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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

POLEWKA

surname
versions/aliases

POLEFKA

forename(s)

Bernard

function

religious cleric

creed

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

congregation

Society of the Divine Word (ie. Verbite Fathers) SVDmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

(i.e. Verbites, Divine Word Missionaries, Steyler Missionaries)

date and place
of death

21.12.1942

Hatunn. Kaifeng
today: Kaifeng pref., Henan prov., China

details of death

With one of his Chinese colaborators went to Hatun rural village n. Kaifeng to celebrate St Thomas's day.

There captured by one of the Chinese gangs (prob. communist, from so‑called People's Liberation Army — formally Henan province, in part of China not yet occupied by the Japanese, was then under nationalist rule).

Forced to dig his own grave.

Pushed into it, with his help, and buried alive.

According to some of the sources the capture took place after provocative anti–government leaflets were put down.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Chinese

date and place
of birth

17.05.1910

Borektoday: Krapkowice gm., Krapkowice pov., Opole voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth

Bobrek-Bytomtoday: Bytom city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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religious vows

1933 (temporary)
08.09.1938 (permanent)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

24.08.1939 (Maria EnzersdorfSt Gabriel missionhouse
today: Mödling dist., Lower Austria state, Austria

more on
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)

positions held

c. 1940 – 1942

priest — Xinxiangtoday: Xinxiang pref., Henan prov., China
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⋄ Missionhouse, Verbites SVD

from 1940

friar — Taikiachwangtoday: Wangzhuang/Jiazhuang, Rencheng dist., Jining pref., Shandong prov., China ⋄ Missionhouse, Verbites SVD — preparations for the mission, Chinese language classes

1933 – 1939

student — Maria Enzersdorftoday: Mödling dist., Lower Austria state, Austria
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⋄ philosophy and theology, Higher Theological Seminary in St Gabriel Missionhouse, Verbites SVD

1932 – 1934

novitiate — Maria Enzersdorftoday: Mödling dist., Lower Austria state, Austria
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⋄ St Gabriel Missionhouse, Verbites SVD

20.04.1925 – 14.05.1932

pupil — Nysatoday: Nysa gm., Nysa pov., Opole voiv., Poland
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⋄ Minor Theological Seminary (gymnasium) in Holy Cross Mission House, Verbites SVD

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

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
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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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sources

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bibliographical:
Opole Silesia clergy's martyrology during Silesian Uprisings and the II World War”, Fr Andrew Hanich, Opole 2019
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