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surname

LEWANDOWSKI

forename(s)

Louis (pl. Ludwik)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

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

Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.12.20]

academic distinctions

Doctor of Theology

date and place
of death

26.08.1944

Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.10.09]

alt. dates and places
of death

20.08.1944, 09.1944

details of death

After German and Russian invasions of Poland in 09.1939 and the beginning of World War II, after the start of the German occupation, Pułtusk found itself in the areas directly incorporated into the German Reich, as Germ. Regierungsbezirk Zichenau (Eng. Ciechanów District) in German Provinz Ostpreußen (Eng. East Prussia province).

Avoided arrests of clergy in 1941.

In 02.1942 illegally crossed the border into a German–run General Governorate and moved to Warsaw.

There started to work of PhD thesis at Theology Department of the clandestine Warsaw University, part of Polish Clandestine State.

In the spring of 1944 successfully got his PhD in theology (during German occupation of Warsaw there were only two such cases of completing and defending PhD thesis — obviously in strict conspiracy, for participation in secret education was punishable by death by the Germans).

Arrested by the Germans on 26.08.1944, during Warsaw Uprising, when ministered as a chaplain to the clandestine Home Army AK (part of Polish Clandestine State), in the basement of Annunciation church in Warsaw.

Further fate unknown.

Prob. murdered.

alt. details of death

According to one version, marched by the Germans to the Gdańsk Railway Station in Warsaw.

There forced to slave labor.

Fate thereafter unknown.

According to another, detained by the Germans, along with other priests, in the church of Of Our Lady Queen of Poland near the Citadel in Warsaw–Marymont, and marched towards Żyrardów.

At one point led out by the Germans to make coffee.

Did not come back.

cause of death

warfare

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

20.08.1909

Dobrzyń nad Wisłątoday: Dobrzyń nad Wisłą gm., Lipno pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

06.06.1936 (Płock cathedralmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
)

positions held

1943 – 1944

chaplain — Laskitoday: Izabelin gm., Warsaw–west pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.08.05]
⋄ Institute of the Blind

1942 – 1944

PhD student — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Department of Catholic Theology, [University of Warsaw (from 1945) / clandestine University (1939‑1945) / Joseph Piłsudski University (1935‑1939) / University of Warsaw (1915‑1935) / Imperial University of Warsaw (1870‑1915)] — PhD thesis „st John Chrysostom on education based on the monastic ideal”), public defense in spring of 1944 (clandestinely, in secret)

1939 – 1942

vicar — Pułtusktoday: Pułtusk gm., Pułtusk pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Annunciation and Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC church ⋄ St Matthew the Apostle and the Evangelist RC parish ⋄ Pułtusktoday: Pułtusk gm., Pułtusk pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1937 – 1939

vicar — Mława–Wólkaform.: also Wólka Mławska or Mławka
today: district of Mława, Mława urban gm., Mława pov., Masovia voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St John Cantius the Confessor RC parish ⋄ Mławatoday: Mława urban gm., Mława pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery — also: prefect of elementary schools

1936 – 1937

vicar — Sochocintoday: Sochocin gm., Płońsk pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.08.06]
⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Płońsktoday: Płońsk urban gm., Płońsk pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

till c. 1937

student — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ theology, Department of Theology, [clandestine John Casimir University (1941‑1944) / Ivan Franko University (1940‑1941) / John Casimir University (1919‑1939) / Franciscan University (1817‑1918)] — postgraduate specialised studies crowned with the Sacred Theology Master's degree, based on „The primacy of Peter in the works of John Chrysostom” thesis

1930 – 1936

student — Płocktoday: Płock city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

author of translations from German

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

Warsaw Uprising: Lasted from 01.08.1944 till 03.10.1944. Was an attempt to liberate Polish capital from occupying Germans by the Polish Clandestine State — a unique in the history of the world political structure on the territories occupied by the Germans, effectively governing clandestinely in Poland — and by fighting on its behalf underground military units, mainly of Home Army (former Armed Struggle Association ZWZ) and National Armed Forced (NSZ). At the same time Russians stopped on purpose the offensive on all front, halted on the other bank of Vistula river and watched calmly the annihilation of the city, refusing even the mid–landing rights to the Allied planes carrying weapons and supplies to the insurgents from Italy. During the Uprising Germans murdered approx. 200,000 Poles, mainly civilians. Approx. 200 priests and nuns died in fighting or were murdered by the Germans, many in mass executions. (more on: en.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
[access: 2013.12.04]
)

02‑03.1941 arrests (Zichenau region): In the night of 17/18.02.1941 and night of 06/07.03.1941 Germans arrested dozens of Catholic priests and nuns from Regierungsbezirk Zichenau, a occupied region belonging to German East Prussia province. All were transported through Płock prison to KL Soldau concentration camp. Among the arrested were two Catholic bishops of Płock diocese, abp Nowowiejski and bp Wetmański. Few priests were murdered in KL Soldau (including both bishops), more later on in other concentration camp, mainly in KL Dachau. Most of the nuns were subsequently released.

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
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bibliographical:
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