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
religious status
Servant of God
surname
FINC
forename(s)
Jan
function
religious cleric
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
congregation
Congregation of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (Oblates - OMI)more on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
diocese / province
Polish province OMI
Katowice diocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
date and place of death
28.06.1940
Kielcetoday: Kielce city pow., Holy Cross voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07]
alt. dates and places of death
12.06.1940, 13.06.1940
details of death
After German invasion of Poland on 01.09.1939 (Russians invaded Poland 17 days later) and start of World War II, after start of German occupation, arrested by the Germans on 03.04.1940, together with 3 other friars.
Accused of having contact with Polish clandestine resistance — German political police Gestapo agents arresting him apparently found a caricature of national socialist leader, Adolf Hitler, in the pocket of his cassock.
The monastery chronicle contains the following entry: „Father Finc was beaten three times, when he fainted, they revived him and told him in front of the altar that this was only the first fall of Christ, and He had three […] When Father Superior was brought to the church beaten and bleeding, they ordered him to kneel before the altar of St Joseph, and one of the Gestapo men took the cross from the altar and placed it in front of Father Superior, ordering him to kiss it. When Father Superior wanted to put his mouth close to it, the Gestapo man hit him in the face with it. Blood poured from his mouth and he fainted”.
Held in Kielce prison — initially in a cramped cell in the basement, then in the political ward.
Sentenced by the Germans — prob. by the kangaroo, genocidal German Standgericht der Sicherheitspolizei (Eng. summary court of the security police) — to death. Murdered in an execution of 63 Poles in a forest by the Forest Stadium in Kielce.
cause of death
mass murder
perpetrators
Germans
date and place of birth
06.09.1910
Siemońtoday: Zławieś Wielka gm., Toruń pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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religious vows
15.08.1928 (temporary)
12.09.1931 (permanent)
presbyter (holy orders)/
ordination
08.04.1934
positions held
1939 – 1940
superior {Nowa Słupiatoday: Nowa Słupia gm., Kielce pow., Holy Cross voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.29], Holy Cross monastery on Łysa Góra (Eng. Bald Mountain), Oblates Friars' monastery}
1934 – 1939
friar and teacher {Lubliniectoday: Lubliniec urban gm., Lubliniec pow., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.02], Minor Theological Seminary i.e. Juniorate (equiv. to gymnasium), St Stanislaus Kostka Congregation's house, Congregation of Missionary Oblates OMI}, lecturer of Polish literature
till 1934
student {Obratoday: Wolsztyn gm., Wolsztyn pow., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Higher Theological Seminary i.e. Scholasticate, St Bernard Congregation's house, Congregation of Missionary Oblates OMI}
1927 – 1928
novitiate {Markowicetoday: Strzelno gm., Mogilno pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07], Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary monastery, Congregation of Missionary Oblates OMI}
from 1922
pupil {Lubliniectoday: Lubliniec urban gm., Lubliniec pow., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.04.02], Minor Theological Seminary i.e. Juniorate (equiv. to gymnasium), St Stanislaus Kostka Congregation's house, Congregation of Missionary Oblates OMI}
others related in death
BARTOSZClick to display biography Czesław, KULAWYClick to display biography Jan Wilhelm, KULAWYClick to display biography Paweł, LESZCZYKClick to display biography Anthony, PAWOŁEKClick to display biography Jan
murder sites
camps (+ prisoner no)
Kielce: The prison at Zamkowa Str. in Kielce was opened in 1826‑8. In 09.1939, after start of German occupation, under German control. Initially a POW camp and next prison run by German political police Gestapo. Till 1945 more then c. 16,000 prisoners were held there. Any time c. 2,000 were incarcerated, in space build for c. 400 people. Prisoners, in extremely cramped conditions, were starved, ill–treated and murdered in prison, executed outside, transported to German concentration camps or deported to slave labour sites. Prison chapel Germans used as torture chamber. At the same time in 08.1941 (after German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, do till the autumn of 1944 in Fijałkowski’s barracks in Kielce Bukówka district Germans set up a POW camp for Russian prisoners (branch of Stalag XII C „Kamienna” in Skarżysko–Kamienna, later of Stalag 367 Częstochowa). According to one of the witnesses first 100 POWs were brought in 09.1941. A week later 4,500 more arrived and within a fortnight another 5,000. Following that the POWs were brought in groups of 500‑1,000. Altogether c. 15,000‑20,000 Russian POWs were held in the camp. POWs slaved at forest clearances, digging sewage ditches, at train loading. They got a hunger rations (as a result acts of cannibalism took place). Slept in unheated barracks. Were beaten and tortured (with wooden battons). Received to medical help. For any type of transgression they were penalized with execution. The camp was managed by the Germans and was supported by a camp’s militia, composed mainly by the Ukrainians. Only few hundred prisoners survived who in the autumn of 1944 were transferred to other camps. From 1945 in Russian Commie–Nazi hands. Till 1956 many political prisoners, e.g. members of former restistance Home Army AK and National Armed Forces NSZ (part of Polish Clandestine State) where held camptive there. On 04‑05.1945 Polish partisans commanded by Mjr Anthony Heda attacked the prison and release c. 700 prisoners. (more on: www.chroniclesofterror.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.02.08])
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
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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 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
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