function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Włocławek diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]
Włocławek ie. Kalisz diocese
Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.12.20]

academic distinctions

Theology MA

honorary titles

Ten Years of Independence Medalmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.10.13]

date and place of death

20.03.1942

Zgierztoday: Zgierz urban gm., Zgierz pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18

details of death

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

date and place of birth

23.10.1884

Wilczogóratoday: Wilczyn gm., Konin pow., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18

presbyter (holy orders)/
ordination

13.06.1913

positions held

others related in death

BARTCZAKClick to display biography Vladislav (Bro. Theodore), BINIEWICZClick to display biography John, GOŁĘBIOWSKIClick to display biography Joseph, GORAJECKIClick to display biography Michael, HERBICHClick to display biography Henry Joseph Adam, ŁOPUSZYŃSKIClick to display biography Casimir Roman, MAKOWSKIClick to display biography Francis (Bro. Simon), MIROCHNAClick to display biography Steven Marian (Fr Julian), MOŻEJKOClick to display biography Joseph (Bro. Albert Mary), NIEWĘGŁOWSKIClick to display biography Stanislaus, NOWACKIClick to display biography Octavian Mieczyslav Boleslaus, ŚWIEŻEWSKIClick to display biography Casimir, ZAWADZKIClick to display biography Joseph

murder sites
camps (+ prisoner no)

Zgierz (1942 murder): On 20.03.1942 Germans murdered in a public execution in Zgierz 100 Poles — 96 men and 4 women, held in Łódź prisons. It was the largest such execution in German Warthegau province (occupied Greater Poland), perpetrated in retribution for shooting of two Gestapo men by Polish resistance Home Army AK (part of Polish Clandestine State) fighter. C. 6,000 inhabitants of Zgierz were forced to watch it. (more on: ipn.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2016.03.14)

Łódź (Sterling): German penal institution and investigative prison w Łodzi, place of mass executons of Poles and Jews. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2015.09.30)

EtG Radegast: Resettlement camp (as part of German resettlement „program” for Poles in 1939), then co–functioning with transit–concentration camp (during genocidal German Intelligenzaktion Litzmannstadt in 1939‑40), finally changed into Germ. Erweitertes Polizeigefängnis (Eng. Expanded Police prison), in Radogoszcz n. Łódź, operational from 1939 till 1945, for Poles from Łódź region. Probably in excess of 40,000 people were held there. For religious this was a transit camp before transfer to KL Dachau concentration camp. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2015.09.30)

Kalisz: German political police Gestapo detention centre and prison organized by Germans in the building of a former public school at contemporaty 3rd May Str. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2013.08.17)

03.1941 arrests (Kalisz): In 02‑03.1941 in Kalisz and vicinity Germans conducted mass arrests of Poles (c. 400 people), under the pretext of a beating of German policeman local Polish population was blamed of. Among the apprehended were people (c. 85) suspected of participation in Polish clandestine resistance National Unity Organisation OJN, belonging to National Fighting Organization NOB (part of Polish Clandestine State). Among those arrested on 04‑06.03.1941 were at least 9 priests and 4 religious friars and many of their parishioners. At least two of them were subsequently tried by German Sondergericht (Eng. special court) and sentenced to death. 204 prisoners among whom 65 were linked to OJN activities were on 02.05.1941 transported to KL Auschwitz concentration camp. Only 34 survived. All the arrested priests and friars perished. In retribution Germans prohibited activities of Conventual Franciscans in Warthegau province (Greater Poland). (more on: www.info.kalisz.plClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2016.03.14)

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. 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 webpageaccess: 2015.09.30)

sources

personal:
spwilczyn.szkolnastrona.plClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2021.12.18, www.muzeumtradycji.plClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2014.01.16, ipn.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2016.03.14, www.hbquik.comClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2014.01.16
bibliograhical:, „Victims of German crime among Włocławek diocese clergy”, Fr Stanislau Librowski, „Włocławek Diocese Chronicle”, 07‑08.1947,
original images:
panaszonik.blogspot.comClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2015.09.30, panaszonik.blogspot.comClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2015.09.30, www.spycimierz.plClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2014.01.16