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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

WIŚNIEWSKI

forename(s)

Longinus (pl. Longin)

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    Commemorative plaque, cathedral basilica, Płock
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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]

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

date and place
of death

18.01.1945

Brwilnotoday: Stara Biała gm., Płock pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]

details of death

From 1927 ministered in the Polish Army as a chaplain (in the rank of chaplain, i.e. captain, from 01.03.

1928, and senior chaplain, i.e. in the rank of major, from 19.03.1938).

In 08.1939 mobilized to the 43rd Bajończyk Legion Rifle Regiment the 13th Infantry Division fighting as part of the „Prusy” Army.

After the German attack on 01.09.1939 on Poland (the Russians invaded Poland 17 days later) and the start of World War II, the division fought in the vicinity of Tomaszów Mazowiecki.

Defended access to the capital.

On 05‐–07.09.1939, the 43rd Infantry Regiment fought in the vicinity of the villages of Wólka Krzykowska, Sangródź and Ujazd, fighting with the units of the German XVI Army Corps, de facto armored corps.

On c. 07.09.1939, the division withdrew behind Pilica.

Later, part of the 43rd Infantry Regiment crossed the Vistula and reached Warsaw — all the time engaged in skirmishes with advancing Germans — on 22.09.1939.

There fought until the fall of the capital on 28.09.1939.

At some point in the campaign taken POW by the Germans.

Escaped and after start of German occupation went into hiding in his family Łętowo village.

There denounced for allegedly having Polish uniform and weapons hiding and arrested by the Germans.

Jailed in Płock prison but released.

In 1941 for a time lived in Kępa Polska village.

Next during German occupation ministered to Woźniki parish and 11 other local parishes without shepherds, arrested or murdered by the Germans.

Finally on 31.07.1944 arrested yet again by the Germans — denounced by a soldier of Własow's Russian army collaborating with Germans (prob. a Ukrainian).

Jailed in Płock.

Tortured.

When he asked a prisoner — who was supposed to be released, but turned out to be a German snitch — to destroy in his presbytery the list of names of people he charitably helped, he was tortured by the Germans and forced to admit that he belonged to a Polish clandestine resistance organization (part of the Polish Underground State).

Placed in prison hospital.

On 28.10.1944 transported out of Płock.

The train stopped in Toruń and stayed there for 7 days.

Next moved to KL Soldau concentration camp.

After 10 days brought back to Płock prison.

Right before Russian advance, after start of Russian winter offensive of 1945 ending the military hostilities of the World War II, taken by the Germans to Brwilno forest and murdered.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

Brwilno forestClick to display the description, KL SoldauClick to display the description, PłockClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

06.07.1893

Łętowotoday: Bodzanów gm., Płock pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth

17.07.1893

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

06.06.1920 (Płocktoday: Płock city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
)

positions held

1942 – 1944

parish priest — Woźnikitoday: Radzanowo gm., Płock pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Michael the Archangel RC parish ⋄ Płocktoday: Płock city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1941

priest — Kępa Polskatoday: Bodzanów gm., Płock pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Clement, the Pope and Martyr RC church ⋄ Zakrzewo Kościelnetoday: Mała Wieś gm., Płock pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
, St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Przasnysztoday: Przasnysz urban gm., Przasnysz pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1927 – 1939

chaplain — Lublintoday: Lublin city pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
⋄ Command of the Corps District DOK No. II Lublin, Polish Armed Forces ⋄ Dubnotoday: Dubno urban hrom., Dubno rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.11.27]
, St John Cantius the Confessor RC parish

1926 – 1927

vicar — Pniewotoday: Zatory gm., Pułtusk pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Pułtusktoday: Pułtusk gm., Pułtusk pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1924 – 1926

vicar — Różantoday: Różań gm., Maków Mazowiecki pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Anne RC parish ⋄ Maków Mazowieckitoday: Maków Mazowiecki urban gm., Maków Mazowiecki pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
RC deanery

1922 – 1924

vicar — Dzierzgowotoday: Dzierzgowo gm., Mława pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Przasnysztoday: Przasnysz urban gm., Przasnysz pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1921 – 1922

vicar — Baranowotoday: Baranowo gm., Ostrołęka pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC church ⋄ St Bartholomew the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Przasnysztoday: Przasnysz urban gm., Przasnysz pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1920 – 1921

vicar — Ciechanówtoday: Ciechanów urban gm., Ciechanów pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC church ⋄ St Joseph RC parish ⋄ Ciechanówtoday: Ciechanów urban gm., Ciechanów pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

till 1920

student — Płocktoday: Płock city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

sites and events
descriptions

Brwilno forest: On 18.01.1945 in the forest by Brwilno village right before Russian advance Germans murdered more than 200 olders and infirm prisoners brought from Płock prison. There was at least one priest among them. (more on: plock.gosc.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.05.09]
, uboot.bloog.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.05.09]
)

KL Soldau: German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL Soldau (in modern Działdowo city) — since the pre‐war Polish Działdowo county was incorporated into Germ. Regierungsbezirk Allenstein (Eng. Olsztyn regency) the camp was located in occupied territories where general German law was in force, i.e. in Germany proper — was founded in 09.1939, when in former barracks of 32nd Infantry Regiment of Polish Army Germans set up a temporary camp for POW captured during September 1939 campaign. In autumn 1939 was also used as police jail. In 1939‐1940 changed into Germ. Durchgangslager für polnische Zivilgefangene (Eng. Transit Camp for Polish Civilians), prior to transport to other concentration camps. In reality it was used then as a place of extermination of Polish intelligentsia within Germ. «Intelligenzaktion» genocidal program and extermination of sick and disabled within «Aktion T4» program. Next in 05.1940 the camp was changed again into Germ. Arbeitserziehungslager (Eng. Work Education Camp), and finally into penal comp for criminal and political prisoners, most of whom were sentenced to death. In 1939‐1941 Germans imprisoned, maltreated and tortured in KL Soldau hundreds of Polish priests and religious. Approx. 80 priests, religious and nuns perished. They were murdered in the camp itself, by a shot into a head, or in places of mass executions in nearby forests — Białuty forest, Malinowo forets, Komorniki. Dates and precise locations of these murders remain unknown. Altogether in KL Soldau approx. 15,000 prisoners were murdered, including thousands victims — patients of psychiatric institutions (within «Aktion T4» plan). (more on: mazowsze.hist.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
, en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.09.02]
)

Płock: In its present location, the prison in Płock was built in 1803 by the Prussians (after the Third Partition of Poland, Płock was initially part of the Prussia). From 1815, it functioned as a Russian prison (among others, the November insurgents were detained there). During World War II, during the German occupation — Płock found itself in the so‐called Germ. Regierungsbezirk Zichenau (Eng. Ciechanów regency), part of the Germ. Provinz Ostpreußen (Eng. East Prussia province) — it was managed by the Germans. The jail ran by the German political police Gestapo was located in a different place — initially in the basement of the present town hall in Płock. From 1941 it was transferred — as an investigative prison — to a building at 1st of May Str., built in 1905. Many of the Polish prisoners were next transported to German concentration camps, mainly KL Soldau, where they perished. After the German defeat, this building was taken over by the Russians, and then by the Polish Commie‐Nazis in the service of the Russian KGB, and treacherous murders of former soldiers of the Polish Clandestine State were prob. carried out there. In 1991, the main prison was visited by Pope St John Paul II, who said to the inmates: „You are condemned, but not doomed”.

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:
www.diecezjaplocka.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]
, www.ordynariat.wp.mil.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.12.28]

bibliographical:
Płock diocese clergy martyrology during II World War 1939‐1945”, Fr Nicholas Marian Grzybowski, Włocławek–Płock 2002
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
original images:
www.katedrapolowa.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.01.16]

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