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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

KARCZYŃSKI

forename(s)

Marian

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Culm (Chełmno) diocesemore on
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[access: 2012.11.23]

honorary titles

Medal of Independencemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.02.02]

honorary canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
(Pelpin cathedralmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
)

date and place
of death

13.10.1944

Zalesie Górnetoday: Piaseczno gm., Piaseczno pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]

details of death

In 09.1901, during Prussian times (one of the partitions of Poland), tried by Germans — as a head, in c. 1897‐1899, of clandestine Polish student self–educational organization in Germ. Königliches Katholisches Gymnasium (Eng. Royal Catholic Gymnasium) in Chełmno — in a so‐called „Toruń Pomeranian and Greater Poland Philomaths trial” and sentenced to 6 weeks in prison. Held in Tczew prison.

After the abdication of the German Emperor William II Hohenzollern on 09.11.1918, after the armistice between the Allies and Germany signed on 11.11.1918 in the HQ wagon in Compiègne, the HQ of French Marshal Ferdinand Foch — which de facto meant the end of World War I; after transfer of the supreme authority over the Polish army to Brigadier Joseph Piłsudski as its commander‐in‐chief — which de facto meant the rebirth of the Polish state — on the rally of Polish population of Starogard Gdański elected the member of Starogard County People's Council, established in response to the self‐disclosure and founding on 11.11.1918 in Poznań, in the Prussian/German part of partitioned Poland, of the Polish People's Council opting for Poland. Delegate to the Polish District Parliament (Seym) in Poznań, at which on 03‐05.12.1918 the delegates from the lands of the Prussian (German) partition, i.e. Greater Poland, Gdańsk Pomerania, Silesia and Warmia and Mazury, expressed, among others, the will to create a united Polish state with access to the sea. In 1919 chairman of the Educational Commission of the County People's Council and organizer of Polish public education in Starogard Gdański.

After German invasion of Poland on 01.09.1939 (Russians invaded Poland 17 days later) and start of the World War II faced with imminent arrival of German troops left his parish with his vicar, Fr John Martneka, and marched as thousands of Poles did towards Warsaw.

Went into hiding and settled in Zalesie Górne n. Warsaw, later in German‐run General Governorate.

Unable not return (his parish found itself belonging to territories directly incorporated in Germany; his vicar, the aforementioned Fr Martenka, who managed to return to the parish prior to closing down of General Governorate borders, was murdered by the Germans; the parish church got closed) and perished in Zalesie.

cause of death

exile

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

GeneralgouvernementClick to display the description, «Intelligenzaktion»Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description, Pomeranian PhilomathsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

02.08.1879

Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.05.06]

alt. dates and places
of birth

02.07.1879

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

22.03.1903 (Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.05.06]
)

positions held

1930 – 1939

dean — Grudziądz / Łasindeanery names/seats
today: Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
RC deanery

1927 – 1939

parish priest — Łasintoday: Łasin gm., Grudziądz pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St Catherine of Alexandria the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Grudziądz / Łasindeanery names/seats
today: Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
RC deanery

till 1939

parish consultor — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.05.06]
⋄ Parish Consultors Council, Diocesan Curia

1920 – till 1927

visitor / inspector of religion education — for Starogard Gdański district, Polish Pomerania

1912 – 1927

curatus/rector/expositus — Dąbrówkatoday: Starogard Gdański gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ Exaltation of the Holy Cross RC church ⋄ Bobowotoday: Bobowo gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.02.14]
, St Adalbert the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Starogard Gdańskitoday: Starogard Gdański gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07]
RC deanery

c. 1912

administrator — Bobowotoday: Bobowo gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.02.14]
⋄ St Adalbert the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Starogard Gdańskitoday: Starogard Gdański gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.07]
RC deanery

vicar — Sierakowicetoday: Sierakowice gm., Kartuzy pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St Martin and St John Nepomucene RC parish ⋄ Mirachowotoday: Kartuzy gm., Kartuzy pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

vicar — Lubichowotoday: Lubichowo gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St James the Elder the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Starogard Gdańskitoday: Starogard Gdański gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.07]
RC deanery

vicar — Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery

vicar — Radoszkitoday: Bartniczka gm., Brodnica pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ St Lawrence the Martyr and St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish

from 1903

vicar — Niemieckie Brzozietoday: Brzozie Lubawskie, Kurzętnik gm., Nowe Miasto Lubawskie pov., Warmia‐Masuria voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish

1903 – 1925

membership — Toruńtoday: Toruń city pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.20]
⋄ scientific society

1899 – 1903

student — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.05.06]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

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sites and events
descriptions

Generalgouvernement: After the Polish defeat in the 09.1939 campaign, which was the result of the Ribbentrop‐Molotov Pact and constituted the first stage of World War II, and the beginning of German occupation in part of Poland (in the other, eastern part of Poland, the Russian occupation began), the Germans divided the occupied Polish territory into five main regions. In two of them new German provinces were created, two other were incorporated into other provinces. However, the fifth part was treated separately, and in a political sense it was supposed to recreate the German idea from 1915 (during World War I, after the defeat of the Russians in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915) of creating a Polish enclave within Germany. Illegal in the sense of international law, i.e. Hague Convention, and public law, managed by the Germans according to separate laws — especially established for the Polish Germ. Untermenschen (Eng. subhumans) — till the Russian offensive in 1945 it constituted the Germ. Großdeutschland (Eng. Greater Germany). Till 31.07.1940 formally called Germ. Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete (Eng. General Government for the occupied Polish lands) — later simply Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate), as in the years 1915‐1918. From 07.1941, i.e. after the German attack on 22.06.1941 against the erstwhile ally, the Russians, it also included the Galicia district, i.e. the Polish pre‐war south‐eastern voivodeships. A special criminal law was enacted and applied to Poles and Jews, allowing for the arbitrary administration of the death penalty regardless of the age of the „perpetrator”, and sanctioning the use of collective responsibility. After the end of the military conflict of the World War UU, the government of the Germ. Generalgouvernement was recognized as a criminal organization, and its leader, governor Hans Frank, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and executed. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]
)

«Intelligenzaktion»: (Eng. „Action Intelligentsia”) — extermination program of Polish elites, mainly intelligentsia, executed by the Germans right from the start of the occupation in 09.1939 till around 05.1940, mainly on the lands directly incorporated into Germany but also in the so‐called General Governorate where it was called «AB‐aktion». During the first phase right after start of German occupation of Poland implemented as Germ. Unternehmen „Tannenberg” (Eng. „Tannenberg operation”) — plan based on proscription lists of Poles worked out by (Germ. Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen), regarded by Germans as specially dangerous to the German Reich. List contained names of c. 61,000 Poles. Altogether during this genocide Germans methodically murdered c. 50,000 teachers, priests, landowners, social and political activists and retired military. Further 50,000 were sent to concentration camps where most of them perished. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.04]
)

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 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
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)

Pomeranian Philomaths: Secret societies of Polish youth, aiming at self‐education, patriotic in form and content, functioning 1830‐1920, mainly in secondary schools — gymnasia — in Pomerania around Vistula river (Gdańsk Pomerania and Chełmno county), in Prussian‐occupied Polish territories (one of the partitions of Poland). On 08.01.1901 Germans conducted a series of interrogations of students at Chełmno, Brodnica and Toruń gymnasiums. On 09‐12.09.1901 the first of court trials of Polish students from those gymnasiums and students of Theological Seminary in Pelplin was held in Toruń. 1 person was sentenced to 3 months in prison, 1 to 2 months, 3 to 6 weeks, 7 to 3 weeks, 2 to 2 weeks, 19 to a week, 2 to 1 day, 10 were reprimanded. 15 were cleared. More definitive penalties were relegations from the schools with so‐called wolf’s ticket, forbidding sentenced students to continue secondary and higher studies in Prussia (Germany). Among those penalized were a few future Catholic priests — those were able to continue their education for the Chełmno diocese bishop, Bp August Rosentreter, refused to relegate students from Theological Seminary. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18]
)

sources

personal:
www.niedziela.diecezja.torun.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.01.16]

bibliographical:
Biographical dictionary of priests of the Chełmno diocese ordained in the years 1821‐1920”, Henry Mross, Pelplin, 1995
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