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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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    06.1911, Brańczyce
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surname

GRODIS

forename(s)

John (pl. Jan)

function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Pinsk diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Minsk diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Mogilev archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.06.23]

academic distinctions

Sacred Theology MA

date and place
of death

1942

Nyasvizhtoday: Nyasvizh dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.12.15]

alt. dates and places
of death

1943

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, and start of German occupation arrested by the Germans, for among other helping Jews.

Released after few months.

Drowned in mysterious circumstances in Dziavočy staŭ lake.

The ghetto in Nieśwież was established in 1941. In 10.1941 the Germans — with the help of Lithuanian soldiers — murdered c. 4,000 Jews of Nieśwież. On 20.07.1942 an uprising broke out in the „small” ghetto. The Germans and the Belarusian police and Lithuanian soldiers cooperating with them murdered c. 700 Jews. A few managed to hide…

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

1881

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

24.06.1908

positions held

c. 1939 – 1942

priest — Nyasvizhtoday: Nyasvizh dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
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⋄ Corpus Christi RC parish ⋄ Nyasvizhtoday: Nyasvizh dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
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RC deanery

1920 – 1939

director — Nyasvizhtoday: Nyasvizh dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
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⋄ Vladislav Syrokomla's State Coeducational Gymnasium ⋄ Corpus Christi RC parish ⋄ Nyasvizhtoday: Nyasvizh dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
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RC deanery — also: rector of St Euphemia church of the Congregation of Benedictine Nuns of Immaculate Conception OSB (c. 1936), president of the local branch of the Society for the Development of Eastern Territories (till 1939)

1908 – c. 1920

prefect — Slutsktoday: Slutsk dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.04.22]
⋄ St Anthony of Padua RC parish ⋄ Slutsktoday: Slutsk dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.04.22]
RC deanery — i.a. at the local gymnasium (also its principal)

from c. 1900

student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

Help to the Jews: During World War II on the Polish occupied territories Germans forbid to give any support to the Jews under penalty of death. Hundreds of Polish priests and religious helped the Jews despite this official sanction. Many of them were caught and murdered.

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
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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:
www.glaukopis.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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, www.polacyizydzi.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.02.15]
, pbc.biaman.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.04.18]

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:
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