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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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surname

PIETKIEWICZ

forename(s)

Victor (pl. Wiktor)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Włocławek diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Lutsk‐Zhytomyr diocese (aeque principaliter)more on
www.catholic-hierarchy.org
[access: 2021.12.19]

Mogilev archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.06.23]

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

honorary titles

Papal Cross „Pro Fide et Ecclesia in Russo merito

date and place
of death

01.11.1939

Piotrków Kujawskitoday: Piotrków Kujawski gm., Radziejów pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.16]

alt. dates and places
of death

30‑31.10.1939 (at night)

details of death

After the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, went into hiding — as a chaplain of the tsarist Russian army — in Saint Petersburg, avoiding — according to his own words — execution by the Bolshevik authorities in Jamburg, where he served as a parish priest.

Again threatened with execution in 05–11.1919, during the offensive of the post–imperial troops (so‐called Whites) of the North–Western Army of General Yudenich on Sankt Petersburg.

In 1920 left Sankt Petersburg region and went to Kiev with the intention of returning to Poland.

But the Polish troops were no longer there — their retreat from Ukraine during the Polish–Russian war of 1919‐1921 had already begun, and started his ministry in local Ukrainian parishes instead.

In 1922 arrested by the Russians.

Sentenced to a year in prison — ostensibly for helping Poles and prob. for falsification of the certificate of Polish nationality.

Released after four months.

On 21.12.1922, avoided arrest and went into hiding again.

Left Ukraine and ministered, inter alia, in Samara and Tver.

Finally, on 22.02.1925, left for Poland, thanks to the Polish Mission (embassy) in Moscow — possibly exchanged for Russian spies.

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of German occupation, arrested on 24.10.1939 by the Germans, together with a number of priests from parishes near Piotrków Kujawski.

Held and tortured in a makeshift detention center set up by the Germans in the Catholic House in Piotrków Kujawski.

From there as driven to the execution site and murdered along with 7 priests and 14 civilians.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

Piotrków KujawskiClick to display the description, «Intelligenzaktion»Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description, Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

03.01.1870

Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06]

alt. dates and places
of birth

30.01.1870

Reveltoday: Tallinn, Harju cou., Estonia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

20.02.1893 (Theological Academy's chapel in Sankt Petersburgmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.13]
)

positions held

1938 – 1939

administrator — Mąkoszyntoday: Wierzbinek gm., Konin pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.11]
⋄ St James the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Izbica Kujawskatoday: Izbica Kujawska gm., Włocławek pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.16]
RC deanery

1937 – 1938

administrator — Wągłczewtoday: Wróblew gm., Sieradz pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.01]
⋄ St Clement, the Pope and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Sieradztoday: Sieradz urban gm., Sieradz pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.05]
RC deanery

1935 – 1937

administrator — Świnice Warckietoday: Świnice Warckie gm., Łęczyca pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Casimir RC parish ⋄ Uniejówtoday: Uniejów gm., Poddębice pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1928 – 1935

parish priest — Wistkatoday: Wistka Szlachecka, Włocławek gm., Włocławek pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.16]
⋄ St Bartholomew the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Włocławektoday: Włocławek city pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1925 – 1928

parish priest — Lubomintoday: Boniewo gm., Włocławek pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Brześć Kujawskitoday: Brześć Kujawski gm., Włocławek pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.16]
RC deanery

administrator — Tvertoday: Tver oblast, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Transfiguration of the Lord RC parish ⋄ Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery — acting („ad interim”)

dean — Samaratoday: Samara oblast, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.04.12]
RC deanery — acting („ad interim”)

dean — Smilatoday: Smila urban hrom., Cherkasy rai., Cherkasy, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Zvenyhorodkatoday: Zvenyhorodka urban hrom., Zvenyhorodka rai., Cherkasy, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
RC deanery — acting („ad interim”)

administrator — Toporyshchetoday: Khoroshiv hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ St Tekla the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Ovruchtoday: Ovruch urban hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery — acting („ad interim”)

administrator — Novohrad‐Volynskyitoday: Zviahel, Zviahel urban hrom., Zviahel rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
⋄ Exaltation of the Holy Cross RC parish ⋄ Rivnetoday: Rivne urban hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery — acting („ad interim”)

administrator — Malyntoday: Malyn urban hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.07]
⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Radomyshltoday: Radomyshl urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
RC deanery — acting („ad interim”)

1920 – 1922

administrator — Buchkytoday: Malyn urban hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
ru.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
Radomyshltoday: Radomyshl urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
RC deanery — acting („ad interim”)

1920 – 1922

administrator — Horbulivtoday: Cherniakhiv hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Radomyshltoday: Radomyshl urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
RC deanery — acting („ad interim”)

c. 1917

administrator — Yamburgtoday: Kingisiepp, Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.05.23]
⋄ St John of Nepomuk the Martyr RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

1897 – 1917

chaplain — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ Russian Imperial Guard and the Sankt Petersburg Military District, Imperial Russian Army — also: builder of four new wooden chapels and three brick churches in Peterhof, Luga, Walk (today: Valka) in Latvia and Valga in Estonii, and founder of the church in Ligovo

priest — Ligovotoday: Ulitsky okruh, Krasnoselsky District in Sankt Petersburg, Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.05.23]
⋄ Our Lady of Częstochowa RC church ⋄ Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

priest — Kronstadttoday: part of Sankt Petersburg, Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

prefect — Kronstadttoday: part of Sankt Petersburg, Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ St Peter the Great Naval Cadet Corps, Imperial Russian Army — also: prefect of the 5 gymnasiums, 2 real schools and the commercial school in Saint Petersburg (over 15 years)

priest — Terijokitoday: Zelenogorsk, Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.05.23]
⋄ Sacred Heart of Jesus RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburg Extra Urbemdeanery name
today: Saint Petersburg city, Russia

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

administrator — Vyborgtoday: Vyborg reg., Leningrad oblast, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.02.15]
⋄ St Jack the Confessor RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburg Extra Urbemdeanery name
today: Saint Petersburg city, Russia

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

1896 – c. 1897

vicar — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

administrator — Helsinkitoday: Uusimaa reg., Finland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.05.23]
⋄ St Henry the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburg Extra Urbemdeanery name
today: Saint Petersburg city, Russia

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

vicar — Helsinkitoday: Uusimaa reg., Finland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.05.23]
⋄ St Henry the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburg Extra Urbemdeanery name
today: Saint Petersburg city, Russia

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

till 1893

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

others related
in death

BOBOTEKClick to display biography Paul, GAWLIKOWSKIClick to display biography Francis, MIKOŁAJCZYKClick to display biography John, NOWAKOWSKIClick to display biography Leo Peter, TOMIECClick to display biography Romualdo, WOLSKIClick to display biography Edmund, WYSOCKIClick to display biography Anthony Peter

sites and events
descriptions

Piotrków Kujawski: 01.11.1939 — mass execution of 8 priests and 14 civilians in the Tabaczyński property's park, in Piotrków Kujawski, carried out by members of the genocidal paramilitary formation Germ. Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz — the decision to create Selbstschutz in the Polish lands occupied by German troops was made in Berlin on 08‐10.09.1939 at a conference headed by Reichsführer‐SS Heinrich Himmler (the formal order bears the date of 20.09.1939), and the chaotically formed units were directly subordinated to the officers of the genocidal SS organization — agents of the Germ. Geheime Staatspolizei (Eng. Secret State Police), Gestapo and German gendarmes, as part of the «Intelligenzaktion», i.e. the action of extermination of the Polish intelligentsia and the leadership classes. The condemned were ordered to board a horse‐drawn cart and all of them were shot on it. Those still alive were killed off with handguns. All buried in a ditch previously dug the Jews, under duress, on a nearby field. After the end of hostilities of the World War 2 during exhumation process 13 bodies were recognized.

«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 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]
)

Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921: 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
[access: 2014.12.20]
)

sources

personal:
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[access: 2012.11.23]
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bibliographical:
Victims of German crime among Włocławek diocese clergy”, Fr Stanislav Librowski, „Włocławek Diocese Chronicle”, 07‐08.1947
Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‐1939. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
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