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05-507 Słomczyn
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Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

BATKO

forename(s)

Alexander (pl. Aleksander)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Płock diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Minsk diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.12.20]

honorary titles

„Cross of Valour”more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

date and place
of death

10.04.1941

Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]

details of death

In 1914, after ordination, went to his home village near Kraków.

After the outbreak of the Polish–Russian war of 1919‑1921, volunteered to join the Polish Army.

Became the chaplain of the 30th Łowicz Infantry Regiment (later the 30th Kaniowski Rifle Regiment) of the 10th Infantry Division.

Participated in the entire combat trail — the defense of Lviv in 1919 (Polish–Ukrainian war); battles with the Ukrainians at Kulparków, Parsenkówka, Zimna Woda and Łapanówka (1919); the Kiev offensive (05.1920), including the clash with the Russians at Kaniv; defense of Warsaw (08.1920), including the battle of Radzymin (15‑16.08.1920), during the so‑called Battle of Warsaw („Miracle on the Vistula”); the lost battle of Horyszów Ruski and Hostynn (c. 31.08.1920); capture of Sokal (11‑13.09.1920).

After the outbreak of World War I and the Russian offensive, cut off from his diocese.

For two years ministered in the Więcławice parish.

To the service in his diocese returned after the Russian defeat in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915 and the retreat of Russian troops to the east.

After German invasion of Poland on 01.09.1939 (Russians invaded Poland 17 days later) and start of the World War II, joined the refuge crowd escaping from advancing Germans and went towards Warsaw.

After a few weeks and start of German occupation, returned to his parish.

Arrested by the Germans on 22.10.1939.

Transported to Rypin prison and from there to Obory transit camp.

Next taken to Grudziądz transit camp.

Released as sick on 16.03.1940.

Returned to his parish but was evicted from rectory.

In 07.1940 crossed over — after getting German permission — to General Governorate, to Warsaw.

There admitted to Holy Ghost hospital where due to traumatic experiences perished shortly afterwards.

cause of death

torment

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

26.02.1889

Sosnowiectoday: Poland

alt. dates and places
of birth

Sosnowiecform.: Sosnowice /till 1920/
today: Sosnowiec city pov., Silesia voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2020.12.11]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

21.06.1914 (Płock cathedralmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
)

positions held

1936 – 1941

parish priest — Osiekform.: also Osiek Rypiński
today: Osiek gm., Brodnica pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Rypintoday: Rypin gm., Rypin pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1930 – 1936

parish priest — Grodziectoday: Czerwińsk nad Wisłą gm., Płońsk pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Bartholomew the Apostle RC parish

1927 – 1930

parish priest — Korzeń Królewskitoday: Łąck gm., Płock pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
⋄ Our Lady of the Rosary RC church ⋄ St Valentine RC parish ⋄ Gąbintoday: Gąbin gm., Płock pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

till 1927

chaplain — Białystoktoday: Białystok city pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.11]
⋄ garrison, Command of the Corps District DOK No. III Grodno, Polish Armed Forces

from 1922

administrator — Popinatoday: Popina ssov., Drahichyn dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary RC chapel ⋄ RC parish ⋄ Kobryntoday: Kobryn dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery — chaplain to the f. military settlers

from c. 1921

prefect — Tarakantoday: part of Imenin, Imenin ssov., Drahichyn dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ State Teachers' Seminary

1921 – 1922

chaplain — Tarakantoday: part of Imenin, Imenin ssov., Drahichyn dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Holy Trinity and St Josaphat the Bishop and Martyr RC church ⋄ Drahichyntoday: Drahichyn dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2023.07.16]
, Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Polish Crown RC parish ⋄ Kobryntoday: Kobryn dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery — chaplain to the f. military settlers, with the powers of the parish priest

c. 1921

chaplain — Zakozeltoday: Zakozel ssov., Drahichyn dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2023.01.18]
Kobryntoday: Kobryn dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery — chaplain to the f. military settlers, with the powers of the parish priest

1919 – 1920

chaplain — Polish Armed Forces — 30th Infantry Regiment of the 10th Infantry Division

1917 – 1919

vicar — Płocktoday: Płock city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC cathedral parish

1917

vicar — Ostrołękatoday: Ostrołęka city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
⋄ Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Ostrołękatoday: Ostrołęka city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
RC deanery

1916 – 1917

vicar — Wieczfnia Kościelnatoday: Wieczfnia Kościelna gm., Mława pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr RC parish

1914 – 1916

priest — Więcławicetoday: Więcławice Stare, Michałowice gm., Kraków pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
⋄ St James the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Mogiłatoday: part of Kraków, Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

1909 – 1914

student — Płocktoday: Płock city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary — also: 1906‑1907

murder sites
camp 
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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]
)

IL Graudenz: As part of «Intelligenzaktion» — physical extermination of Polish intelligentsia from Pomerania — Germans initially in 09.1939 held Poles captive in investigative prison in Grudziądz. After it became too small the genocidal German paramilitary organization Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz organized the Germ. Internierungslager (Eng. internment camp) in the building of the so‑called Borderlands Hostel building at Chopin Str. (on 31.03.1937, before German invasion, it housed 97 boys). In this building Germans held captive 4,000 to 5,000 Poles, including c. 150 local priests and c. 100 teachers and students of the local teachers' seminary. Most of them were subsequently murdered in local forests (Księże Góry, Mniszek‑Grupa), some were taken to concentration camps and 200 boys — residents of the Borderlands Hostel — were after some time deported as slave laborers to Germany. Everything was obviously done in accordance with „German law” — there was an ad hoc Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz kangaroo court in the camp, which „issued sentences” deciding on the fate of imprisoned Poles. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.01.13]
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Obory: From 30.10.1939 till 22.02.1940 in a Carmelite fathers’ convent Germans — German political police Gestapo and members of the genocidal German organization Germ. Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz (Eng. Self‑Defense) collaborating with it — held up to 100 Polish priest from Płock and Chełmno dioceses. After four months of internment — in extremely difficult conditions, in the middle of a very hard winter, without heating or outer clothes, on unchanged straw in cold cells, without food (saved only by the local residents who shared with them their own food), forced to perform forced slave labor — almost everyone was deported to concentration camps: initially KL Stutthof and KL Sachsenhausen. Most of them perished there. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
, www.obory.com.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.12.28]
)

Rypin: Prison for Poles run by Germans in 1939 known as „Torture House”. As a part of «Intelligenzaktion» — aimed at extermination of Polish intelligentsia and ruling classes in Pomerania — Germans jailed there and tortured up to 1,100 victims. They were subsequently murdered either in the prison itself of in mass murder locations in Skrwileńskie and Rusinowskie forests. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
)

«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 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
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, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

Polish-Russian war of 1919—1921: War for independence of Poland and its borders. Poland regained independence in 1918 but had to fight for its borders with former imperial powers, in particular Russia. Russia planned to incite Bolshevik–like revolutions in the Western Europe and thus invaded Poland. Russian invaders were defeated in 08.1920 in a battle called Warsaw battle („Vistula river miracle”, one of the 10 most important battles in history, according to some historians). Thanks to this victory Poland recaptured part of the lands lost during partitions of Poland in XVIII century, and Europe was saved from the genocidal Communism. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
)

Polish-Ukrainian war of 1918—1919: One of the wars for borders of the newly reborn Poland. At the end of 1918 on the former Austro–Hungarian empire’s territory, based on the Ukrainian military units of the former Austro–Hungarian army, Ukrainians waged war against Poland. In particular attempted to create foundation of an independent state and attacked Lviv. Thanks to heroic stance of Lviv inhabitants, in particular young generation of Poles — called since then Lviv eaglets — the city was recaptured by Poles and for a number of months successfully defended against furious Ukrainian attacks. In 1919 Poland — its newly created army — pushed Ukrainian forces far to the east and south, regaining control over its territory. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2017.05.20]
)

sources

personal:
martyrologium.w.interia.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]

bibliographical:
Płock diocese clergy martyrology during II World War 1939‑1945”, Fr Nicholas Marian Grzybowski, Włocławek–Płock 2002
original images:
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[access: 2012.11.23]

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