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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland
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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland
XX century (1914 – 1989)
personal data
surname
BRZÓSKA
surname
versions/aliases
BRZÓZKA
forename(s)
Hedwig (pl. Jadwiga)
function
nun
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
congregation
Congregation of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul (Daughters of Charity - FdlC)more on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
date and place of death
08.03.1943
KL Auschwitzconcentration camp
today: Oświęcim, Oświęcim gm., Oświęcim pow., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.09]
alt. dates and places of death
06.03.1943
details of death
After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the II World War, after start of German occupation and after eviction of Congregation's nuns from the St Vincent hospital in Gdynia in 09.1939, moved to other Congregation's house in Chełmno (Culm).
There arrested by the Germans on 28.07.1941.
Jailed for months in Chełmno and Fordon prisons.
Finally transported to KL Auschwitz concentration camp where she perished — „offering her life for life of Sr Wybicka, house treasurer” (prob. Sr Anne Wybicka, arrested by the Germans earlier but in 08.1941 released though soon after perished).
cause of death
murder
perpetrators
Germans
date and place of birth
02.04.1895
Kwilcztoday: Kwilcz gm., Międzychód pow., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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positions held
1939 – 1941
nun {Chełmnotoday: Chełmno urban gm., Chełmno pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.25], Congregation's house, Congregation of Daughters of Charity}
1929 – 1939
nun {Gdyniatoday: Gdynia city pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02], Congregation's house, Congregation of Daughters of Charity}, ministry in St Vincent hospital
others related in death
CZESZEWSKAClick to display biography Joanna Helen, DĄBROWSKAClick to display biography Helen, PIĄTKOWSKAClick to display biography Victoria, WYBICKAClick to display biography Anne
murder sites
camps (+ prisoner no)
KL Auschwitz: German KL Auschwitz concentration camp (Germ. Konzentrationslager) and death camp (Germ. Vernichtungslager) camp was set up by Germans around 27.01.1940 n. Oświęcim, on the German territory (initially in Germ. Provinz Schlesien — Silesia Province; and from 1941 Germ. Provinz Oberschlesien — Upper Silesia Province). Initially mainly Poles were interned. From 1942 it became the centre for holocaust of European Jews. Part of the KL Auschwitz concentration camps’ complex was death camp (Germ. Vernichtungslager) KL Auschwitz II Birkenau, located not far away from the main camp. There Germans murder possibly in excess of million people, mainly Jews, in gas chambers. Altogether In excess of 400 priests and religious went through the KL Auschwitz, approx. 40% of which were murdered (mainly Poles). (more on: www.meczennicy.pelplin.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.07.06])
Fordon (prison): German prison for women. Upon completion of the sentence, in a very harsh conditions, women were transported to KL Auschwitz and KL Ravensbrück concentration camps. In total c. 6,300 inmates — Poles and Jews — were incarcerated in Fordon, including dozens of Polish clandestine resistance activists. After commencement of Russian occupation in 1945 harsh Commi‑Nazi prison for women where many Polish independence fighters were held captive. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31])
Chełmno: Detention centre run by Germans. Death sentences were probably carried out there. In particular in 1939–40 the prison was used to jail, as a part of „Intelligenzaktion” – extermination of Polish intelligentsia in Pomerania – Polish intelligentsia from Chełmno county prior to sending them to mass execution sites and concentration camps. (more on: www.sw.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.10.05])
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 II World War 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])
sources
personal:
www.harmeze.franciszkanie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.12.28], www.nadmorski24.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.12.28]
bibliograhical:, „A martyrology of Polish clergy under German occupation, 1939‑45”, Fr Szołdrski Vladislaus CSSR, Rome 1965,
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