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surname

GOCIEK

surname
versions/aliases

GOSIEK

forename(s)

Joseph (pl. Józef)

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function

religious cleric

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

congregation

Augustinian (OSA) OSAmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

(i.e. Augustinians, Augustinian friars)

date and place
of death

16.11.1941

KL Auschwitzconcentration camp
today: Oświęcim, Oświęcim gm., Oświęcim pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2022.01.09]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 that initiated the World War II and start of the German occupation the monks of Kraków–Kazimierz monastery provided shelter to c. 60 Poles deported forcibly by Germans from territories directly incorporated to Germany, mainly from Greater Poland region, and abandoned in the middle of nowhere in the German–run General Government territory.

They also gave help to persecuted Jews from the Kazimierz district of Cracom, the majority of whom in 05.1940 got deported to the vicinity of Lublin — to „allow” settlement of Germans arriving in Kraków — and the rest was locked in 03.1941 in the newly formed ghetto in Kraków–Podgórze.

Arrested on 19/20.09.1941 by the Germans together with a group of friars from Kazimierz monastery in Kraków, including Fr Boleslav Gaczek, Fr Adam Olszewski, Fr Thadeus Wilucki and Bro Casimir Lipka.

Jailed in Montelupich Str. prison in Kraków.

Tortured.

Next on 04.11.1941 transported to KL Auschwitz concentration camp where was murdered: did not recover after being hit 125 times by stick.

Formally Germans recorded his death as caused by Germ. „Bronchopneumonie” (Eng. „ Bronchopneumonia”)

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

20.08.1903

VendryněZaolzie – Cieszyn Silesia
today: Frýdek–Místek dist., Moravian–Silesian reg., Czechia

more on
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[access: 2022.02.15]

religious vows

02.09.1934 (permanent)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

16.06.1935

positions held

till 1941

friar — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ St Catherine of Alexandria the Virgin and Martyr monastery (7 Augustiańska Str.), Augustinians OSA

priest — Prokocimtoday: part of Bieżanów–Prokocim XII District, Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ Our Lady of Good Councel RC chapel ⋄ Bieżanówtoday: part of XII Bieżanów–Prokocim District in Kraków, Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.02.14]
, Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ WieliczkaVelyka Kletska
today: Wieliczka gm., Wieliczka pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.07]
RC deanery

from c. 1935

friar — Augustinians OSA

student — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ philosophy and theology

others related
in death

GACZEKClick to display biography Boleslav John (Fr William), LIPKAClick to display biography Adalbert Stanislav (Bro. Casimir), OLSZEWSKIClick to display biography Adam (Fr Christopher), WILUCKIClick to display biography Thaddeus (Fr Edmund)

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

KL Auschwitz (prisoner no: 22402Click to display biography): 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: en.auschwitz.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
, www.meczennicy.pelplin.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.07.06]
)

Cracow (Montelupich): Cracow penal prison, during occupation run by the Germans — from 28.02.1941 by Germ. Geheime Staatspolizei (Eng. Secret State Police, known as Gestapo. In 1940‑1944 Germans jailed there approx. 50,000 prisoners, mainly Poles and Jews. Some of them were transported to KL Auschwitz concentration camp, some were executed. After cease in war effort the prison was used by UB — a Polish unit of Russian NKVD — as a prison for Polish independence resistance fighters, some of which were subsequently sent to prisons and slave labour camps in Russia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31]
)

20.09.1941 arrests (Cracow): During the night of 19‑20.09.1941 German murderous political policy Gestapo entered Augustinian Congregation OSA monastery in Cracow–Kazimierz, by St Catherine of Alexandria and St Margaret church. As part of continuing repressions against the Polish clergy, incriminating friars of storing leaflets of Polish resistance organizations (part of Polish Clandestine State) calling for resisting German occupation authorities — in particular authorities of the so–called General Governorate — and of using „banned” receivers–transmitters, i.e. radio, 7 friar fathers and 1 brother were arrested. All were initially jailed in Montelupich Str. prison in Cracow where were tortured during interrogations and then sent to German concentration camps. Five of them never returned. (more on: www.augustianie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14]
)

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:
pl.auschwitz.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]

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
original images:
auschwitz.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.03.01]
, auschwitz.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.03.01]
, auschwitz.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.03.01]
, www.augustianie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.05.30]
, www.bj.uj.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]
, www.harmeze.franciszkanie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.03.21]

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