function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Lublin diocesemore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

date and place
of death

03.09.1945

Potok Górnyform.: Potok Ordynacki
today: Potok Górny gm., Biłgoraj pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]

details of death

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Poles (?)

sites and events

DL ZamoscClick to display the description, DL BiłgorajClick to display the description, DL ZwierzyniecClick to display the description, «Aktion Zamość»Click to display the description, GeneralgouvernementClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

23.08.1875

Zaklikówtoday: Zaklików gm., Stalowa Wola pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1898

positions held

sites and events
descriptions

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” (Eng. „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])

DL Biłgoraj: Germ. Durchgangslager Biłgoraj (Eng. Transit Camp), established by the Germans in 04.1944 for the displaced, pacified population of the Zamość region, Russian and communist troops (parachuted by the approaching Russians beyond the front line) and Polish partisans (part of Polish Clandestine State) captured during the German anti‐partisan actions of Sturmwind I and Sturmwind II in the Janów forests and the Solska Primeval Forest. About 15,000 people passed through the camp, living on the open space and on bare ground. Operational till 07.1944 and Russian arrival. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.08.21])

DL Zwierzyniec: Germ. Durchgangslager Zwierzyniec (Eng. Transit Camp), set up by Germans in 1940. Initially held Poles selected for slave labour in Germany. From 1942 to 1943 Germ. Aussiedlerlager (Eng. Repatriation Camp) — Poles from Zamojszczyzna region were held captive there — as part of so‐called «Aktion Zamość» during which c. 100‐110 thousands of victims, including c. 30,000 children (part of the genocidal robbery of children targeted for Germanization) were evicted from their homes. On average camp had c. 15,000 prisoners. Altogether c. 24,000 Poles — men, women and children — were held there. In the camp selection was carried out into 5 categories of victims: „WE” — having nording „ratial features”, targetted for „Germanisation” — transported to a special camp in Łódź; „AA” — sent out for slave labour, mainly in Germany; „KI” — children up to 14 years on, targetted for Germanisation in Germany; „KL” — transported to German concentration camps, mainly KL Majdanek and KL Auschwitz (c. 21%); „RD”— above 60 years old, and others, targeted for work for German colonizers. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19])

«Aktion Zamość»: On 11.1942, the Germans began «Aktion Zamość» — a series of forced resettlement, an ethnic cleansing actions of the Polish population and pacification of Polish villages carried out in the Zamość region, in the territory of the General Government occupied by Germans, under the Germ. Generalplan Ost GPO (Eng. General Plan East), i.e. the plan of German settlement and Germanization of territories in Central and Eastern Europe. Until 08.1943, it covered a total of 100,000‐110,000 displaced Poles, including 30,000 children (some of them were taken from their parents and semt for a forced Germanization in German families) — most of them passed through the special Germ. UWZ Lager Zamość (Eng. resettlement camp in Zamość), where selection took place, e.g. group IV, children separated from parents. In place of the displaced, it was intended to settle 60,000 German colonists from Bessarabia, Ukraine, Bosnia, Serbia, Slovenia and Russia. In the first phase (28.11.1942‐03.1943) 116 villages were forcibly displaced — the displacements were carried out by Germ. Schutzpolizei units or the gendarmerie, with the help of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police collaborating with Germany; in the second, as part of the so‐called Aktion Werwolf (06.1943‐08.1943) — 171 villages — the displacements were supervised by Wehrmacht and Waffen‐SS units, supported by the employees of UWZ Lager Zamość. As a result of the actions of the Polish resistance movement — during the so‐called Zamość Uprising, Polish partisans fought several large battles with the overwhelming German forces — 293 villages were displaced out of the 696 planned. In some villages Germans settled resettled Ukrainians — during the so‐called Ukraineraktion — under control of collaborating with Germans Ukrainian Support Committees among others. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.08.20], journals.umcs.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.08.20])

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])

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.miesiecznik.znak.com.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.08.14], www.niedziela.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.08.14]
original images:
commons.wikimedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.06.05], commons.wikimedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.06.05]