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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

ZNAMIROWSKI

forename(s)

Casimir Peter Alexander (pl. Kazimierz Piotr Aleksander)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Częstochowa diocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]

Włocławek i.e. Kalisz diocesemore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.10.13]

date and place
of death

18.03.1945

KL Mittelbau‐Doraconcentration camp
today: n. Nordhausen, Nordhausen dist., Thuringia state, Germany

more on
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alt. dates and places
of death

02.1945

details of death

After German invasion of Poland on 01.09.1939 (Russians invaded Poland 17 days later) and start of the World War II, The Germans seized his parish Garnek on 04.09.1939, without encountering any resistance.

The German occupation began.

A day later, in the nearby village of Kajetanowice, there was an accidental shooting, perhaps caused by inexperienced recruits of the German Wehrmacht.

Despite the fact that no one lost his life, and the unit left the village without losses, the next day, on 06.09.1939, the 42nd Wehrmacht Infantry Regiment entered Kajetanowice and burned the village to the ground.

About 80 Poles died in flames and from German bullets, including many women and children.

It was then that he organized a worthy burial of the victims and arranged for a statue of the Virgin Mary with a cross to be placed at the scene of the crime.

During the occupation, strong units of the Polish resistance movement of the Armed Struggle Union ZWZ and then the Home Army AK (part of the Polish Clandestine State) were established in the area.

Joined AK (a cell operating in Garnek, subordinate to the „Grabie” sub–sub–unit in Gidle belonging to „Kuźnia” unit in Radomsko district, assuming nom‐de‐guerre „Servant”.

In 10.1942 forced by the Germans to chair the quota commission responsible for supplying the Germans with the ordered amount of agricultural products.

When the orders were not complied with, together with members of the commission imprisoned in Gidle.

Sentenced to loss of property.

Released after the farmers of his parish have „paid the dues”.

On 06.01.1944, as a result of denunciation (the informer turned out to be an organist), arrested by the German political police Gestapo — along with, inter alia, his sister, her husband (headmaster) and several other parishioners.

Within two days, the Germans arrested c. 50 people suspected of clandestine resistance activity.

They were all taken to the prison in Częstochowa (Zawodzie district).

From there, all were transported — after several months of investigation and torture — to the KL Groß‐Rosen concentration camp.

There slaved in the camp's spinning mill and in the kitchen.

His sister and her husband died in the camp.

Finally, on c. 10.02.1945, marched — as part of the evacuation of concentration camps in the east, which culminated in the so‐called „death marches” that set off from KL Groß‐Rosen at the beginning of 02.1945 (c. 40,000 prisoners died there, and KL Groß‐Rosen was captured by the Russians on 14.02.1945) — to the KL Mittelbau‐Dora concentration camp.

Prob. got there, but died shortly after (on 23.02.1945 was still on the camp register list).

The last stamp on his camp registers' entries bears the date of 18.03.1945.

prisoner camp's numbers

111131 (KL Mittelbau‐DoraClick to display the description), 30637 (KL Groß‐RosenClick to display the description)

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

KL Mittelbau‐DoraClick to display the description, KL Groß‐RosenClick 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

22.02.1884

Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1908

positions held

1919 – 1944

parish priest — Garnektoday: Kłomnice gm., Częstochowa pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
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⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Gidletoday: Gidle gm., Radomsko pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2020.12.11]
RC deanery — also: prefect of a primary school

1914 – 1919

resident — Kosmówtoday: Ceków‐Kolonia gm., Kalisz pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
⋄ St Lawrence the Deacon and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Kalisztoday: Kalisz city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2020.12.16]
RC deanery — acting („ad interim”) administrator

1914 – 1919

vicar — Zagórówtoday: Zagórów gm., Słupca pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2020.11.01]
⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Słupcatoday: Słupca gm., Słupca pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery — formal posting

1913 – 1914

vicar — Noworadomskotoday: Radomsko /from 1918/, Radomsko urban gm., Radomsko pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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⋄ St Lambert the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Noworadomskotoday: Radomsko /from 1918/, Radomsko urban gm., Radomsko pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1912 – 1913

vicar — Sulejówtoday: Sulejów gm., Piotrków Trybunalski pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2020.11.05]
⋄ St Florian the Martyr RC parish ⋄ Piotrków Trybunalskitoday: Piotrków Trybunalski city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.29]
RC deanery

1909 – 1912

vicar — Kowaltoday: Kowal urban gm., Włocławek pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.19]
⋄ St Ursula the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Włocławektoday: Włocławek city pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1908 – 1909

vicar — Grocholicetoday: district of Bełchatów, Bełchatów urban gm., Bełchatów pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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⋄ All the Saints RC parish ⋄ Piotrków Trybunalskitoday: Piotrków Trybunalski city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.29]
RC deanery

till 1908

student — Włocławektoday: Włocławek city pov., Kuyavia‐Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

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KL Mittelbau‐Dora: German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL, operational from 08.1943 till 11.04.1945 when American troops entered the camp. Set up to provide the slave workforce for an underground military factory „Mittelwerk” — in tunnels of Kohnstein mountain n. Nordhausen town V‐1 and V‐2 rockets were manufactured. Initially functioned as a sub‐camp of KL Buchenwald concentration camp (till summer 1944). Approx. 20,000 prisoner perished (large part of them were brought there at the end of 1944, in „death marches”, from KL Auschwitz), among whom 10,000 during camp evacuation (which also took form of „death marches”) — in 04.1945, right before liberation. Also c. 1,200 prisoners perished during bombardments by the Allied forces. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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KL Groß‐Rosen: Groß‐Rosen (today: Rogoźnica) was a German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL, founded in the summer of 1940 (first transport of prisoners arrived on 02.08.1940). Initially a branch of KL Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In 1944 became a centre of a network of more than 100 camps. Prisoners were forced to slave at nearby granite quarries, on starvation rations. More than 125,000 prisoners were enslaved — 40,000 victims perished. In 1945 — in „death marches” — Germans dragged through the camp thousands of prisoners from the camp’s in east being one by one overrun by the Russians. The camp itself was captured by the Russians on 14.02.1945. (more on: www.gross-rosen.euClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.07.18]
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[access: 2019.02.02]
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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
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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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bibliographical:
Martyrdom of the Polish clergy 1939‐1956”, Bp Bohdan Bejze, Antoni Galiński (ed.) – collection, Łódź Archdiocesan Publishing House, Łódź 1992
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