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

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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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religious status

Servant of God

surname

ROGACZEWSKI

forename(s)

Adalbert Theophilus (pl. Wojciech Teofil)

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Albert

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Polish Catholic Mission in France
Culm (Chełmno) diocesemore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2012.11.23]

Warmia diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2018.09.02]

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

honorary titles

Gold „Cross of Merit”more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

honorary canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
(Pelpin cathedralmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
)

date and place
of death

16.03.1944

KL Buchenwaldconcentration camp
today: n. Weimar, Weimar urban dist., Thuringia state, Germany

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

details of death

During German occupation (Prussian partition of Poland), while studying at the Germ. Königliches Gymnasium (Eng. Royal Gymnasium) in Brodnica, member and chairman (1908‑1910) of the school chapter of the Polish clandestine student self–education Pomeranian Philomaths organization — „Thomas Zan Society”.

After the abdication of the German Emperor William II Hohenzollern on 09.11.1918 and the end of the World War I arrested by the Germans in 1919 and accused of inciting Polish national sentiments among his parishioners. Released but moved from Kętrzyn to other parish with German majority.

There, in Pobiedziska, continued his ministry among Polish parishioners. Despite formal ban conducted religious education in Polish.

During a plebiscite that was to decide the fate of Warmia and Mazurian regions after World War I, called by Ligue of Nations, collaborated with Polish Central Peoples Council in Poznań and Plebiscite Committee in Grajewo.

In 1926 expelled by the Germans from Eastern Prussia and his Warmia diocese.

For a short time settled in Chełmno diocese and next moved to France to minister to Polish emigrees.

When World War II broke out — started by German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 — still ministered in France.

In 1940, after German invasion of France in 05.1940, expelled by Germans from Metz.

Moved to Lyon in Vichy France.

Participant of the French resistance movement.

On 08.05.1943 arrested by the Germans — the same day heavily wounded during an escape attempt.

Treated in Lyon hospital under heavy guard.

After a couple of months jailed in Lyon and Mont Luc prisons.

Tortured.

Next interned in Fresnes and Compiègne transit camps.

On 29.01.1944 transported to KL Buchenwald concentration camp where was murdered — was the victim of German pseudo „medical experiments” program, had typhus bacteria injected.

cause of death

extermination: medical experiments

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

23.04.1888

Dąbrówkatoday: Dąbrówka Pruska, Mikołajki Pomorskie gm., Sztum pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth

22.04.1888

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

05.07.1914 (Fromborktoday: Frombork gm., Braniewo pov., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]
)

positions held

1940 – 1943

dean — Lyontoday: Rodan dep., Auvergne–Rhône–Alpes reg., France
more on
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[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ Polish Mission — head of the Polish Pastoral Center in Vichy France (Fr. La France de Vichy), i.e. the French state established in southern France after the defeat in the war with Germany in 05.1940 — among Polish emigrants and migrants

1930 – 1940

dean — Metztoday: Metz arr., Mozela dep., Grand Est reg., France
more on
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[access: 2022.07.18]
⋄ Polish Mission — among Polish emigrants and migrants

1927 – 1930

priest — Brieytoday: Meurthe–et–Moselle dep., Grand Est reg., France
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]
 — among Polish emigrants and migrants

1926 – 1927

priest — Lubawatoday: Lubawa urban gm., Iława pov., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St Anne RC parish ⋄ Lubawatoday: Lubawa urban gm., Iława pov., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery

1919 – 1926

curatus/rector/expositus — Prawdziskatoday: Kalinowo gm., Ełk pov., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.04.12]
⋄ St Andrew the Apostle RC church ⋄ Reszel / Mazury IIdeanery names/seats
today: Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
RC deanery

1914 – 1919

vicar — Kętrzyntoday: Kętrzyn urban gm., Kętrzyn pov., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St Catherine RC parish ⋄ Reszeltoday: Reszel gm., Kętrzyn pov., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]
RC deanery — also: took care for Polish seasonal workers and Polish prisoners of war — soldiers of the Imperial Russian Army

1911 – 1914

student — Braniewotoday: Braniewo urban gm., Braniewo pov., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.02.14]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

1910 – 1911

student — Berlintoday: Berlin state, Germany
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ veterinary

others related
in death

BUKOWSKIClick to display biography Leopold, DOMERACKIClick to display biography Joseph, DRWALClick to display biography Francis, DRWĘSKIClick to display biography Stanislav (Bro. Felician), GLAKOWSKIClick to display biography Stanislav, HANKEClick to display biography Francis, HAROŃSKIClick to display biography Leo, HUWERClick to display biography Joseph, KULISZClick to display biography Charles, KUPILASClick to display biography Francis, LANGNERClick to display biography Herbert, PANKOWSKIClick to display biography Marian, POLEDNIAClick to display biography Paul, SCHULZClick to display biography Joseph Valentine, SEKRECKIClick to display biography Henry, STOCKClick to display biography Joseph

murder sites
camp 
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KL Buchenwald: In KL Buchenwald concentration camp, founded in 1937 and operational till 1945, Germans held c. 238,380 prisoners and murdered approx. 56,000 of them, among them thousands of Poles. Prisoners were victims of pseudo–scientific experiments, conducted among others by Behring–Werke from Marburg and Robert Koch Institute from Berlin companies. They slaved for Gustloff in Weimar and Fritz–Sauckel companies manufacturing armaments. To support Erla–Maschinenwerk GmbH in Leipzig, Junkers in Schönebeck (airplanes) and Rautal in Wernigerode Germans organized special sub–camps. In 1945 there were more than 100 such sub–camps. Dora concentration camp was initially one of them, as well as KL Ravensbrück sub–camps (from 08.1944). On 08.04.1945 Polish prisoner, Mr Guido Damazyn, used clandestinely constructed short wave transmitter to sent, together with a Russian prisoner, a short message begging for help. It was received and he got a reply: „KZ Bu. Hold out. Rushing to your aid. Staff of Third Army” (American). Three days later the camp was liberated. (more on: www.buchenwald.deClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10]
, en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10]
)

Medical experiments: Criminal medical experiments conducted by German specialists on concentration camp inmates. Among tests, in KL Dachau, KL Auschwitz, KL Buchenwald and other camps, performed by German murderers were malaria injections, liver tests, injections of tuberculosis, typhoid, phlegmon germs, flying tests (in pressure chambers), blood crystallization and coagulation tests, hypothermia, sterilization, starvation tests, etc. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
, 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
[access: 2023.05.28]
, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

Thomas Zan Societies: Secret societies of Polish youth, aiming at self–education, patriotic in form and content, functioning 1830‑1920, in mutiny against enforced Germanisation and censure of Polish culture, mainly in secondary schools — gymnasia — mainly in Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) and later in Silesia. The first groups were formed in 1817. In 1897 a congress in Bydgoszcz was held when rules of clandestine activities were formulated. At other congress in Bydgoszcz in Poznań a „Red Rose” society was formed, heading all others groups in various gymnasiums and coordinating their activities. In 1900 „Red Rose” consolidated Philomaths organizations from Pomerania as well. After Toruń trial of Pomeranian Philomaths in Toruń Germans arrested 24 members of Thomas Zan Society from Gniezno. 21 of them were sentenced up to 6 weeks in prison and reprimands. All were relegated from schools without the right to continue education in secondary and higher schools in Prussia. Despite repression the Societies existed till 1918 and rebirth of Poland. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
)

Pomeranian Philomaths: Secret societies of Polish youth, aiming at self–education, patriotic in form and content, functioning 1830‑1920, mainly in secondary schools — gymnasia — in Pomerania around Vistula river (Gdańsk Pomerania and Chełmno county), in Prussian–occupied Polish territories (one of the partitions of Poland). On 08.01.1901 Germans conducted a series of interrogations of students at Chełmno, Brodnica and Toruń gymnasiums. On 09‑12.09.1901 the first of court trials of Polish students from those gymnasiums and students of Theological Seminary in Pelplin was held in Toruń. 1 person was sentenced to 3 months in prison, 1 to 2 months, 3 to 6 weeks, 7 to 3 weeks, 2 to 2 weeks, 19 to a week, 2 to 1 day, 10 were reprimanded. 15 were cleared. More definitive penalties were relegations from the schools with so‑called wolf’s ticket, forbidding sentenced students to continue secondary and higher studies in Prussia (Germany). Among those penalized were a few future Catholic priests — those were able to continue their education for the Chełmno diocese bishop, Bp August Rosentreter, refused to relegate students from Theological Seminary. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18]
)

sources

personal:
ekai.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
, gosc.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.10.05]
, pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
, www.kpbc.ukw.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.10.05]

bibliographical:
Biographical dictionary of priests of the Chełmno diocese ordained in the years 1821‑1920”, Henry Mross, Pelplin, 1995
original images:
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[access: 2014.03.21]

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