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

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surname

SZYDZIK

forename(s)

Joseph (pl. Józef)

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    Commemorative plaque, porch, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven cathedral, Pelplin
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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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diocese / province

Culm (Chełmno) diocesemore on
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[access: 2012.11.23]

honorary titles

Papal chamberlainmore on
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[access: 2014.11.22]

prelatemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]

protonotary apostolic (mitre) „in imitation” (ad instar)more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.22]

Knight's Cross „Polonia Restitutamore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

Medal of Independencemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.02.02]

Silver „Cross of Meritmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

Badge of the Pomeranian Military Organization 1918‐1920

date and place
of death

29.09.1939

Bydgoszcztoday: Bydgoszcz city pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of death

20.09.1939, 27.09.1939, 10‑11.1939

Fordontoday: district of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz city pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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details of death

While studying at gymnasium in Brodnica — during Prussian times (partitions of Poland) — member (1886‐1891) and leader (1890‐1891) of the gymnasium chapter of a clandestine Polish self–education Karol Marcinkowski's Pomeranian Philomaths organization In 1918, after the abdication of the German Emperor Wilhelm II Hohenzollern on 09.11.1918, on the day of the armistice between the Allies and Germany signed on 11.11.1918 in the HQ train wagon of Marshal of France Ferdinand Foch in Compiègne — which de facto meant the end of World War I — Germans living in Chojnice founded the Workers' and Soldiers' Council, modeled on similar councils in Bolshevik Russia, which, of course, did not postulate the reconstruction of the Polish state. In response — after the Regency Council appointed few year earlier by the Germans, operating in the area occupied by the Germans, the so‐called General Governorate, transferred the supreme authority over the army to Brigadier Joseph Piłsudski and appointed him commander‐in‐chief of the Polish army, which de facto meant the rebirth of the Polish state — became 15.11.1918 the chairman of the still acting clandestinely Polish Citizens' Committee in Chojnice.

On 02.12.1918, the Polish District People's Council was established openly in Chojnice — after the Polish People's Council was revealed on 11.11.1918 in Poznań, in the Prussian/German partition, renamed the Supreme People's Council three days later. On her behalf, became a delegate to the Polish District Seym in Poznań held on 03‐05.12.1918, where delegates from the lands of the Prussian/German partition, i.e. Greater Poland, Gdańsk Pomerania, Silesia and Warmia and Mazury, expressed, among others, the will to create a united Polish state with access to the sea.

On 11.12.1918, became the chairman of the County People's Council in Chojnice, and on 17.08.1919, a member of the liquidation commission established by it, the purpose of which was to eliminate the structures of German administration in the Chojnice county.

After the German attack on 01.09.1939 on the Republic of Poland (the Russians attacked Poland 17 days later) and the start of World War II, initially took shelter with several parishioners near Wałdów Królewski, c. 10 km from Fordon, on the other, eastern side of the Vistula. After the Germans occupied Fordon and the German occupation began, returned to his parish.

Arrested by the Germans on 20.09.1939.

Jailed in a transit camp in Bydgoszcz.

Was seen in the German Germ. Geheime Staatspolizei (Eng. Secret State Police), i.e. Gestapo offices and in IL Bromberg internment camp — set up in military barracks — with a white cross painted on the back.

Disappeared, probably murdered by a lethal injection.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

FordonClick to display the description, TryszczynClick to display the description, IL BrombergClick to display the description, «Intelligenzaktion»Click to display the description, Reichsgau Danzig‐WestpreußenClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description, Thomas Zan SocietiesClick to display the description, Pomeranian PhilomathsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

19.10.1871

Mikołajkitoday: Mikołajki gm., Mrągowo pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth

18.10.1871

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

23.03.1896 (Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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)

positions held

1938 – 1939

parish priest — Fordontoday: district of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz city pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Fordontoday: district of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz city pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery

till 1939

Bishop's delegate — Lubawa region, Bishop's Commissariat ⋄ Lubawa region, Bishop's Commissariat

1926 – 1939

membership — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ College of Consultors, Diocesan Curia

1929 – 1938

dean — Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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RC deanery

1924 – 1938

parish priest — Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery

editor — Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ „Church News

chaplain — Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ 1st Scout Team

president — Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ branch, Polish Touring Society

president — Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ People's Reading Rooms Society

1905 – 1924

parish priest — Wieletoday: Korsin gm., Kościerzyna pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Tucholatoday: Tuchola gm., Tuchola pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery — the originator and builder of Wiele Calvary as well as the co–founder and director of the People's Bank in Wiele

1903 – 1905

parish priest — Ostródatoday: Ostróda urban gm., Ostróda pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish — also: prefect of gymnasium and lyceum, military chaplain in Prussian „Berg Barracks” and „ Grollman Barracks

curatus/rector/expositus — Chojnicetoday: Chojnice urban gm., Chojnice pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ Correctional House ⋄ Beheading of St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Człuchówtoday: Człuchów gm., Człuchów pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery

vicar — Chojnicetoday: Chojnice urban gm., Chojnice pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ Beheading of St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Człuchówtoday: Człuchów gm., Człuchów pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery

1897

vicar — Pączewotoday: Skórcz gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Gniewtoday: Gniew gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.07.29]
RC deanery

1896 – 1897

vicar — Oliwatoday: district in Gdańsk, Gdańsk city pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Gdańsk Ideanery name
today: Gdańsk city pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.07.04]
RC deanery

1891 – 1896

student — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.05.06]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

1906 – 1939

membership — Toruńtoday: Toruń city pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.20]
⋄ scientific society

Catholic journalist, co‐author of „Churches and Monasteries of Grudziądz” book, 1928

others related
in death

JAKUBOWSKIClick to display biography John, ŁASKIClick to display biography Louis, SZAREKClick to display biography Peter, WIOREKClick to display biography Stanislav, RASZKOWSKIClick to display biography Hubert

sites and events
descriptions

Fordon: In the „Valley of Death” in Fordon, where from 10.10.1939 till 11.11.1939 Germans murdered — as a part of «Intelligenzaktion» aimed at extermination of Polish intelligentsia and ruling classes in Pomerania — 1,200‐3,000 Poles from Bydgoszcz, mainly from intelligentsia. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
)

Tryszczyn: In the vicinity of Tryszczyn (10 km from Bydgoszcz) Germans — as a part of «Intelligenzaktion» aimed at extermination of Polish intelligentsia and ruling classes in Pomerania — murdered from 09.1939 till 10.1939 approx. 900 inhabitants of Bydgoszcz and surrounding villages. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
)

IL Bromberg: Germ. „Internierungslager” (Eng. „Internment camp”) set up on 05.09.1939 — the day Germans took over Bydgoszcz — in 15 Greater Poland Light Artillery Regiment military barracks at 147 Gdańska Str. in Bydgoszcz. In 09.1939 only c. 3,500 Poles were jailed there. Prisoners were held in f. stables or f. armory building. They were maltreated and tortured. Some were shot on the spot (c. 28 victims in 09.1939). Next they were sent to concentration camps throughout Germany. Some were taken to mass execution sites in nearby forests and murdered. On 01.11.1939 the camp was moved to f. ammunition warehouses in Jachcice town district. The camp was closed in 12.1939. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30]
)

«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]
)

Reichsgau Danzig‐Westpreußen: After the Polish defeat in the 09.1939 campaign, which was the result of the Ribbentrop‐Molotov Pact and constituted the first stage of World War II, and the beginning of German occupation in part of Poland (in the other, eastern part of Poland, the Russian occupation began), the Germans divided the occupied Polish territory into five main regions (and a few smaller). The largest one was transformed into Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate), intended exclusively for Poles and Jews and constituting part of the so‐called Germ. Großdeutschland (Eng. Greater Germany). Two were added to existing German provinces. From two other separate new provinces were created. Vistula Pomerania region was one of them, incorporated into Germany on 08.10.1939, by decree of the German leader Adolf Hitler (formally came into force on 26.10.1939), and on 02.11.1939 transformed into the Germ. Reichsgau Danzig‐Westpreußen (Eng. Reich District of Gdańsk‐West Prussia) province, in which the law of the German state was to apply. The main axis of the policy of the new province, the territory of which the Germans recognized as the Germ. „Ursprünglich Deutsche” (Eng. „natively German”), despite the fact that 85% of its inhabitants were Poles, was Germ. „Entpolonisierung” (Eng. „Depolonisation”), i.e. forced Germanization. C. 60,000 Poles were murdered in 1939‐1940, as part of the Germ. „Intelligenzaktion”, i.e. extermination of Polish intelligentsia and ruling classes, in c. 432 places of mass executions — including c. 220 Polish Catholic priests. The same number were sent to German concentration camps, from where few returned (over 300 priests were arrested, of whom c. 130 died in concentration camps). C. 124,000‐170,000 were displaced, including c. 90,000 to the Germ. Generalgouvernement. Poles were forced en masse to sign the German nationality list, the Germ. Deutsche Volksliste DVL. Polish children could only learn in German. It was forbidden to use the Polish language during Catholic Holy Masses and during confession. Polish landed estates were confiscated..To further reduce the number of the Polish population, Poles were sent to forced labor deep inside Germany. The remaining Poles were treated as low‐skilled labor, isolated from the Germans and strictly controlled — legally, three or three of them could only meet together, even in their own apartments. Many were conscripted into the German Wehrmacht army. After the end of hostilities of World War II, the overseer of this province, the Germ. Reichsstatthalter (Eng. Reich Governor) and the Germ. Gauleiter (Eng. district head) of the German National Socialist Party, Albert Maria Forster, was executed. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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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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, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
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)

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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, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
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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
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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
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