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

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surname

NOWAKOWSKI

forename(s)

Marcel (pl. Marceli)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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diocese / province

Warsaw archdiocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]

Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
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[access: 2014.12.20]

academic distinctions

Doctor of Sacred Theology

honorary titles

prelatemore on
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[access: 2014.11.14]

„Cross of Valour”more on
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[access: 2019.04.16]

date and place
of death

22.01.1940

Palmirytoday: Czosnów gm., Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of death

18.02.1940

Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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details of death

During Polish–Russian war of 1920 chaplain of 5th Cavalry Regiment of Polish Army.

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of German occupation, for the first time arrested by the Germans on 04.10.1940.

Released.

On 08.12.1940 (according to other sources already on 09.10.1939) arrested again, together with his vicar, Fr Bronislav Wróblewski, and a sacristan.

Jailed in Daniłowiczowska Str. and Szucha Alley interrogation arrests and prisons in Warsaw.

16.01.1940 tried by a German genocidal kangaroo court — for conducting anti–German activities, distributing anti–German leaflets in his parish church and facilitating the departure abroad of Helene Sikorska, wife of General Vladislav Sikorski. – to the death penalty.

Did not admit to the charges — according to witnesses, in his speech „accused and judged the judges and the entire German nation, prophesying their defeat in the war”.

Sentenced to death.

Murdered in a mass execution of Polish Warsaw intelligentsia in Palmiry.

alt. details of death

According to other sources murdered in Warsaw Parliament gardens.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

20.09.1882

Przybyszewtoday: Promna gm., Białobrzegi pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1909

positions held

1926 – 1940

parish priest — WarsawŚródmieście district
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland

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⋄ Holy Savior RC parish ⋄ Warsaw–in–urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

1937 – 1939

pro–synodal examiner — Metropolitan Curia ⋄ Warsaw RC archdiocese

1924 – 1932

synod judge — Archbishop's Metropolitan Court ⋄ Warsaw RC archdiocese

1928 – 1930

parliamentary deputy — Seym of the 2nd Term of the Second Polish Republic — on behalf of the National Democracy representation (ZSLN, ZLN, ChZJN, Catholic–National List)

1922 – 1927

parliamentary deputy — Seym of the 1st Term of the Second Polish Republic — on behalf of the National Democracy representation (ZSLN, ZLN, ChZJN, Catholic–National List)

1919 – 1922

parliamentary deputy — Legislative Seym of the Second Polish Republic — on behalf of the National Democracy representation (ZSLN, ZLN, ChZJN, Catholic–National List)

1910 – 1926

professor — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ Metropolitan Theological Seminary — lecturer in history of philosophy and the Church history

1916 – 1923

censor of religious books (Lat. censores librorum) — Warsaw RC archdiocese

secretary — personal, to Archbishop Alexander Kakowski

1916 – 1924

vicar — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ Holy Cross RC parish ⋄ Warsaw–in–urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

1911 – 1915

vicar — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ All the Saints RC parish ⋄ Warsaw–in–urbedeanery name
today: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
RC deanery

1909 – 1910

vicar — Wiskitkitoday: Wiskitki gm., Żyrardów pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.04.12]
⋄ All the Saints and St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Grodzisk Mazowieckitoday: Grodzisk Mazowiecki gm., Grodzisk Mazowiecki pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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RC deanery

1909

vicar — Zdunytoday: Zduny gm., Łowicz pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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⋄ St James the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Łowicztoday: Łowicz urban gm., Łowicz pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

c. 1905 – 1909

PhD student — Innsbrucktoday: Innsbruck–Land dist., Upper Austria state, Austria
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⋄ theology, Leopold and Francis University

c. 1905

student — Munichtoday: Bavaria state, Germany
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⋄ history

1904 – 1905

student — Rometoday: Rome prov., Lazio reg., Italy
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⋄ law and theology, „Gregorianum”, i.e. [Lat. Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana / Eng. Pontifical Gregorian University] — resident of the Resurrectionists' house at via Marconi; also: learning Italian and French, and history of art

1899 – 1904

student — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary

activist — political, social and educational — outstanding orator, speaker and preacher, especially during significant national events

co‑organizer of the Polish Red Cross and the Society for the Protection of Prisoners during World War I.

author, i.a. „Martin Luther. Creator of the Pseudo–Reformation” („Handbook Church Encyclopedia”, Kraków, 1916), „Beware of Jews and Bolsheviks” (Częstochowa, 1918), „Criminals of the 20th century. Jews – Bolsheviks” (Radom, 1919)

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KRAWCZYKClick to display biography John, MĘŻYŃSKIClick to display biography Francis, PIENIĄŻEKClick to display biography Casimir, SAJNAClick to display biography Sigismund

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Palmiry: From 12.1939 till 07.1941 Germany — units of genocidal SS and Germ. Schutzpolizei (Eng. preventive police), i.e. Schupo —– in mass executions, murdered in Palmiry c. 1,700‑2,200 Poles from Warsaw, mainly the intelligentsia, as part of the «AB‑aktion», as well as Jews. The first executions took place on December 07‑08.12.1939 (70+80 victims). Among the biggest were: 26.02.1940 — c. 190 people; 02.04.1940 — c. 100. The victims were brought to the execution site by trucks, usually at dawn. Their luggage was collected at the site. Sometimes were restrained and/or blindfolded. Next were led to the edge of the dug pits where they were shot with machine gun fire. Those giving signs of life were finished off with small arms. The pits were filled in and pine thickets planted. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Warsaw (Szucha Ave.): At 25 John Christian Szucha Avenue in Warsaw — then in German–occupied General Governorate — at the heart of so‑called police district (with status Germ. „Nur für Deutsche” — End. „Only for Germans”), from 07.10.1939 headquarters of Germ. Der Kommandeur Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienst für den Distrikt Warschau (Eng. Bureau of Security Police and Security Service Commander for Warsaw District), Germans organised Warsaw HQ of Germ. Geheime Staatspolizei (Eng. Secret State Police), i.e. Gestapo. In the basements a Germ. Hausgefängnis (Eng. Detention Centre) was set. Prisoners from Warsaw prisons, mainly Pawiak (twice a day) where brought there for interrogations. Tortures were widely used — „beating (with a club, whip, rubber, iron poles, butts of pistols), kicking, setting dogs on, burning flesh with cigarettes or an iron rod (especially the face, heels and abdomen), crushing fingers and genitals, hanging on the hands at the back, breaking bones, knocking out front teeth, damaging eyeballs, strangling with a gas mask with a damaged absorber, irritating with electric current, pouring water into the nose with gagged mouth, dipping the prisoner's head in a bucket with water and holding it there until signs of suffocation, plucking out nails and driving steel needles under them” (Wikipedia). Often tortures were done with family members present. Even women in last months of pregnancy were tortured. During Warsaw Uprising of 08‑10.1944 Germans conducted mass executions in the building. Number of victims — unknown (in 06.1946 in Szucha Avenue building basements 5.5. tons of human ashes and bones were discovered). (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Warsaw (Daniłowiczowska): Warsaw central detention centre — so‑called Centralniak — used by the Germans during occupation of Poland as a court prison where people suspected of political crimes where held. Many were subsequently taken to villages n. Warsaw (e.g. Magdalenka and Anin) and executed. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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«Intelligenzaktion»: (Eng. „Action Intelligentsia”) — extermination program of Polish elites, mainly intelligentsia, executed by the Germans right from the start of the occupation in 09.1939 till around 05.1940, mainly on the lands directly incorporated into Germany but also in the so‑called General Governorate where it was called «AB‑aktion». During the first phase right after start of German occupation of Poland implemented as Germ. Unternehmen „Tannenberg” (Eng. „Tannenberg operation”) — plan based on proscription lists of Poles worked out by (Germ. Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen), regarded by Germans as specially dangerous to the German Reich. List contained names of c. 61,000 Poles. Altogether during this genocide Germans methodically murdered c. 50,000 teachers, priests, landowners, social and political activists and retired military. Further 50,000 were sent to concentration camps where most of them perished. (more on: en.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”.

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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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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Polish–Russian war of 1919‑1921: War for independence of Poland and its borders. Poland regained independence in 1918 but had to fight for its borders with former imperial powers, in particular Russia. Russia planned to incite Bolshevik–like revolutions in the Western Europe and thus invaded Poland. Russian invaders were defeated in 08.1920 in a battle called Warsaw battle („Vistula river miracle”, one of the 10 most important battles in history, according to some historians). Thanks to this victory Poland recaptured part of the lands lost during partitions of Poland in XVIII century, and Europe was saved from the genocidal Communism. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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