nakło nad Notecią gm., Nakło nad Notecią pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.08.28]
⋄ philosophy, Theological Seminary, Pallottines SAC — also: philosophy student

1925 – 1926

novitiate — Klecza Dolnatoday: Wadowice gm., Wadowice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Society's house („On the Mound”), Pallottines SAC — robed on 07.10.1925

15.09.1924

accession — Klecza Dolnatoday: Wadowice gm., Wadowice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Society's house („On the Mound”), Pallottines SAC

c. 1923 – c. 1924

teacher — elementary school

till c. 1923

student — Teachers' Seminary

others related
in death

BOCHENEKClick to display biography Peter, JANKOWSKIClick to display biography Joseph, KILIANClick to display biography Francis Borgia, KOWALSKIClick to display biography Bernard, MAŁACZEKClick to display biography Stanislav, REGULSKIClick to display biography Bronislav, SADOWSKIClick to display biography Stanislav, SZAMBELAŃCZYKClick to display biography John, WĄSIKClick to display biography John

sites and events
descriptions

KL Auschwitz: German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL and Germ. Vernichtungslager (Eng. extermination camp) VL Auschwitz 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 Germ. Vernichtungslager (Eng. extermination camp) VL 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]
)

Regierungsbezirk Kattowitz: After the Polish defeat in the 09.1939 campaign, which was the result of the Ribbentrop‐Molotov Pact and constituted the first stage of World War II, and the beginning of German occupation in part of Poland (in the other, eastern part of Poland, the Russian occupation began), the Germans divided the occupied Polish territory into five main regions (and a few smaller). The largest one was transformed into Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate), intended exclusively for Poles and Jews and constituting part of the so‐called Germ. Großdeutschland (Eng. Greater Germany). From two separate new provinces were created. The two remaining were incorporated into existing German provinces. One of those was Polish Upper Silesia, which on 08.09.1939, by decree of the German leader Adolf Hitler (formally came into force on 26.10.1939), was incorporated into Germany as the Germ. Regierungsbezirk Kattowitz (Eng. Katowice Regency) and became part of the Germ. Provinz Schlesien (Eng. Province of Silesia) based in Wrocław. On 01.04.1940, the Germ. Regierungsbezirk Kattowitz was enlarged by several pre‐war German counties, and on 18.01.1941, a new German province was created, the Germ. Provinz Oberschlesien (Eng. Province of Upper Silesia), which, apart from the Germ. Regierungsbezirk Kattowitz, also included the Opole region. From 26.10.1939, when the regency was established, the law of the German state was in force there, the same as in Berlin. The main axis of the policy of the new regency, the territory of which the Germans recognized as the Germ. „Ursprünglich Deutsche” (Eng. „natively German”), despite the fact only 6% of its pre–war Polish part were Germans, was Germ. „Entpolonisierung” (Eng. „Depolonisation”), i.e. forced Germanization. The main mechanism was the introduction of the Germ. Deutsche Volksliste DVL, a German nationality list that was supposed to specify the national affiliation of the inhabitants of the region. The largest group marked in the compulsory registrations was Group 3, people who identified themselves as „Silesians” (in 1943 about 41%), and people remaining outside the DVL (about 36%). The latter group was intended to be deported to the Germ. Generalgouvernement (which did not happen en masse because German industry needed slave labor). Group 3, considered by the Germans as capable of Germanization, was subject to certain legal restrictions, and was subject to, among others, to conscription into the German Wehrmacht army. Children could only learn in German. A policy of terror was pursued against the Polish population. There was a special police court, controlled by the Germ. Geheime Staatspolizei (Eng. Secret State Police), i.e. the Gestapo, before which c. 4,000‐5,000 people were detained. For the years 1942‐1945 over 2,000 of them were verified, of which 1,890 were sentenced to death, including 286 in public executions. Thousands of people were murdered during the so‐called «Intelligenzaktion Schlesien», including 300‐650 Polish teachers and c. 61 Polish Catholic priests. The regency hosted a German concentration and extermination camp KL Auschwitz, where the Germans imprisoned c. 1,100,000 Jews (murdering c.1,000,000, i.e. c. 90% of them) and c. 140,000 Poles (murdering c. 70,000, i.e. c. 50% of them). After the end of hostilities of World War II, the overseer of this province, the Germ. Reichsstatthalter (Eng. Reich Governor) and the Germ. Gauleiter (Eng. district head) of the German National Socialist Party, Fritz Brecht, committed suicide. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.06.24]
)

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]
)

05.1941 arrests (Pallotines): Suspecting Pallotine brothers from Ołtarzew n. Warsaw of collaboration with Polish clandestine resistance movement Armed Struggle Union ZWZ (future Home Army AK, part of Polish Clandestine State) Germans arrested most of them on 16, 23 and 27.05.1941. They were jailed in Pawiak prison in Warsaw and on 28.05.1941 transported to KL Auschwitz concentration camp where most of them perished. (more on: www.sp2ozarowmaz.szkolnastrona.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2017.11.07]
)

Generalgouvernement: After the Polish defeat in the 09.1939 campaign, which was the result of the Ribbentrop‐Molotov Pact and constituted the first stage of World War II, and the beginning of German occupation in part of Poland (in the other, eastern part of Poland, the Russian occupation began), the Germans divided the occupied Polish territory into five main regions. In two of them new German provinces were created, two other were incorporated into other provinces. However, the fifth part was treated separately, and in a political sense it was supposed to recreate the German idea from 1915 (during World War I, after the defeat of the Russians in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915) of creating a Polish enclave within Germany. Illegal in the sense of international law, i.e. Hague Convention, and public law, managed by the Germans according to separate laws — especially established for the Polish Germ. Untermenschen (Eng. subhumans) — till the Russian offensive in 1945 it constituted the Germ. Großdeutschland (Eng. Greater Germany). Till 31.07.1940 formally called Germ. Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete (Eng. General Government for the occupied Polish lands) — later simply Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate), as in the years 1915‐1918. From 07.1941, i.e. after the German attack on 22.06.1941 against the erstwhile ally, the Russians, it also included the Galicia district, i.e. the Polish pre‐war south‐eastern voivodeships. A special criminal law was enacted and applied to Poles and Jews, allowing for the arbitrary administration of the death penalty regardless of the age of the „perpetrator”, and sanctioning the use of collective responsibility. After the end of the military conflict of the World War UU, the government of the Germ. Generalgouvernement was recognized as a criminal organization, and its leader, governor Hans Frank, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and executed. (more on: pl.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 Stanislav 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
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

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pallotyni.euClick to attempt to display webpage
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