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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)
personal data
religious status
Servant of God
surname
WITKOWSKA
surname
versions/aliases
WITTKOWSKA
forename(s)
Marianne (pl. Marianna)
religious forename(s)
Mary Theodora (pl. Maria Teodora)
function
nun
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
congregation
Congregation of Sisters of st Elizabeth CSSEmore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
(i.e. St Elizabeth Sisters)
diocese / province
Warmia diocesemore on
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[access: 2018.09.02]
date and place
of death
28.01.1945
Dzierzgońtoday: Dzierzgoń gm., Sztum pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28]
details of death
During the final Russian push of the World War II — started by German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 — in 1945 and defeat of the German army shot by Russian soldiers, defending honour of a co‐nun, Sr Amabilis.
Dzierzgoń was captured by the Russians on 25.01.1945 during so‐called East Prussian offensive.
The town was destroyed in 75% during the fights.
The looting and rapes have begun…
cause of death
extermination: rape and murder
perpetrators
Russians
sites and events
Mass rapes in 1945Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description
date and place
of birth
23.03.1889
Koźmintoday: Skarszewy gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
religious vows
23.05.1911 (temporary)
06.05.1920 (permanent)
positions held
1944 – 1945
nun — Dzierzgońtoday: Dzierzgoń gm., Sztum pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28] ⋄ Congregation's house, St Elizabeth Sisters CSSE — superior and sacristan
till 1944
nun — Plutytoday: Pieniężno gm., Braniewo pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28] ⋄ Congregation's house, St Elizabeth Sisters CSSE — superior and sacristan
from 1937
nun — Nidzicatoday: Nidzica gm., Nidzica pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18] ⋄ Congregation's house, St Elizabeth Sisters CSSE — superior and sacristan
1936 – 1937
nun — Mikołajki Pomorskietoday: Mikołajki Pomorskie gm., Sztum pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18] ⋄ Congregation's house, St Elizabeth Sisters CSSE — nurse
1923 – 1936
nun — Postolintoday: Sztum gm., Sztum pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.05.20] ⋄ Congregation's house, St Elizabeth Sisters CSSE — nurse, incl. midwife and tuberculosis patients
1910 – 1923
nun — Tilsittoday: Sovetsk, Królewiec oblast, Russia
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[access: 2022.01.06] ⋄ Congregation's house, St Elizabeth Sisters CSSE — nurse
from 13.05.1909
novitiate — Królewiectoday: Królewiec oblast, Russia
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[access: 2022.02.24] ⋄ Congregation's house, St Elizabeth Sisters CSSE
28.04.1908
accession — Królewiectoday: Królewiec oblast, Russia
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[access: 2022.02.24] ⋄ St Elizabeth Sisters CSSE
others related
in death
ELLMERERClick to display biography Anne (Sr Felicitas), GOLDBERGClick to display biography Helen (Sr Acutina), HEYMANNClick to display biography Lucy (Sr Sapientia), JAHNClick to display biography Mary Magdalene (Sr Paschalis), KUBITZKIClick to display biography Juliana (Sr Edelburgis), RYBKAClick to display biography Martha (Sr Melusia), SCHILLINGClick to display biography Alfreda (Sr Rosaria), SCHRAMMClick to display biography Claire (Sr Adele), THIENELClick to display biography Anne (Sr Sabine), TÖPFERClick to display biography Hedwig (Sr Adelheidis)
sites and events
descriptions
Mass rapes in 1945: During capture in 1944‐1945 of pre‐war German territories and territories incorporated into Germany in 1939 after German invasion of Poland Russian soldiers committed mass, often multiple, rapes on mainly German, but also Polish, women. Up to 2 mln women might have been violated, from 8 to 80 or more years old. Many were murdered as a consequence. Rapes were prob. tolerated if not encouraged by Russian military and civilian NKVD commanders. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.03.01])
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])
sources
personal:
ekai.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], www.siostryelzbietanki.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]
original images:
elzbietankipoznan.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.05.06], elzbietankipoznan.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.05.06], encyklopedia.warmia.mazury.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.05.06], www.salon24.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.05.06], www.elzbietanki.waw.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.05.06]
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