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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)
personal data
surname
PIEKIELIŃSKI
surname
versions/aliases
PIEKIELNY
forename(s)
Joseph (pl. Józef)
function
diocesan priest
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Częstochowa diocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
Włocławek ie. Kalisz diocese
date and place
of death
09.03.1942
KL Dachauconcentration camp
today: Dachau, Upper Bavaria reg., Bavaria state, Germany
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details of death
After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the II World War, after start of German occupation, or the first time arrested by the Germans on 08‑11.11.1939.
Held in Wieluń prison.
Released after two days.
On 06.10.1941 arrested for the second time by the Germans.
Taken to Wieluń and next interned in Konstantynów (previously in Łódź–Radogoszcz) transit camp.
Finally on 30.10.1941 transported to KL Dachau concentration camp where perished.
cause of death
extermination: exhaustion and starvation
perpetrators
Germans
date and place
of birth
04.02.1897
Szadektoday: Szadek gm., Zduńska Wola pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth
01.02.1897, 04.09.1897
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
17.08.1919 (Włocławek cathedral)
positions held
1932 – 1941
parish priest {parish: Jaworznotoday: Rudniki gm., Olesno pow., Opole voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Holy Trinity; dean.: Praszkatoday: Praszka gm., Olesno pow., Opole voiv., Poland
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1929 – 1932
vicar {parish: SosnowiecPogoń district
today: Sosnowiec city pow., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.12.11], St Thomas the Apostle; dean.: Będzintoday: Będzin pow., Silesia voiv., Poland
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1926 – 1929
vicar {parish: Osjakówtoday: Osjaków gm., Wieluń pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.01], St Hedwig of Silesia; church: St Casimir the Prince and Confessor; dean.: Wieluńtoday: Wieluń gm., Wieluń pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]}
1922 – 1926
vicar {parish: Bogdanówtoday: Wola Krzysztoporska gm., Piotrków Trybunalski pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.12.11], Holy Trinity; dean.: Gorzkowicetoday: Gorzkowice gm., Piotrków Trybunalski pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
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1921 – 1922
prefect {parish: Konintoday: Konin city pow., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.19], St Bartholomew the Apostle; dean.: Konintoday: Konin city pow., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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1921
prefect {parish: Rakówtoday: district of Częstochowa, Częstochowa city pow., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], St Joseph the Craftsman; chapel: Our Lady of the Rosary; dean.: Częstochowatoday: Częstochowa city pow., Silesia voiv., Poland
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1920 – 1921
vicar {parish: Iwanowicetoday: Szczytniki gm., Kalisz pow., Greater Poland voiv., Poland, St Catherine the Virgin and Martyr; dean.: Stawtoday: Szczytniki gm., Kalisz pow., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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1920
vicar {parish: Mierzyntoday: Rozprza gm., Piotrków Trybunalski pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.12.11], Blessed Virgin Mary and St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor; dean.: Gorzkowicetoday: Gorzkowice gm., Piotrków Trybunalski pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
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1919 – 1920
vicar {parish: Dobrzectoday: Dobro neighborhood in Kalisz, Kalisz city pow., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.12.16], St Michael the Archangel; dean.: Kalisztoday: Kalisz city pow., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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1915 – 1919
student {Włocławektoday: Włocławek city pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary}
comments
The urn containing the ashes of the victim — the body was prob. cremated at Germ. Ostfriedhof (Eng. Eastern cemetery) in Munich — is being kept in Am Perlacher Forst cemetery, at place known as Germ. Ehrenhain I (Eng. „Remembrance Grove nr 1”), in Munich (marked as urn no K2607)
murder sites
camp
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KL Dachau (prisoner no: 28316Click to display biography): KL Dachau in German Bavaria, set up in 1933, became the main concentration camp for Catholic priests and religious during II World War: On c. 09.11.1940, Reichsführer–SS Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, Gestapo and German police, as a result of the Vatican's intervention, decided to transfer all clergymen detained in various concentration camps to KL Dachau camp. The first major transports took place on 08.12.1940. In KL Dachau Germans held approx. 3,000 priests, including 1,800 Poles. They were forced to slave at so‑called „Plantags”, doing manual field works, at constructions, including crematorium. In the barracks ruled hunger, freezing cold in the winter and suffocating heat during the summer. Prisoners suffered from bouts of illnesses, including tuberculosis. Many were victims of murderous „medical experiments” — in 11.1942 c. 20 were given phlegmon injections; in 07.1942 to 05.1944 c. 120 were used by for malaria experiments. More than 750 Polish clerics where murdered by the Germans, some brought to Schloss Hartheim euthanasia centre and murdered in gas chambers. At its peak KL Dachau concentration camps’ system had nearly 100 slave labour sub–camps located throughout southern Germany and Austria. There were c. 32,000 documented deaths at the camp, and thousands perished without a trace. C. 10,000 of the 30,000 inmates were found sick at the time of liberation, on 29.04.1945, by the USA troops… (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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DL Konstantinow: German Germ. Durchgangslager (Eng. Transit camp), resettlement concentration camp established on 05.01.1940 in Konstantynów Łódzki (c. 10 km west of the center of Łódź), and operational till 16.08.1943. Polish prisoners from Greater Poland (Wielkopolska), Pomerania and central Poland were held there. Approx. 42,000 were interned, thousands of them perished out of which approx. 700 were identified. In 10.1941‑12.1941 approx. 450 Polish priests and religious from Częstochowa, Łódź and Włocławek dioceses and Poznań archdiocese were imprisoned there prior to transport to KL Dachau concentration camp. (more on: ipn.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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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.
EtG Radegast: Resettlement camp (as part of German resettlement „program” for Poles in 1939), then co–functioning with transit–concentration camp (during genocidal German Intelligenzaktion Litzmannstadt in 1939‑40), finally changed into Germ. Erweitertes Polizeigefängnis (Eng. Expanded Police prison), in Radogoszcz n. Łódź, operational from 1939 till 1945, for Poles from Łódź region. Probably in excess of 40,000 people were held there. For religious this was a transit camp before transfer to KL Dachau concentration camp. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30])
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
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bibliograhical:, „Urns kept at the Am Perlacher Forst cemetery — analysis”, Mr Gregory Wróbel, curator of the Museum of Independence Traditions in Łódź, private correspondence, 25.05.2020, „Schematismus Universi Venerabilis Cleri Saecularis et Regularis Dioecesis CzęstochoviensisClick to display biography”, Częstochowa diocesa Curia, 1926‑39, diocesan printing house,
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