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05-507 Słomczyn
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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland
XX century (1914 – 1989)
personal data
surname
FLACZYŃSKI
surname
versions/aliases
FLAK
forename(s)
Francis (pl. Franciszek)
function
diocesan priest
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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diocese / province
Płock diocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
academic distinctions
Theology MA
honorary titles
honorary canonmore on
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[access: 2014.11.14] (Pułtusk collegiate)
date and place
of death
28.05.1942
TA HartheimSchloss Hartheim „euthanasia” center
today: Alkoven, Eferding dist., Salzburg state, Austria
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alt. dates and places
of death
21.06.1942 (KL Dachau „death certificate” date)
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, arrested by the Germans on 22.10.1939.
Transported to Rypin prison and from there after a week to Obory transit camp.
Next on 22.02.1940 taken to Grudziądz transit camp and after a fortnight to KL Stutthof concentration camp.
On 10.04.1940 transported to KL Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Finally on 14.12.1940 taken to KL Dachau concentration camp, from where — totally exhausted — transferred in „Invalids' transport” to TA Hartheim Euthanasia Center and murdered in a gas chamber.
cause of death
extermination: gassing in a gas chamber
perpetrators
Germans
date and place
of birth
29.01.1881
Radziwietoday: neighborhood in Płock, Płock city pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
1906 (Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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positions held
1935 – 1939
parish priest {parish: Skrwilnotoday: Skrwilno gm., Rypin pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], St Anne; dean.: Rypintoday: Rypin gm., Rypin pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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1930 – 1935
parish priest {parish: Baranowotoday: Baranowo gm., Ostrołęka pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], St Bartholomew the Apostle; church: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Przasnysztoday: Przasnysz urban gm., Przasnysz pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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1929 – 1930
vice–rector {Płocktoday: Płock city pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Theological Seminary}, also: professor of moral theology
1925 – 1929
parish priest {parish: Różantoday: Różań gm., Maków Mazowiecki pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], St Anne; dean.: Maków Mazowieckitoday: Maków Mazowiecki urban gm., Maków Mazowiecki pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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1921 – 1925
parish priest {parish: Szwelicetoday: Karniewo gm., Maków Mazowiecki pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.13], St John the Baptist; church: St Lawrence the Martyr; dean.: Maków Mazowieckitoday: Maków Mazowiecki urban gm., Maków Mazowiecki pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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1920 – 1923
dean {Maków Mazowieckitoday: Maków Mazowiecki urban gm., Maków Mazowiecki pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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1920 – 1921
administrator {parish: Maków Mazowieckitoday: Maków Mazowiecki urban gm., Maków Mazowiecki pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.08.06], St Joseph; church: Corpus Christi; dean.: Maków Mazowieckitoday: Maków Mazowiecki urban gm., Maków Mazowiecki pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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1919 – 1920
parish priest {parish: Małkiniatoday: Małkinia Górna, Małkinia Górna gm., Ostrów Mazowiecka pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Sacred Heart of Jesus; dean.: Ostrów Mazowieckatoday: Ostrów Mazowiecka gm., Ostrów Mazowiecka pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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1909 – 1919
prefect {parish: Pułtusktoday: Pułtusk gm., Pułtusk pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], St Matthew the Apostle and the Evangelist; church: Annunciation and Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary; classic gymnasium for boys /until 1915/, Fr Peter Skarga philological gymnasium /from 1915/; dean.: Pułtusktoday: Pułtusk gm., Pułtusk pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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1907 – 1909
vicar {parish: Płocktoday: Płock city pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], cathedral Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary}, also: prison chaplain
1907 – 1908
secretary {Płocktoday: Płock city pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Diocesan Curia}
1907 – 1908
professor {Płocktoday: Płock city pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Theological Seminary}
1903 – 1907
student {Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31], theology, Imperial Roman Catholic Spiritual Academy (1842‑1918)}
1897 – 1903
student {Płocktoday: Płock city pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary}
{author of historical novels}
{translator}
others related
in death
DEMBIŃSKIClick to display biography Anthony, RYBUSClick to display biography Stanislaus, RYDZEWSKIClick to display biography Ceslaus, SERWIGNATClick to display biography Anthony, SIKOROWSKIClick to display biography Vincent Severin, SIUTOWICZClick to display biography Joseph, SKOWRONEKClick to display biography Michael, SKÓRNICKIClick to display biography Vladislav Leo, SMONIEWSKIClick to display biography Arthur Stanislaus, STANISZEWSKIClick to display biography Boleslaus Stanislaus, STAWICKIClick to display biography Leonard, STEFANIAKClick to display biography Stanislaus, STRUMIŁŁOClick to display biography Martin Anthony, STYPUŁKOWSKIClick to display biography Leo, SUCHAŃSKIClick to display biography Stanislaus Gregory, SUCHOŃClick to display biography Vladislav, SULEKClick to display biography Boleslaus, SYPNIEWSKIClick to display biography Thaddeus, SZAŁKIEWICZClick to display biography Anthony Vladislav, SZADKOWSKIClick to display biography Joseph, SZULCZEWSKIClick to display biography Robert, SZYDŁOWSKIClick to display biography Stanislaus, SZYMAŃSKIClick to display biography Steven, SZYMCZAKClick to display biography Andrew John, ŚLUSARSKIClick to display biography Boleslaus, TACZAKClick to display biography Leo, TOMASIKClick to display biography Joseph, URBANClick to display biography John, WAJSZCZUKClick to display biography Charles Leonard, WALCZEWSKIClick to display biography John, WALCZYKOWSKIClick to display biography Alexander Leo Mieczyslav, WALTERClick to display biography Edmund, WARMIŃSKIClick to display biography Edward Theodore, WAWRZYNOWICZClick to display biography Stanislaus
murder sites
camp
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TA Hartheim: In Germ. Tötungsanstalt TA Hartheim (Eng. Killing/Euthanasia Center), in Schloss Hartheim castle in Alkoven village in Upper Austria, belonging to KL Mauthausen–Gusen complex of concentration camps, as part of „Aktion T4”, the victims — underdeveloped mentally — were murdered by Germans in gas chambers. In 04.1941 Germans expanded the program to include prisoners held in concentration camps. Most if not all religious from KL Dachau were taken to Hartheim in so called „transports of invalids” (denoted as „Aktion 14 f 13”) — prisoners sick and according to German standards „unable to work” — from KL Dachau concentration camp (initially under the guise of a transfer to a „better” camp).
Note: The dates of death of victims murdered in Schloss Hartheim indicated in the „White Book” are the dates of deportations from the last concentration camp the victims where held in. The real dates of death are unknown — apart from c. 49 priests whose names were included in the „transports of invalids”, but who did arrive at TA Hartheim. Prob. perished on the day of transport, somewhere between KL Dachau and Munich, and their bodies were thrown out of the transport and cremated in Munich. The investigation conducted by Polish Institute of National Remembrance IPN concluded, that the other victims were murdered immediately upon arrival in Schloss Hartheim, bodies cremated and the ashes spread over local fields and into Danube river. In order to hide details of the genocided Germans falsified both dates of death (for instance those entered into KL Dachau concentration camp books, presented in „White Book” as alternative dates of death) and their causes. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.05.30])
Aktion T4: German euthanasia program, systematic murder of people mentally retarded, chronically, mentally and neurologically ill — „elimination of live not worth living” (Germ. „Vernichtung von lebensunwertem Leben”). In a peak, in 1940‑1, c. 70,000 people were murdered, including patients of psychiatric hospitals in German occupied Poland. From 04.1941 also mentally ill and „disabled” (i.e. unable to work) prisoners held in German concentration camps were included in the program — denoted then as „Aktion 14 f 13”. C. 20,000 inmates were then murdered, including Polish catholic priests held in KL Dachau concentration camp, who were murdered in Hartheim gas chambers. The other „regional extension” of Aktion T4 was „Aktion Brandt” program during which Germans murdered chronically ill patients in order to make space for wounded soldiers. It is estimated that at least 30,000 were murdered in this program. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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KL Dachau (prisoner no: 22486Click to display biography): KL Dachau in German Bavaria, set up in 1933, became the main concentration camp for Catholic priests and religious during II World War: On c. 09.11.1940, Reichsführer–SS Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, Gestapo and German police, as a result of the Vatican's intervention, decided to transfer all clergymen detained in various concentration camps to KL Dachau camp. The first major transports took place on 08.12.1940. In KL Dachau Germans held approx. 3,000 priests, including 1,800 Poles. The priests were forced to slave labor in the Germ. „Die Plantage” — the largest herb garden in Europe, managed by the genocidal SS, consisting of many greenhouses, laboratory buildings and arable land, where experiments with new natural medicines were conducted — for many hours, without breaks, without protective clothing, no food. They slaved in construction, e.g. of camp's crematorium. In the barracks ruled hunger, freezing cold in the winter and suffocating heat during the summer. Prisoners suffered from bouts of illnesses, including tuberculosis. Many were victims of murderous „medical experiments” — in 11.1942 c. 20 were given phlegmon injections; in 07.1942 to 05.1944 c. 120 were used by for malaria experiments. More than 750 Polish clerics where murdered by the Germans, some brought to Schloss Hartheim euthanasia centre and murdered in gas chambers. At its peak KL Dachau concentration camps’ system had nearly 100 slave labour sub–camps located throughout southern Germany and Austria. There were c. 32,000 documented deaths at the camp, and thousands perished without a trace. C. 10,000 of the 30,000 inmates were found sick at the time of liberation, on 29.04.1945, by the USA troops… (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.05.30])
KL Sachsenhausen: In KL Sachsenhausen concentration camp, set up in the former Olympic village in 07.1936, hundreds of Polish priests were held in 1940, before being transported to KL Dachau. Some of them perished in KL Sachsenhausen. Murderous medical experiments on prisoners were carried out in the camp. In 1942‑4 c. 140 prisoners slaved at manufacturing false British pounds, passports, visas, stamps and other documents. Other prisoners also had to do slave work, for Heinkel aircraft manufacturer, AEG and Siemens among others. On average c. 50,000 prisoners were held at any time. Altogether more than 200,000 inmates were in jailed in KL Sachsenhausen and its branched, out of which tens of thousands perished. Prior to Russian arrival mass evacuation was ordered by the Germans and c. 80,000 prisoners were marched west in so‑called „death marches” to other camps, i.e. KL Mauthausen–Gusen and KL Bergen–Belsen. The camp got liberated on 22.04.1945. After end of armed hostilities Germans set up there secret camp for German prisoners and „suspicious” Russian soldiers. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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KL Stutthof: In KL Stutthof (then in Eastern Prussian belonging to Germany, today: Sztutowo village) concentration camp, that Germans started to build on 02.09.1939, a day after German invasion of Poland and start of the II World War, Germans held c. 100‑127 thousands prisoners from 28 countries, including 47 thousands women and children. C. 65,000 victims were murdered and exterminated. In the period of 25.01–27.04.1945 in the face of approaching Russian army Germans evacuated the camp. When on 09.05.1945 Russians soldiers entered the camp only 100 prisoners were still there. In an initial period (1939‑40) Polish Catholic priests from Pomerania were held captive there before being transported to KL Dachau concentration camp. Some of them were murdered in KL Stutthof or vicinity (for instance in Stegna forest). Also later some Catholic priests were held in KL Stutthof. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Grudziądz: As part of „Intelligenzaktion” — physical extermination of Polish intelligentsia from Pomerania — Germans initially in 1939 jailed Poles is investigative prison in Grudziądz. After it became too small they set‑up a transit camp in a so‑called Borderlands Hostel building at Chopin Str. where they jailed from 4,000 to 5,000 Poles, including c. 150 local priests. Most of them were subsequently murdered in local forests (Księże Góry, Mniszek‑Grupa), some were taken to concentration camps. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Obory: From 30.10.1939 till 22.02.1940 in a Carmelite fathers’ convent Germans held up to 100 Polish priest from Płock and Chełmno dioceses prior to sending them to concentration camp. Most of them perished there. (more on: www.obory.com.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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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
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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
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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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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:
martyrologium.w.interia.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], mazowsze.hist.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.01.13], arolsen-archives.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.05.30]
bibliograhical:, „Płock diocese clergy martyrology during II World War 1939‑1945”, Fr Nicholas Marian Grzybowski, Włocławek–Płock 2002,
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