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surname

SZCZYGIEŁ

surname
versions/aliases

SZCZYGIEL

forename(s)

Francis Joseph (pl. Franciszek Józef)

religious forename(s)

Placidus (pl. Placydus)

function

religious cleric

creed

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

congregation

Order of Friars Minor OFMmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

(i.e. Franciscans, Minorites)

diocese / province

St Hedwig od Silesia province OFMmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.08.18]

date and place
of death

11.12.1943

KL Dachauconcentration camp
today: Dachau, Upper Bavaria reg., Bavaria state, Germany

more on
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[access: 2016.05.30]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, on the day Germans attacked their erstwhile ally, Russians, on 22.06.1941, during a sermon warned young women about contact with soldiers.

Five days later on 27.06.1941 arrested.

On 17.07.1942 transported from KL Buchenwald concentration camp to KL Dachau concentration camp where perished.

prisoner camp's numbers

31568Click to display source page (KL DachauClick to display the description)

cause of death

extermination: exhaustion and starvation

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

KL DachauClick to display the description, KL BuchenwaldClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

04.09.1879

Bogucicetoday: district of Katowice, Katowice city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.02]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

22.06.1907 (Wrocławtoday: Wrocław city pov., Lower Silesia voiv., Poland
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)

positions held

c. 1939 – 1941

friar — Borki Wielkietoday: Olesno gm., Olesno pov., Opole voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Francis of Assisi monastery, Franciscans OFM

c. 1936 – c. 1939

friar — Nysatoday: Nysa gm., Nysa pov., Opole voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.02]
⋄ St Elizabeth of Hungary monastery, Franciscans OFM

c. 1931 – c. 1936

friar — Borki Wielkietoday: Olesno gm., Olesno pov., Opole voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Francis of Assisi monastery, Franciscans OFM

c. 1928 – c. 1930

vicar — Góra Świętej Annytoday: Leśnica gm., Strzelce Opolskie pov., Opole voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.02]
⋄ St Anne monastery, Franciscans OFM

c. 1925 – c. 1927

friar — Góra Świętej Annytoday: Leśnica gm., Strzelce Opolskie pov., Opole voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.02]
⋄ St Anne monastery, Franciscans OFM

c. 1920 – c. 1921

guardian — Panewnikitoday: part of Ligota‐Panewniki district in Katowice, Katowice city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.08.12]
⋄ St Louis the King and Confessor monastery, Franciscans OFM

c. 1919 – c. 1920

friar — Panewnikitoday: part of Ligota‐Panewniki district in Katowice, Katowice city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.08.12]
⋄ St Louis the King and Confessor monastery, Franciscans OFM

c. 1919

friar — Prudniktoday: Prudnik gm., Prudnik pov., Opole voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.04.02]
⋄ St Joseph monastery, Franciscans OFM

c. 1911 – c. 1918

friar — Panewnikitoday: part of Ligota‐Panewniki district in Katowice, Katowice city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.12]
⋄ St Louis the King and Confessor monastery, Franciscans OFM

c. 1909 – c. 1909

friar — Góra Świętej Annytoday: Leśnica gm., Strzelce Opolskie pov., Opole voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.02]
⋄ St Anne monastery, Franciscans OFM

26.03.1900 – 1901

novitiate — Franciscans OFM

sites and events
descriptions

KL Dachau: KL Dachau in German Bavaria, set up in 1933, became the main German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL for Catholic priests and religious during World War II: On c. 09.11.1940, Reichsführer‐SS Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, Gestapo and German police, as a result of the Vatican's intervention, decided to transfer all clergymen detained in various concentration camps to KL Dachau camp. The first major transports took place on 08.12.1940. In KL Dachau Germans held approx. 3,000 priests, including 1,800 Poles. The priests were forced to slave labor in the Germ. „Die Plantage” — the largest herb garden in Europe, managed by the genocidal SS, consisting of many greenhouses, laboratory buildings and arable land, where experiments with new natural medicines were conducted — for many hours, without breaks, without protective clothing, no food. They slaved in construction, e.g. of camp's crematorium. In the barracks ruled hunger, freezing cold in the winter and suffocating heat during the summer, especially acute in 1941‐1942. Prisoners suffered from bouts of illnesses, including tuberculosis. Many were victims of murderous „medical experiments” — in 11.1942 c. 20 were given phlegmon injections; in 07.1942 to 05.1944 c. 120 were used by for malaria experiments. More than 750 Polish clerics where murdered by the Germans, some brought to Schloss Hartheim euthanasia centre and murdered in gas chambers. At its peak KL Dachau concentration camps’ system had nearly 100 slave labour sub‐camps located throughout southern Germany and Austria. There were c. 32,000 documented deaths at the camp, and thousands perished without a trace. C. 10,000 of the 30,000 inmates were found sick at the time of liberation, on 29.04.1945, by the USA troops… (more on: www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.deClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10]
, en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.05.30]
)

KL Buchenwald: In German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) 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]
)

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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