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

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    St Sigismund parish church, Słomczyn, Poland
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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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  • RADTKE Steven Boleslaus, source: bibliotekacyfrowa.eu, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFORADTKE Steven Boleslaus
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religious status

Servant of God

surname

RADTKE

forename(s)

Steven Boleslaus (pl. Stefan Bolesław)

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Stephen (pl. Szczepan)

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    Commemorative plaque, St Lawrence church, Rożental
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    Commemorative plaque, St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist cathedral, Toruń
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  • RADTKE Steven Boleslaus - Commemorative plaque, porch, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven cathedral, Pelplin, source: own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFORADTKE Steven Boleslaus
    Commemorative plaque, porch, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven cathedral, Pelplin
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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Culm (Chełmno) diocesemore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2012.11.23]

honorary titles

„Iron Cross” II classmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.04.25]

date and place
of death

29.10.1940

KL Sachsenhausenconcentration camp
today: Sachsenhausen–Oranienburg, Oberhavel dist., Brandenburg state, Germany

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2018.11.18]

details of death

During World War I drafted into German army as a nurse in military hospital in Gdynia.

Sent to Western front.

Awarded German Iron Cross 2nd class.

In 1916 taken POW by French at the front near Somma river and released in 03.1920.

After German invasion of Poland on 01.09.1939 (Russians invaded Poland 17 days later) arrested by the Germans early on 05.09.1939.

Held consecutively in jails and prisons in Olsztynek, Nowym Miasto, Brodnica and Rypin prisons.

Next on 03.11.1939 taken to Obory transit camp.

From there transported to Grudziądz prison and on 04.03.1940 (according to other sources on 22.02.1940) to KL Stutthof concentration camp.

Finally on 09‑10.04.1940 taken to KL Sachsenhausen concentration camp where perished.

alt. details of death

According to other sources arrested on 14.11.1939 and initially jailed in Lubawa prison.

cause of death

extermination: exhaustion and starvation

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

02.03.1890

Dębogórzetoday: Kosakowo gm., Puck pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

14.06.1924 (St Barbara Theological Seminary chapel in Pelplin)

positions held

1938 – 1939

parish priest {parish: Rożentaltoday: Lubawa gm., Iława pow., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
, St Lawrence the Deacon and Martyr; dean.: Lubawatoday: Lubawa urban gm., Iława pow., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.02]
}

1933 – 1938

curatus/rector/expositus {parish: Gdynia – Wielki Kackparish seat name
today: district of Gdynia, Gdynia city pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland

more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
, St Lawrence the Martyr; church: Gdynia – Mały Kackparish seat name
today: district of Gdynia, Gdynia city pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland

more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
, Christ the King; dean.: Gdyniatoday: Gdynia city pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.02]
}

till 1932

vicar {parish: Nowa Cerkiewtoday: Morzeszczyn gm., Tczew pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.02]
}

1931 – 1932

curatus/rector/expositus {parish: Swarzewotoday: Puck gm., Puck pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.03.16]
, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary; church: Łebcztoday: Puck gm., Puck pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.02.24]
, St Martin; dean.: Pucktoday: Puck gm., Puck pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.07.18]
}

1930

vicar {parish: Cekcyn Polskitoday: Cekcyn, Cekcyn gm., Tuchola pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
, Exaltation of the Holy Cross; dean.: Tucholatoday: Tuchola gm., Tuchola pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.02]
}

1927 – 1930

vicar {parish: Papowo Biskupietoday: Papowo Biskupie gm., Chełmno pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
, St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor; dean.: Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.02]
}

vicar {parish: Zwiniarztoday: Grodziczno gm., Nowe Miasto Lubawskie pow., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.19]
, St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor}

vicar {parish: Osietoday: Osie gm., Świecie pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
, Exaltation of the Holy Cross; dean.: Świecietoday: Świecie gm., Świecie pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
}

c. 1925

administrator {parish: Miłobądztoday: Tczew gm., Tczew pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
, St Margaret the Martyr; dean.: Tczewtoday: Tczew urban gm., Tczew pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
}

1924 – 1925

vicar {parish: Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.02]
, Holy Trinity; dean.: Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
}

1920 – 1924

student {Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.05.06]
, philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary}

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murder sites
camp 
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KL Sachsenhausen (prisoner no: 21108Click to display biography): In KL Sachsenhausen concentration camp, set up in the former Olympic village in 07.1936, hundreds of Polish priests were held in 1940, before being transported to KL Dachau. Some of them perished in KL Sachsenhausen. Murderous medical experiments on prisoners were carried out in the camp. In 1942‑4 c. 140 prisoners slaved at manufacturing false British pounds, passports, visas, stamps and other documents. Other prisoners also had to do slave work, for Heinkel aircraft manufacturer, AEG and Siemens among others. On average c. 50,000 prisoners were held at any time. Altogether more than 200,000 inmates were in jailed in KL Sachsenhausen and its branched, out of which tens of thousands perished. Prior to Russian arrival mass evacuation was ordered by the Germans and c. 80,000 prisoners were marched west in so‑called „death marches” to other camps, i.e. KL Mauthausen–Gusen and KL Bergen–Belsen. The camp got liberated on 22.04.1945. After end of armed hostilities Germans set up there secret camp for German prisoners and „suspicious” Russian soldiers. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18]
)

KL Stutthof: In KL Stutthof (then in Eastern Prussian belonging to Germany, today: Sztutowo village) concentration camp, that Germans started to build on 02.09.1939, a day after German invasion of Poland and start of the II World War, Germans held c. 100‑127 thousands prisoners from 28 countries, including 47 thousands women and children. C. 65,000 victims were murdered and exterminated. In the period of 25.01–27.04.1945 in the face of approaching Russian army Germans evacuated the camp. When on 09.05.1945 Russians soldiers entered the camp only 100 prisoners were still there. In an initial period (1939‑40) Polish Catholic priests from Pomerania were held captive there before being transported to KL Dachau concentration camp. Some of them were murdered in KL Stutthof or vicinity (for instance in Stegna forest). Also later some Catholic priests were held in KL Stutthof. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.07.06]
)

Grudziądz: As part of „Intelligenzaktion” — physical extermination of Polish intelligentsia from Pomerania — Germans initially in 1939 jailed Poles is investigative prison in Grudziądz. After it became too small they set‑up a transit camp in a so‑called Borderlands Hostel building at Chopin Str. where they jailed from 4,000 to 5,000 Poles, including c. 150 local priests. Most of them were subsequently murdered in local forests (Księże Góry, Mniszek‑Grupa), some were taken to concentration camps. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.01.13]
)

Obory: From 30.10.1939 till 22.02.1940 in a Carmelite fathers’ convent Germans held up to 100 Polish priest from Płock and Chełmno dioceses prior to sending them to concentration camp. Most of them perished there. (more on: www.obory.com.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.12.28]
)

Rypin: Prison for Poles run by Germans in 1939 known as „Torture House”. As a part of „Intelligenzaktion” — aimed at extermination of Polish intelligentsia and ruling classes in Pomerania — Germans jailed there and tortured up to 1,100 victims. They were subsequently murdered either in the prison itself of in mass murder locations in Skrwileńskie and Rusinowskie forests. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
)

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 II World War 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]
)

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