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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

KACZMAREK

forename(s)

Theodore Nicodemus (pl. Teodor Nikodem)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Gniezno and Poznań archdiocese (aeque principaliter)more on
www.archpoznan.pl
[access: 2012.11.23]

academic distinctions

Philosopy MA

date and place
of death

21.09.1954

Sztumtoday: Sztum gm., Sztum pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of death

21.10.1954

details of death

Participant of Greater Poland Uprising in 1918‑1919.

Military nurse during battles n. Wolsztyn and after ordination a chaplain in Gniezno.

After German invasion of Poland in 09.1939 (Russians invaded Poland 17 days later) and start of the World War II arrested on 11.09.1939 by the Germans.

Jailed in Margonin prison but on 27.09.1939 released.

On 12.12.1939 deported to the German‑run General Governorate.

Settled in Kamionna n. Węgrów where helped the local parish priest.

To his parish returned on 13.03.1945, after German defeat in 1944/1945 and start of another Russian occupation.

In 1952, facing a ban on Corpus Christi procession public altars, led a procession during which the altar was set up on a moving car platform and stopped at precisely the same spots where traditional altars had usually been erected.

On 30.12.1952 arrested by the Russian controlled Commie‑Nazi secret police UB.

Jailed in Krotoszyn gaol.

On 06.01.1953 released.

On 22.03.1953 however arrested again.

Moved to infamous Rakowiecka Str. prison in Warsaw and accused by UB of failing to report „subversive”, clandestine activities — during German occupation — of his niece and her husband in clandestine resistance Home Army AK (part of the Polish Clandestine State) to the „relevant authorities”.

On 29.01.1954 sentenced in Warsaw to 5 years.

Jailed in Sztum prison.

There held for 6 months in a 1.2×3 m, single prison cell, in isolation.

There perished — refused necessary medical support when requested.

Officially the cause of death was quoted as „heart failure”.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Russians / Poles

date and place
of birth

15.09.1895

Kościantoday: Kościan gm., Kościan pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

05.04.1919 (Gniezno cathedralmore on
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[access: 2014.11.14]
)

positions held

1949 – 1953

dean — Krotoszyntoday: Krotoszyn gm., Krotoszyn pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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RC deanery

1946 – 1953

parish priest — Krotoszyntoday: Krotoszyn gm., Krotoszyn pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Krotoszyntoday: Krotoszyn gm., Krotoszyn pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
RC deanery

1945 – 1946

parish priest — Margonintoday: Margonin gm., Chodzież pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ St Adalbert the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Rogoźnotoday: Rogoźno gm., Oborniki pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
RC deanery

c. 1939 – 1945

priest — Kamionnatoday: Łochów gm., Węgrów pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Węgrówtoday: Węgrów urban gm., Węgrów pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.08.20]
RC deanery

1933 – 1939

parish priest — Margonintoday: Margonin gm., Chodzież pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ St Adalbert the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Rogoźnotoday: Rogoźno gm., Oborniki pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
RC deanery

till 1939

PhD student — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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⋄ philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University (from 1955), University of Poland (1945‑1955, 1920‑1939), Piast University (1919‑1920), Royal Academy (1903‑1918)

1926 – 1933

parish priest — Wieszczyczyntoday: Dolsk gm., Śrem pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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⋄ St Rock the Confessor RC parish ⋄ Śremtoday: Śrem gm., Śrem pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
RC deanery

1926 – 1932

student — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ education, Department of Humanities, Adam Mickiewicz University (from 1955), University of Poland (1945‑1955, 1920‑1939), Piast University (1919‑1920), Royal Academy (1903‑1918) — postgraduate specialised studies crowned with Philosophy Master's degree

1922 – 1926

vicar — Wolsztyntoday: Wolsztyn gm., Wolsztyn pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate Conception RC parish ⋄ Zbąszyńtoday: Zbąszyń gm., Nowy Tomyśl pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.20]
RC deanery

1922 – 1926

prefect — Wolsztyntoday: Wolsztyn gm., Wolsztyn pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ State Teachers' Seminary

1919 – 1922

vicar — Ostrzeszówtoday: Ostrzeszów gm., Ostrzeszów pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.05.30]
⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary of the Assumption RC parish ⋄ Ostrzeszówtoday: Ostrzeszów gm., Ostrzeszów pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.05.30]
RC deanery

1918 – 1919

student — Gnieznotoday: Gniezno urban gm., Gniezno pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Archbishop's Practical Theological Seminary (Lat. Seminarium Clericorum Practicum)

student — Münstertoday: Münster urban dist., Münster reg., North Rhine–Westphalia state, Germany
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ Department of Theology and Philosophy, [Wilhelm University of Westphalia (from 1907) / Royal University of Theology and Philosophy (1902–1907) / Royal Theological and Philosophical Academy] (1843–1902)

author of several historical works and publications

murder sites
camp 
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Sztum: Prison in Sztum was built in 1910‑1914, during the Prussian (German) partition of Poland. Initially, it had 450 cells that formed the letter 'T'. In the mid‑1930s — after World War I and the establishment of the Polish state, Sztum remained in Germany, in the West Prussian regency — another wing was added for 300 more prisoners, and the facility took the form of a cross. In 1939, just before the start of World War II, arrests of Polish activists began. Many passed through the Sztum prison before being sent to German concentration camps. During the war, the prison functioned normally. On 20.01.1945, in the face of the Russian offensive, the Germans began to evacuate the city and emptied the prison. After start of the Russian occupation, the Commie–Nazis held in prison, among others Germans, soldiers of the Polish resistance Home Army AK — until 1953 the prison was overcrowded: 501 cells held up to 6,000 prisoners. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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)

Warsaw (Mokotów): Prison and detention centre in Warsaw on Rakowiecka Str. Used by Germans during German occupation 1939‑1945 to held thousands of Poles. In 1945‑1956 thousands of Polish independence activists were held there by the Polish Commie–Nazi branch of Russian NKVD/KGB police. Hundreds of Poles were executed. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
)

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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Deportations from niem. Reichsgau Wartheland: After defeating Poland in 1939 a new province was created in Germany, Germ. Reichsgau Wartheland (Eng. Warta German Region) and defined as „indigenous German”, although in 1939 Germans constituted less than 10% of the total population there. In the same 1939, the national–socialist leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler, announced the need to move Germans from the East to the Reich, mainly to the Germ. Reichsgau Wartheland. Another German leader, Robert Ley, stated, „In 50 years there will be a thriving German country where there will be neither a Pole nor a Jew! If someone asks me where they will be, I will answer: I don't know. In Palestine or in the Sahara desert, I don't care. But German people will live here!” Deportations began. By the end of 1939, c. 80 railway transports were sent to the General Governorate — a total of 87,883 people, mainly Poles and Jews. By 03.1941, over 280,000 people had been displaced. The deported had the right to take with them 12‑30 kg per person. They were given half an hour to pack. Over 60,000 Germans from Estonia, Latvia, Finland, later from other regions, were brought in to replace them. In 1941, c. 70,000 remaining Jewsa were displaced. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Collective responsibility („Hostages”): A criminal practice implemented by the Germans in the occupied territories of Poland, applied from the very first day of World War II. At its core was an appointment and public announcement of a list of names of selected people whose lives depended on absolute compliance with German orders. Any violation of these ordinances, by any person, regardless of the circumstances, resulted in the murder of the designated „hostages”. In the first days of the war and occupation, it was used i.a. by the German Wehrmacht army to prevent acts of continuation of the defense by the Poles. Later, especially in the German–run General Governorate, it was part of the official policy of the occupation authorities — collective responsibility for any acts of resistance to the occupier's practices. For the life of one German, even if death was due to customary reasons, the Germans carried out executions from a dozen to even a hundred Poles previously designated as „hostages”.

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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Greater Poland Uprising: Military insurrection of Poles living in Posen Provinz (Eng. Poznań province) launched against German Reich in 1918‑1919 aiming to incorporate lands captured by Prussia during partitions of Poland in XVIII century into Poland, reborn in 1918. Started on 27.12.1918 in Poznań and finished with total Polish victory on 16.02.1919 by a ceasefire in Trier. Many Polish priests took part in the Uprising, both as chaplains of the insurgents units and members and leaders of the Polish agencies and councils set up in the areas covered by the Uprising. In 1939 after German invasion of Poland and start of the II World war those priests were particularly persecuted by the Germans and majority of them were murdered. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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