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

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surname

TRUSS

surname
versions/aliases

TRUSS-CYRIAK

forename(s)

Boleslav Cyriac (pl. Bolesław Cyriak)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Lutsk diocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]

Lutsk-Zhytomyr diocese (aeque principaliter)more on
www.catholic-hierarchy.org
[access: 2021.12.19]

Siedlce diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.06]

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

honorary titles

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

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

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

3rd of May Medal
Medal „For Long Service”more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.05.25]

„Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice”more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.02.02]

date and place
of death

12.07.1942

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

more on
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[access: 2016.05.30]

details of death

During World War I, in 1917, started cooperation with the clandestine Polish Military Organization in Klevan.

After Poland regained independence in 11.1918, on 29.09.1919(?) voluntarily joined the Polish Army, becoming the chaplain of the 101st Reserve Infantry Regiment (formed on 01.06.1920).

Together with it, as part of the 2nd Brigade of the Volunteer Division in 3rd Polish Army, took part in the Polish–Russian war of 1919‑1921 (it covered the withdrawal of the Polish army from Ukraine fighting, inter alia, near Zvyahel, Dubno, Brody, Ostrów Mazowiecka, Osówek, Grajewo, Łomża, Pułtusk, Nasielsk, Modlin, and after the Russian defeat in Warsaw Battle, known as the „Miracle on the Vistula” near Ciechanów, Przasnysz, Ostrów Mazowiecka, Nowy Dwór, Grodno, and ending in Orany in Lithuania).

After the end of the war, remained in the military pastoral ministry.

At the end of 08.1939, during the general mobilization, appointed Dean — Head of the Pastoral Services — of the „Kraków” Army of the Polish Armed Forces.

Until the German (and also Slovak) invasion of Poland on 01.09.1939 (Russians invaded Poland 17 days later) and the start of World War II, did not manage to reach the headquarters of the assigned army (the army defended the section from Upper Silesia to Zakopane).

Joined her later in the Lublin region, after the army withdrew into Poland.

On 17‑19.09.1939 prob. took part in the battle of Tomaszów Lubelski, and after the defeat of the Polish army, was taken prisoner by the Germans on 20.09.1939.

Initially held in POW camp in Kraków, and next transported to the POW Oflag VII A Murnau camp.

From there moved to Oflag IX A/Z Rotenburg camp for officers.

From there on 18.04.1940, in contravention of Geneva conventions of 27.07.1929, transported to KL Buchenwald concentration camp, and finally on 06‑07.07.1942 to KL Dachau concentration camp where perished.

cause of death

extermination: exhaustion and starvation

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

19.12.1890

Sawintoday: Sawin gm., Chełm pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1915

positions held

from 08.1939

dean — „Kraków” Army, Polish Armed Forces — head of the Roman Catholic Pastoral Ministry

1924 – 1939

chaplain — Dęblintoday: Dęblin miasto gm., Ryki pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Command of the Corps District DOK No. I Warsaw, Polish Armed Forces ⋄ St Michael the Archangel RC garrison church ⋄ St Pius V RC parish ⋄ Stężycatoday: Stężyca gm., Ryki pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery — also: chaplain of the 15th „Wolves” Infantry Regiment, stationed in Dęblin; 28th Light Artillery Regiment, stationed in Zajezierze n. Dęblin; and aviation units stationed in Dęblin from 1927

01.01.1934

RC senior military chaplain — Polish Armed Forces — commissioned, with seniority of 01.01.1934, in the major rank

1922 – 1924

chaplain — Kutno i ŁęczycaPolish Army garrisons' seats
today: Łódź voiv., Poland
⋄ garrison, Command of the Corps District DOK No. IV Łódź, Polish Armed Forces — also: chaplain of the Łęczyca Region 37th Infantry Regiment, stationed in Kutno

1921 – 1922

chaplain — Starogard Gdańskitoday: Starogard Gdański gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ garrison, Command of the Corps District DOK No. VIII Toruń, Polish Armed Forces — till 15.11.1921 Command of the General District „Pomerania

01.06.1919

chaplain — Polish Armed Forces — commissioned, with seniority from 01.06.1919, in the captain rank

c. 1919 – c. 1921

administrator — Klevantoday: Klevan hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Rivnetoday: Rivne urban hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

till c. 1918

vicar — Proskurivtoday: Khmelnytskyi, Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi urban hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.11.27]
⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Proskurivtoday: Khmelnytskyi, Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi urban hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

1910 – 1915

student — Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

others related
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BELONClick to display biography Zdislav Anthony, BRYDACKIClick to display biography Louis, DACHTERAClick to display biography Francis, DRWALClick to display biography Francis, FRANCUZClick to display biography John, GÓRALIKClick to display biography John, JĘDRYSIKClick to display biography Severin (Fr Vincent), KLARZAKClick to display biography Joseph, KRYŃSKIClick to display biography Adolph, LISSOWSKIClick to display biography Ceslav Joseph, MICHUŁKAClick to display biography John, MIEGOŃClick to display biography Vladislav, STOPCZAKClick to display biography Marian, SYPERClick to display biography Stanislav, SZABELSKIClick to display biography Edward, ŚWIDEREKClick to display biography Vladislav, TOMIAKClick to display biography Joseph, ZAKRZEWSKIClick to display biography John, ZIEMIAŃSKIClick to display biography Michael Urban, ZIĘBAClick to display biography Adalbert

murder sites
camp 
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KL Dachau (prisoner no: 31236Click to display biography): KL Dachau in German Bavaria, set up in 1933, became the main concentration camp 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. 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 (prisoner no: 1779Click to display biography): 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]
)

Oflag IX C Rotenburg an der Fulda: German POW prisoner of war camp for officers in Rotenburg an der Fulda in Hesse. C. 60‑70 Polish Catholic priests, most of them military chaplains, captured by the Germans in 09.1939 during German invasion of Poland, were held POW there from 12.1939. In preparations for invasion of France all on 18.04.1940 were sent — in contravention of Geneva conventions of 27.07.1929 — to KL Buchenwald concentration camps. From 06.1940 Germ. Zweiglager (Eng. sub–camp) of Oflag IX A/H Spangenberg and renamed Oflag IX A/Z. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.11.17]
)

Oflag VII A Murnau: German POW camp for Polish officers in Murnau am Staffelsee in Bavaria, set up in 09.1939 (first POW were brought in on 06.10.1939). Up to of 5,457 (including 5,114 Poles and among them at least 31 generals) were held POW there. The camp was established in barracks — built in 1939 for c. 600 soldiers — which were practically unfinished until the end of the camp's operation. As the numbers in the camp increased, attics and basements in residential buildings and garages were converted into rooms. The camp was liberated on 29.04.1945 by a unit of American troops. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.11.17]
)

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]
)

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
[access: 2014.12.20]
)

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bibliographical:
Martyrology of the Polish Roman Catholic clergy under nazi occupation in 1939‑1945”, Victor Jacewicz, John Woś, vol. I‑V, Warsaw Theological Academy, 1977‑1981
Register of Latin rite Lviv metropolis clergy’s losses in 1939‑45”, Józef Krętosz, Maria Pawłowiczowa, editors, Opole, 2005
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