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surname

POTRZEBSKI

surname
versions/aliases

POTRZEBOWSKI

forename(s)

Victor Francis (pl. Wiktor Franciszek)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Warsaw archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Vilnius archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Lviv archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

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

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

honorary titles

Expositorii Canonicalis canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]

Officer's Cross „Polonia Restituta”more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

„Cross of Independence”more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.02.02]

date and place
of death

04.09.1944

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

details of death

In 1907 expelled from Russian–controlled Poland for Polish patriotic stance.

Settled first in Greater Poland in German–controlled part of partitioned Poland, then in Galicia controlled by the Austrians.

There among others chaplain of Bartosze Squads, Polish youth cultural–civic organisation, promulgating gymnastic prowess, and later military training — in Buczacz branch, among others.

In 1918 temporarily detained by Austrians.

Participant of Lviv defence against invading Russians in 1920.

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II took part in heroic defense on 20‑24.09.1939 of Grodno — from Russian barbarians, who resorted to tying captured Poles to their tanks and using them as shields — together with Fr Innocent Guz, Fr Francis Zakrzewski and Fr Henry Hlebowicz, among others.

After start of Russian occupation and ever increasing terror against Polish population, in danger of imminent arrest, in 12.1939 crossed over to Warsaw (to German–controlled General Governorate).

Ministered as chaplain to the Sisters of Loreto in Warsaw–Praga (1939‑1944).

Prefect, organiser and participant of clandestine education network on secondary level (part of Polish Clandestine State).

From 10.1942 chaplain to the clandestine resistance Home Army AK „Vistula” unit (later „Kiliński” battalion).

During Warsaw Uprising chaplain of the Polish clandestine resistance Home Army AK IV Region of the I Warsaw Midtown Group (nom‑de‑guerre „Vladislav Orłowski”, „Corda”).

Perished during Warsaw Uprising as a result of a heavy crushing–ignition German shell explosion at 4 Szpitalna Str. building, together with c. 100 people.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

30.07.1880

Ślesintoday: Ślesin gm., Konin pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth

30.08.1880

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

06.1904 (Włocławektoday: Włocławek city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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)

positions held

1939 – 1944

chaplain — WarsawPraga district on the right bank of Vistula
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland

more on
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⋄ Congregation's house, Loretto Nuns CSL

1937 – 1939

director — Grodnotoday: Grodno dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2023.01.18]
⋄ Adam Mickiewicz's gymnasium

1928 – 1937

prefect — Trakaitoday: Trakai eld., Trakai dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ State Teachers' Seminary

1927 – 1928

curatus/rector/expositus — Piotrków Trybunalskitoday: Piotrków Trybunalski city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.29]
⋄ St Francis Xavier RC church ⋄ St James the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Piotrków Trybunalskitoday: Piotrków Trybunalski city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.29]
RC deanery

1922 – 1927

rector — Piotrków Trybunalskitoday: Piotrków Trybunalski city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.07.29]
⋄ Our Lady of the Snow RC church

1922 – 1928

prefect — Piotrków Trybunalskitoday: Piotrków Trybunalski city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.07.29]
⋄ secondary schools, incl. Bolesław the Brave's gymnasium

1921 – 1922

prefect — Bełchatówtoday: Bełchatów urban gm., Bełchatów pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ school(s) in the parish ⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Bełchatówtoday: Bełchatów urban gm., Bełchatów pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1916 – 1921

administrator — Sokolivkatoday: Bibrka urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Svirzhtoday: Bibrka urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.10.15]
RC deanery

1913 – 1916

prefect — Monastyryskatoday: Monastyryska urban hrom., Chortkiv rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ school(s) in the parish ⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Buchachtoday: Buchach urban hrom., Chortkiv rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.15]
RC deanery

1909 – 1913

prefect — Dolynatoday: Dolyna urban hrom., Kalush rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano–Frankivsk, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.20]
⋄ school(s) in the parish ⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Dolynatoday: Dolyna urban hrom., Kalush rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano–Frankivsk, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.20]
RC deanery

1908 – 1909

vicar — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ St Anne RC parish ⋄ Lviv intra Urbemdeanery name
today: Lviv, Ukraine
RC deanery

1904 – 1907

vicar — Kołotoday: Koło urban gm., Koło pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Exaltation of the Holy Cross RC parish ⋄ Kołotoday: Koło urban gm., Koło pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

till 1904

student — Włocławektoday: Włocławek city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

others related
in death

GUZClick to display biography Joseph Adalbert (Fr Innocent), HLEBOWICZClick to display biography Henry, ZAKRZEWSKIClick to display biography Francis

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Warsaw Uprising: Lasted from 01.08.1944 till 03.10.1944. Was an attempt to liberate Polish capital from occupying Germans by the Polish Clandestine State — a unique in the history of the world political structure on the territories occupied by the Germans, effectively governing clandestinely in Poland — and by fighting on its behalf underground military units, mainly of Home Army (former Armed Struggle Association ZWZ) and National Armed Forced (NSZ). At the same time Russians stopped on purpose the offensive on all front, halted on the other bank of Vistula river and watched calmly the annihilation of the city, refusing even the mid–landing rights to the Allied planes carrying weapons and supplies to the insurgents from Italy. During the Uprising Germans murdered approx. 200,000 Poles, mainly civilians. Approx. 200 priests and nuns died in fighting or were murdered by the Germans, many in mass executions. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
)

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
[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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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
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bibliographical:
Vilnius archdiocese clergy martyrology 1939‑1945”, Fr Thaddeus Krahel, Białystok, 2017
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