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

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surname

KOZANKIEWICZ

surname
versions/aliases

KOZAKIEWICZ

forename(s)

Bronislaus (pl. Bronisław)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

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

Włocławek ie. Kalisz diocese

honorary titles

Gold „Cross of Merit”more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

honorary canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
(Kalisz collegiate)
honorary canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
(Zakość collegiate)

date and place of death

04.12.1941

n. Gołuchówtoday: Gołuchów gm., Pleszew pow., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]

alt. dates and places of death

05.12.1941

details of death

After German invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II as an old and infirm priest left alone in his parish.

On 08.09.1941 (or 18.11.1941) — after Germans closed the church for Poles — forced to reside in the old people's house in Stawiszyn.

On 05.12.1941 transported out with all inhabitants of the old people's house and murdered — in all likelihood in a car made as a gas chamber — and buried somewhere in the local forest.

Body was never found.

cause of death

extermination: gassing in a gas chamber

perpetrators

Germans

date and place of birth

01.12.1866

Wieluńtoday: Wieluń gm., Wieluń pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.18]

presbyter (holy orders)/
ordination

1889

positions held

1911 – 1941

parish priest {parish: Stawiszyntoday: Stawiszyn gm., Kalisz pow., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.01]
, St Bartholomew the Apostle and St Hedwig from Silesia; dean.: Kalisz / Stawiszyn / North Kaliszdeanery names/seats
today: Greater Poland voiv., Poland
}

1897 – 1911

parish priest {parish: Szczercówtoday: Szczerców gm., Bełchatów pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Łasktoday: Łask gm., Łask pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.01]
}

1894 – 1897

administrator {parish: Naramicetoday: Biała Druga gm., Wieluń pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.11]
, St Rock the Confessor; church: All the Saints; dean.: Wieluńtoday: Wieluń gm., Wieluń pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.07.18]
}

1893 – 1894

administrator {parish: Kowale Pańskietoday: Kawęczyn gm., Turek pow., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
, Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Turektoday: Turek gm., Turek pow., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.11]
}

1890 – 1893

vicar {parish: Noworadomskotoday: Radomsko /from 1918/, Radomsko urban gm., Radomsko pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
, St Lambert the Bishop and Martyr; dean.: Noworadomskotoday: Radomsko /from 1918/, Radomsko urban gm., Radomsko pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
}

1889 – 1890

vicar {parish: Przyrówtoday: Przyrów gm., Częstochowa pow., Silesia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.11]
, St Dorothy Virgin and Martyr; dean.: Częstochowatoday: Częstochowa city pow., Silesia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
}

1889

vicar {parish: Parznotoday: Kluki gm., Bełchatów pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
, main parish Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Piotrków Trybunalskitoday: Piotrków Trybunalski city pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.07.29]
}

till 1888

student {Włocławektoday: Włocławek city pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
, philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary}

murder sites
camps (+ prisoner no)

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
[access: 2014.10.31]
)

06.10.1941 arrests (Warthegau): On 13.09.1941 Gaulaiter of German province Germ. Reichsgau Wartheland, in German–occupied Greater Poland (where German standard law was in force), Artur Greiser, implementing „Ohne Gott, ohne Religion, ohne Priesters und Sakramenten” — „without God, without religion, without priest and sacrament” — policy issued a decree formally dissolving Catholic Church and forming in its place a Roman Catholic German National Church in Wartheland, an organization subject to a German private law. All the contacts with Vatican were forbidden. All the religion congregations were also dissolved. On 06‑07.10.1941 mass arrests of Polish Catholic priests took place. All were herded into Konstantynów or Ląd on Warta river transit camps or KL Posen concentration camp (in this case, the detainees were first registered, photographed and examined in the infamous Poznań headquarters of the German political police, the Gestapo, in the former Soldier's House). On 30.10.1941 most of them were transported to KL Dachau concentration camp.

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
[access: 2015.09.30]
)

sources

personal:
www.wtg-gniazdo.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
, parafiastawiszyn.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14]
, www.wtg-gniazdo.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.02.15]

bibliograhical:, „Victims of German crime among Włocławek diocese clergy”, Fr Stanislau Librowski, „Włocławek Diocese Chronicle”, 07‑08.1947,
original images:
parafiastawiszyn.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14]
, www.wtg-gniazdo.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]

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