function

religious cleric

creed

Armenian Catholic Church
more on: en.wikipedia.org [access: 2013.05.19]

congregation

Society of Jesus (Jesuits - SI)
more on: en.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Lviv archdiocese
more on: en.wikipedia.org [access: 2013.05.19]
Greater Poland-Mazovian province SI

date and place of death

28.10.1944

KL Mauthausen
Mauthausen, Perg dist., Salzburg, Austria

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the II World War, after start of Russian occupation, cross over in 1940 the border to Hungary. There worked in a Citizens' Committee for Support of Polish Refugees in Hungary that among others rescued c. 5,000 Polish Jews. Clandestine activist — under nom‑de‑guerre — „Frie” and „Kowalski” — in liaison with „Musketeers” and Catholic Poland Liberation Front FOP resistance organizations (part of Polish Clandestine State). Helped Poles to cross border to Hungary (from Lviv in Russian, and later German, hands to Budapest) as a courier (till 1944). Collected information passed to other countries, e.g. to Rome. Arrested by the Germans on 19.03.1944 in Budapest after German invasion of Hungary. Jailed in Budapest prison. Tortured. Finally Transported to KL Mauthausen concentration camp (part of KL Mauthausen–Gusen concentration camps’ complex concentration camp) where was murdered — executed.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Germans

date and place of birth

12.11.1904

Mohyliv-Podilskyi
Vinnytsia obl., Ukraine

alt. dates and places of birth

13.11.1904

presbyter (holy orders)/
ordination

08.06.1934 (Rome)

positions held

vicar of Łysiec n. Stanisławów parish (till 1940), from Congregation retired on 10.07.1938, f. superior of Albertyn monastery — hegumen, Orthodox and Latin churches founder, f. friar at Albertyn monastery — master of novices, f. theology student in Rome (1930‑4), f. philosophy student in Vals in France (1928‑30) and Cracow (1927‑8), in Congregation in Stara Wieś monastery from 01.07.1921

others related in death

AGOPSOWICZ Bogdan, BOGDANOWICZ de ROSCO Adam Henry, KAJETANOWICZ Dennis (Fr Roman), PRYLIŃSKI Leszek

murder sites
camps (+ prisoner no)

KL Mauthausen: „Grade III” (niem. „Stufe III”) camp, part of KL Mauthausen–Gusen complex, intended for the „Incorrigible political enemies of the Reich”. The prisoners slaved at a nearby granite quarry, but also in local private companies. Set up in 08.1938 initially served as a prison camp for common criminals, prostitutes and other categories of „Incorrigible Law Offenders”, but on 08.05.1939 was converted into a labour camp for political prisoners. (more on:  en.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.03.10])

KL Mauthausen-Gusen: A large group of German concentration camps set up around the villages of Mauthausen and Gusen in Upper Austria, c. 30 km east of Linz, operational from 1938 till 05.1945. Over time it became of the largest labour camp complexes in the German–controlled part of Europe encompassing four major camps concentration camps (Mauthausen, Gusen I, Gusen II and Gusen III) and more than 50 sub–camps where inmates slaved in quarries (the granite extracted, previously used to pave the streets of Vienna, was intended for a complete reconstruction of major German towns according to Albert Speer plans), munitions factories, mines, arms factories and Me 262 fighter–plane assembly plants. The complex served the needs of the German war machine and also carried out extermination through labour. Initially did not have a its own gas chamber and the intended victims were mostly moved to the infamous Hartheim Castle, 40.7 km east, or killed by lethal injection and cremated in the local crematorium. Later a van with the exhaust pipe connected to the inside shuttled between Mauthausen and Gusen. In 12.1941 a permanent gas chamber was built. C. 122,000‑360,000 of prisoners perished. Many Polish priests were held, including those captured during the program of extermination of Polish intelligentsia („Intelligenzaktion”). The camp complex was founded and run as a source for cheap labour for private enterprise. (more on:  en.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.03.10], en.wikipedia.org [access: 2014.03.10])

Help to the Jews: During II World War on the Polish occupied territories Germans forbid to give any support to the Jews under penalty of death. Hundreds of Polish priests and religious helped the Jews despite this official sanction. Many of them were caught and murdered. (more on: www.naszdziennik.pl [access: 2013.08.31])

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 II World War in 09.1939. „The 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.org [access: 2015.09.30])

sources

personal:
www.lwow.com.pl [access: 2013.10.05], www.sejm-wielki.pl [access: 2013.10.05], archive.today [access: 2021.05.06]
bibliograhical:
„Jesuits on Polish and Lithuanian territory knowledge encyclopedia, 1564‑1995”, Fr Louis Grzebień SI (editor), WAM Printing House, Cracow 1996
original images:
www.sprawiedliwi.org.pl [access: 2014.10.31]