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surname

WÓJTOWICZ

forename(s)

Vincent (pl. Wincenty)

function

religious cleric

creed

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

congregation

Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer CSsRmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

(i.e. Redemptorists)

diocese / province

Polish Province CSsR

date and place
of death

08.07.1940

Zamośćtoday: Zamość gm., Zamość pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.07]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of World War II, after start of the German occupation, arrested by the Germans on 03.05.1940 in the Exaltation of the Holy Cross parish in Horyszów Polski (c. 10 km from the seat of deanery, Zamość) — together with his co‑friar, Fr John Jakubowski — after the first Friday of the month service, organized by the friars (who were substituting for the parish priest who was on leave).

The reason for the arrest was the particularly solemn nature of the service and its patriotic overtones (which was related to the Polish national holiday, cancelled by the German occupier, that fell on that day), emphasized by the singing of the Marian song „Serdeczna Matko” (Eng. „Loving Mother”) — to the tune of the church anthem „Boże, coś Poland” (Eng. „Oh God who has saved Poland”) banned by the Germans — as the accommodating Ukrainian nationalists reported to the Germans.

Transported to Zamość and held there in DL Zamosc (Rotunda) transit camp.There also, together with Fr Jakubowski, murdered — according to some sources, shot on the basis of sentence passed by a genocidal Germ. Standgericht (Eng. summary court): death sentences were most often issued without interrogation and in the absence of the accused.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans / Ukrainians

date and place
of birth

15.01.1909

Krysovychitoday: Mostyska urban hrom., Yavoriv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]

alt. dates and places
of birth

08.08.1940

religious vows

02.08.1929 (temporary)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

12.08.1934

positions held

till 1940

friar — Zamośćtoday: Zamość gm., Zamość pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
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⋄ monastery, Redemptorists CSsR

friar — KrakówPodgórze neighorhood
today: part od XIII District, Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland

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⋄ Congregation's house („in Podgórze”), Redemptorists CSsR

friar — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ Congregation's house (at Karolkowa Str.), Redemptorists CSsR

till 1934

student — Tuchówtoday: Tuchów gm., Tarnów pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ Higher Theologica Seminary, i.e. Studentate, monastery, Redemptorists CSsR

1928 – 02.08.1929

novitiate — Mostyskatoday: Mostyska urban hrom., Yavoriv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.11.20]
⋄ monastery, Redemptorists CSsR

others related
in death

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murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

DL Zamosc: Germ. „Gefangenen Durchgangslager Sicherheitspol Zamosc” (Eng. „Prisoner of War Transition Camp of the Security Police”) — German transit concentration camp, prison and remand center for the population of the Zamość region (including many children), founded on 19.06.1940 in Rotunda, a former fortifications built by the Russian occupier in the 19th century century, in which 20 cells with an area of 20 m2 each were created around the courtyard. Initially, it held Poles arrested as part of the Germ. „Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion” (pl. „Extraordinary Pacific Action”), i.e. «AB‑aktion» — part of the wider genocidal extermination of the Polish intelligentsia operation, Germ. «Intelligenzaktion» — carried out in the General Governorate. From there they were transported to KL Sachsenhausen and KL Dachau concentration camps. Later members of the Polish resistance movement (representatives of the Polish Underground State), among others, were held there. Those detained were beaten and tortured. Since 1942, the place of collective executions of many Poles — earlier, individual executions were only carried out. In total, the Germans held approximately 50,000 Poles in DL Zamosc and murdered approximately 6,000–8,000 of them. In 1943, the Germans began digging up graves and burning the bodies, and their ashes were thrown into the river moat around the Rotunda building. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.10.05]
, muzeum-zamojskie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
)

General Governorate: A separate administrative territorial region set up by the Germans in 1939 after defeat of Poland, which included German‑occupied part of Polish territory that was not directly incorporate into German state. Created as the result of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, in a political sense, was to recreate the German idea of 1915 (after the defeat of the Russians in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915 during World War I) of establishing a Polish enclave within Germany (also called the General Governorate at that time). It was run by the Germans till 1945 and final Russian offensive, and was a part of so–called Big Germany — Grossdeutschland. Till 31.07.1940 formally known as Germ. Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete (Eng. General Governorate for occupied Polish territories) — later as simply niem. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate). From 07.1941 expanded to include district Galicia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]
)

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 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 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.katedra.zamosc.opoka.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.01.16]
, www.niedziela.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.01.16]
, www.awodka.netClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.06.07]
, miesiecznik.znak.com.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]

bibliographical:
Mysterium iniquitatis. Clergy and religious of the Latin rite murdered by Ukrainian nationalists in 1939‑1945”, Fr Józef Marecki, Institute of National Remembrance IPN, Kraków 2020
original images:
www.awodka.netClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.06.07]

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