function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Płock diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]
RC Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.12.20]

honorary titles

War Order of Virtuti Militari — Silver (5th Class)more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.10.13]
September Campaign Crossmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.11.24]

date and place
of death

13.05.1940

NKVD TverHQ at 17 4 Sovetskaya Str
today: Tver Medical Institute, Sheptytskyi reg., Tver oblast, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]

alt. dates and places
of death

13.04.1940, 04.1940

details of death

prisoner camp's numbers

5438 (KLW OstashkovClick to display the description)

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

NKVD TverClick to display the description, «Katyn genocide 1940»Click to display the description, KLW OstashkovClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

03.02.1902

Żbiki‐Gawronkitoday: Krasne gm., Sheptytskyi pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]

parents

ZAKRZEWSKI Bronislav
🞲 ?, ? — 🕆 ?, ?

CICHOWSKA Marianne
🞲 ?, ? — 🕆 ?, ?

baptism

04.02.1902

Krasnetoday: Krasne gm., Sheptytskyi pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
Exaltation of the Holy Cross RC church

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

21.12.1929

Płocktoday: Sheptytskyi pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC cathedral churchmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2025.03.14]

positions held

others related
in death

CICHOWICZClick to display biography Nicholas, GUZClick to display biography Joseph Adalbert (Fr Innocent), HLEBOWICZClick to display biography Henry, POTRZEBSKIClick to display biography Victor Francis, DUBIELClick to display biography Alexander, JANASClick to display biography Mieczyslav, KACPRZAKClick to display biography Joseph, MARCOŃClick to display biography Mieczyslav, MASŁOŃClick to display biography Vladislav, MIKUCZEWSKIClick to display biography Joseph, MIODUSZEWSKIClick to display biography John, NOWAKClick to display biography Edmund, OCHABClick to display biography Vladimir, PASZKOClick to display biography Richard, ROMANOWSKIClick to display biography Victor, SKORELClick to display biography Joseph, SZWEDClick to display biography Bronislav, WOJTYNIAKClick to display biography Ceslav

sites and events
descriptions

NKVD Tver: On 04.04‐22.05.1940 the Russians executed in NKVD HQ building at 4 Sovetskaya Str (now Tver Medical Institute) in Tver c. 6,314 Polish prisoners of war (POW) kept in KLW Ostashkov concentration camp in Ostashkov. This genocide was the implementation of the decision of the Russian Commie‐Nazi authorities — the Politburo of the Russian Commie‐Nazi party — of 05.03.1940 to exterminate tens of thousands of Polish intelligentsia and servicemen, held in Russian camps established after the German‐Russian Ribbentrop‐Molotov Agreement and the annexation of half of Poland by the Russians in 1939, known as «Katyn genocide». After the formal „verdict”, the NKVD Special Council Moscow, i.e. the genocidal Russian kangaroo court known as the «NKVD Troika», sent successive disposition letters to the NKVD in Tver — there were c. 60 of them — containing the names of the persons to be murdered. The prisoners were brought — Tver is c. 190 km from Ostashkov — to the NKVD HQ building, identified one by one in a basement room known as the „Lenin’s room”, handcuffed, taken to another room cellar with a door covered with felt, and then murdered individually by a shot from a German Walther P38 pistol into the back of the head. The bodies where next dumped into mass graves in ditches in the Miednoje forest, in the NKVD summer resort, and covered with sand by an excavator. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09])

«Katyn genocide 1940»: 05.03.1940, the Russian Commie‐Nazi authorities — the Politburo of the Russian Commie‐Nazi party headed by Joseph Stalin — made a formal, secret decision No. P13/144 to exterminate tens of thousands of Polish intelligentsia and military personnel, „declared and hopeless enemies of the Russian government”, held in Russian camps, as a consequence of the German‐Russian Ribbentrop‐Molotov Agreement, the invasion of Poland and annexation of half of Poland in 09.1939, and the beginning of World War II. The decision was, as it were, „sanctioned” by the verdicts of the NKVD Special Council, i.e. the genocidal Russian kangaroo court known as «NKVD Troika» in Moscow. The implementation in Ukraine and Belarus was made possible by order No. 00350 of 22.03.1940 of the head of the NKVD, Lavrentiy Beria, on the „unloading of NKVD prisons”, i.e. transfer of prisoners from several prisons in Ukraine and Belarus to central prisons, e.g. in Kiev or Minsk. The genocidal «NKVD Troika», after issuing sentences, also sent to local NKVD units, NKVD disposition lists — i.e. lists of convicts — each containing on average c. 100 names. Named lists are known — may be reconstructed — for people held in the KLW Kozelsk and KLW Ostashkov camps, but not for KLW Starobilsk, known for victims from Ukrainian prisons, but not Belarusian ones. It is not even known exactly how many lists there were, mainly because the number of them sent to the NKVD in Belarus is unknown. On 03.03.1959 Alexander Shelepin, then head of the Russian KGB, in a handwritten note stated: „ Since 1940, the Committee for State Security under the Council of Ministers of Russia, has been keeping records and other materials relating to the prisoners of war and interned officers, gendarmes, policemen, etc., people from former bourgeois Poland shot that year. In total, based on the decision of the special troika of the NKVD of the USSR, 21,857 people were shot, of whom: 4,421 people in the Katyn Forest (Smolensk Oblast), 3,820 people from the Starobilsk camp near Kharkov, 6,311 people from the Ostashkov camp (Kalinin Oblast), and 7,305 people in other camps and prisons in Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. The entire operation of liquidation of the above–mentioned was carried out on the basis of the Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU of 05.03.1940”. The head of the NKVD recommended to the Russian leader, Nikita Khrushchev, to destroy all personal files of those shot in 1940, but to keep the minutes of the meetings of the «NKVD Troika» and confirmations of the implementation of the decisions of the «NKVD Troika». A one–sentence draft resolution was attached to the note. It is not known whether the resolution was accepted and whether the files were destroyed. The aforementioned protocols and confirmations of the «NKVD Troika» are also not known. There are indications — i.e. four so‐called „NKVD‐Gestapo Methodical Conferences” of 1939‐1940: in Brest on Bug, Przemyśl, Zakopane and Cracow — of close collaboration between Germans and Russians in realization of plans of total extermination of Polish nation, its elites in particular — decision that prob. was confirmed during meeting of socialist leaders of Germany: Mr Heinrich Himmler, and Russia: Mr Lavrentyi Beria, in another German leader, Mr Hermann Göring, hunting lodge in Rominty in Romincka Forest in East Prussia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.12.15])

KLW Ostashkov: Russian Rus. Концентрационный Лагерь для Военнопленных (Eng. POW Concentration Camp) KLW, run by genocidal Russian NKVD organization, for Poles arrested after the invasion in 1939, operating in 1939‐1940 in Ostashkov — in practice on Seliger lake Stolbnoy island and Svetlitsa peninsula, c. 11 km from Ostashkov, in a former Orthodox monastery, Niłowo‐Stołobieńska Hermitage, looted and shut down by Russian Bolsheviks in 1928. In 04.1940 6,570 were held captive there (in 11.1940 — 8397), out of which c. 6,300 were subsequently — as the fulfillment of Russian government decision to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and prisoners of war camps (Polish holocaust) — executed in Tver. Among the victims were officers of the Polish State Police, the Border Protection Corps KOP, Military Police, the Prison Service, officers and soldiers of the Polish Army, intelligence and counterintelligence officers of the Second Department of the General Staff, priests, employees of the judiciary, the fire brigade, foresters and military settlers from the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic. On another island of Lake Seliger, Gorodomla, in 1946‐1953 the Russians held a group of German specialists from Wernher von Braun's team, who, under the direction of Sergei Korolev, worked on Russian missiles. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23])

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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