Roman Catholic
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
CZYŻEWSKI
forename(s)
Alphonse (pl. Alfons)
function
religious cleric
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
congregation
Society of Jesus (Jesuits - SI)more on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Greater Poland-Mazovian province SI
date and place
of death
16.11.1953
Krasnoealso: Krasnoe on Usha river
today: Krasnoe ssov., Maladzyechna dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2023.01.18]
details of death
Participant, prob. as a soldier of Russian army, of the World War I.
After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II ministered in Wilno diocese, initially prob. in the Żemłosław property of Margrave Jane Umiastowska.
After the Russian occupation began, the Russians created a sovkhoz on the estate, and they organized an office in the palace — then moved to Opsa, where helped in the pastoral ministry.
After the German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, the Russians, and the start of the German occupation, ministered as chaplain to the partisan units of Polish resistance Home Army AK (part of Polish Clandestine State).
After German defeat and start of another Russian occupation arrested by the Russians on 31.10.1947 prob. in Kiryanovtsi or nearby Bierdaŭka.
Jailed in Grodno prison.
On 02.03.1948 sentenced by the Russian genocidal MVD court to 10 years of slave labour in Russian concentration camps — Gulag.
As a result of an appeal of 05.03.1948 sentence go reduced to 6 years of slave labour.
Imprisoned in Minsk and Orsza.
Next transferred to KarLag concentration camp, Orsk Station, Nowostroick, in southern Siberia.
After sentence „completion” released in 1953.
On 15.11.1953 arrived at Krasne parish n. Minsk in Belarus where his co‑religious Jesuit ministered.
Next day perished from heart attack.
cause of death
extermination
perpetrators
Russians
date and place
of birth
28.04.1897
Kielcetoday: Kielce city pov., Holy Cross voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth
28.04.1896
Możen. Vitebsk
today: Belarus
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
23.06.1935 (Lublintoday: Lublin city pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
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positions held
1941 – 1947
priest {parish: Gavyatoday: Lipnishki ssov., Ivye dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.11.09], Transfiguration of the Lord; dean.: Lidatoday: Lida dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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1944 – 1947
administrator {parish: Kiryanovtsytoday: Bierdaŭka ssov., Lida dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.11.09], Holy Trinity; dean.: Lidatoday: Lida dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.09.29]}, also: chaplain of the nearby church in Bierdaŭka
1943 – 1944
priest {parish: Lidatoday: Lida dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.09.29], main parish Exaltation of the Holy Cross; dean.: Lidatoday: Lida dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.09.29]}, dean assistant
till c. 1941
priest {parish: Opsatoday: Opsa ssov., Braslaw dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.11.09], St John the Baptist; dean.: Braslawtoday: Braslaw dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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1938 – 1939
friar {parish: Subbotnikitoday: Subbotniki ssov., Ivye dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.11.09], St Ladislaus the King and Martyr; chapel: Zhemyslavltoday: Subbotniki ssov., Ivye dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.11.09], Palace's chapel; residence, Jesuits SI; dean.: Vishnyevatoday: Vishnyeva ssov., Valozhyn dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.09.29]}, in the palace in Zhemyslavl of Countess Janina Umiastowska (died 1941), in her will conferred to Jesuits
c. 1935 – 1937
friar {Lublintoday: Lublin city pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.08.20], Theological Department („Bobolanum” college), St Peter the Apostle monastery, Jesuits SI}, librarian
1931 – 1935
student {Lublintoday: Lublin city pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.08.20], theology, Theological Department („Bobolanum” college), Jesuits SI}
till 1931
student {Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07], philosophy, college (Lat. Collegium Maximum SS. Cordis Iesu), 26 Kopernik Str., Jesuits SI}
1928 – 1929
friar {PinskPinsk 4th district
today: Pinsk city dist., Brest reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.07.16], St Stanislaus the Bishop and Martyr monastery, Jesuits SI}, student of the last years of gymnasium
1926
resident {Slonimtoday: part fo Slonim, Slonim dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.09.29], Sacred Heart of Jesus monastery of the Byzantine–Slavic rite (known as Eastern Mission), Jesuits SI}
28.04.1926
accession {Jesuits SI}
murder sites
camp
(+ prisoner no)
Novotroytsk: Russian concentration camp and forced labour camp (part of Gulag penal system).
KarLag: Russian concentration camp and forced labour camp n. Karaganda in Kazakhstan. One of the largest in Gulag penal system, operational in 1930‑59 (though even later parts of the camp were used as a new concentration camp and prison). Stretched over 300 by 200 km, centered in Dolinka village, c. 45 km from Karaganda. One of the goals was creation a large food base for the developing coal and metallurgical industries of Kazakhstan. 10,000 to 65,000 (in 1949) prisoners — including women and children many of whom perished — were held in the camp at any one time. In total over 1,000,000 inmates slaved in KarLag over its history. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Gulag: Network of Russian slave labour concentration camps. At any given time up to 12 mln inmates where held in them, milions perished. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Minsk: Russian prison. In 1937 site of mass murders perpetrated by the Russians during a „Great Purge”. After Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II place of incarceration of many Poles, In 06.1941, under attack by Germans, Russians murdered there a group of Polish prisoner kept in Central and co‑called American prisons in Mińsk. The rest were driven towards Czerwień in a „death march” (10,000‑20,000 prisoners perished), into Russia. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17])
Grodno: Prison used both by the Russians (in 1920, 1939‑41 and from 1944) and the Germans (in 1941‑4). Thousands of Poles were jailed there.
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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sources
personal:
www.jezuici.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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[access: 2013.01.26], ru.openlist.wikiClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.08.05], pawet.netClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], slowo.grodnensis.byClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.05.09]
bibliograhical:, „Lexicon of Polish clergy repressed in USSR in 1939‑1988”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin, „Jesuits on Polish and Lithuanian territory knowledge encyclopedia, 1564‑1995”, Fr Louis Grzebień SI (editor), WAM Printing House, Cracow 1996,
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