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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)

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surname

DAMA

forename(s)

Felix (pl. Feliks)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Culm (Chełmno) diocesemore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2012.11.23]

date and place
of death

16.10.1939

Szpęgawski foresttoday: Starogard Gdański gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2018.09.23]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of German occupation, arrested by the Germans on 13.10.1939.

Jailed in Starogard Gdański prison.

Tortured.

On 16.10.1939 murdered: 30 battered priests were ordered to take off their shoes and climb down — in fours — into a ditch.

The first had to lie down with their hands folded on foreheads or on the ground, the following were forced to lie down on the bloodied bodies of co‑religious.

Then they were shot into the base of the neck.

Those that survived initial shooting were massacred with rifle butts.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

21.09.1908

Wielki Komorsktoday: Warlubie gm., Świecie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

23.12.1933 (Pelpin cathedralmore on
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[access: 2014.11.14]
)

positions held

1938 – 1939

vicar — Skórcztoday: Skórcz urban gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ All the Saints RC parish ⋄ Osiektoday: Osiek gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery

1938

vicar — Sępólno Krajeńskietoday: Sępólno Krajeńskie gm., Sępólno Krajeńskie pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St Bartholomew the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Kamień Pomorskitoday: Kamień Krajeński, Kamień Krajeński gm., Sępólno Krajeńskie pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery

1938

administrator — Szczukatoday: Brodnica gm., Brodnica pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St Fabian and St Sebastian the Martyrs RC parish ⋄ Brodnicatoday: Brodnica urban gm., Brodnica pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery — acting („ad interim”)

1935 – 1938

vicar — Brodnicatoday: Brodnica urban gm., Brodnica pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ St Catherine of Alexandria the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Brodnicatoday: Brodnica urban gm., Brodnica pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

1934 – 1935

administrator — Wielka Łąkatoday: Kowalewo Pomorskie gm., Golub–Dobrzyń pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St Catherine and St Margaret RC parish ⋄ Bierzgłowotoday: Łubianka gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.05.06]
RC deanery — acting („ad interim”)

1934

vicar — Wielka Łąkatoday: Kowalewo Pomorskie gm., Golub–Dobrzyń pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ St Catherine and St Margaret RC parish ⋄ Bierzgłowotoday: Łubianka gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.05.06]
RC deanery

1934

vicar — Piecetoday: Kaliska gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ Sacred Heart of Jesus RC parish ⋄ Czersktoday: Czersk gm., Chojnice pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery

1929 – 1933

student — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.05.06]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

biography (own resources)

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others related
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BAUMGARTClick to display biography Felix, BAUMGARTClick to display biography Francis, BŁĘDZKIClick to display biography Francis Raphael, BOROWSKIClick to display biography Leo, CHYLIŃSKIClick to display biography Gratian, CHYLIŃSKIClick to display biography Henry January, CZAPLIŃSKIClick to display biography Francis Vladislav, DĄBROWSKIClick to display biography Boleslav John, DOERINGClick to display biography John, DRAPIEWSKIClick to display biography Marian John, GORDONClick to display biography Boleslav, GÓRNYClick to display biography Alphonse Francis, HEYKEClick to display biography Leo, HOFFMANNClick to display biography Stanislav, JASIŃSKIClick to display biography Victor Luke, KARPIŃSKIClick to display biography Vladislav, KOZIORZEMSKIClick to display biography Bruno, KRZYŻANOWSKIClick to display biography Reginald Francis, KUCHENBECKERClick to display biography Joseph, LEWANDOWSKIClick to display biography Ambrose, PIECHOWSKIClick to display biography Julian, RAPIORClick to display biography Louis Joseph, RUDNIKClick to display biography Marian Matthias, SCHLIEPClick to display biography Casimir, STAWICKIClick to display biography Ignatius, SZPITTERClick to display biography John Anthony, WAŁDOCHClick to display biography John, ZAKRYŚClick to display biography Peter, ZYGMANOWSKIClick to display biography Marian

murder sites
camp 
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Szpęgawski forest: In Szpęgawsk forest Germans, as part of their «Intelligenzaktion» — extermination of Polish intelligentsia in Pomerania — between 09.1939 and 01.1940 in mass executions murdered 5,000‑7,000 Poles. Among them were c. 49 Catholic priests — all bar one from Starogard Gdański county, 30 from Culm diocese Curia and 5 from Pelplin. 1,692 psychiatric hospital patients in Kocborowo — in 15 mass executions starting from 22.09.1939 — part of «Aktion T4», i.e. Germ. „Vernichtung von lebensunwertem Leben” (Eng. „elimination of live not worth living”) extermination program, were also murdered there. The victims were brought from Starogard Gdański jail in trucks or buses with windows blackened at sunset or during the night. Transports avoided main roads. At murder site prisoners were forced to kneel at banks of the ditches and murdered by a shot to the back of the head. Wounded were finished off with rifle butts or buried alive. After World War II 39 mass graves were found. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.09.23]
)

Starogard Gdański: The prison in Starogard Gdański was built by the occupying Prussian authorities in 1893‑1912. In the interwar period, 1918‑1939, the facility was a penal and investigative prison for prisoners sentenced to up to 1 year in prison and served as a preventive detention center. After the German attack on Poland on 01.09.1939 and the commencement of the German occupation from mid–09.1939 to 12.1939, the prison became a local temporary detention center, in which a special committee of the Secret State Police Gestapo and the genocidal self–defense units Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz made selections of the detainees (c. 40 daily). Some were sent to the arrests of Gdańsk (and then to the KL Stutthof concentration camp), and some were sentenced to death (and murdered mainly in the nearby Szpęgawski forest). From 12.1939 to the end of the German occupation on 20.02.1945 the prison functioned as a court arrest. (more on: www.sw.gov.plClick 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
[access: 2023.05.28]
, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

sources

personal:
zspskorcz.republika.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]
, muzeum-kociewie.gda.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
, www.niedziela.diecezja.torun.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]

bibliographical:
Martyrology of the Polish Roman Catholic clergy under nazi occupation in 1939‑1945”, Victor Jacewicz, John Woś, vol. I‑V, Warsaw Theological Academy, 1977‑1981
Fr Anastasius Nadolny, prof., private correspondence
Biographical dictionary of priests ordained in the years 1921‑1945 working in the Chełmno diocese”, Fr Anastasius Nadolny, prof., Bernardinum publishing house 2021

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