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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
religious status
Servant of God
surname
PIENIĄŻEK
forename(s)
Casimir (pl. Kazimierz)
function
religious cleric
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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congregation
Congregation of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Resurrectionist Fathers - CR)more on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
academic distinctions
Doctor of Canon Law
Bachelor of Theology
date and place
of death
02.04.1940
Palmirytoday: Czosnów gm., Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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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, arrested by the Germans on 17.01.1940 in Warsaw, during a search of his Congregation's house premises — refused to hand in to the Germans the funds collected for construction of a new church.
Held at an arrest at Rakowiecka Str. and Pawiak prison.
Beaten and tortured.
Next on c. 25.03.1940 transported to Modlin fortress — prob. to KL Pomiechówek Fort III concentration camp or a transit camp in fortress' Fort I founded there.
From there taken to an execution site in Palmiry n. Warsaw and murdered.
cause of death
mass murder
perpetrators
Germans
date and place
of birth
04.03.1907
Chęcinytoday: Górzno gm., Garwolin pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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religious vows
08.03.1927 (temporary)
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
10.06.1933
positions held
1938 – 1940
superior of the Congregation's house and rector of the church {church: Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.10.09], St Casimir; Congregation's house at 21A Chełmska Str., Congregation of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ CR — Resurrectionists; dean.: Warsaw–capitaldeanery name
today: Warsaw city pow., Masovia voiv., Poland}
1937 – 1938
friar {church: Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.10.09], St Casimir; Congregation's house at 21A Chełmska Str., Congregation of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ CR — Resurrectionists; dean.: Warsaw–capitaldeanery name
today: Warsaw city pow., Masovia voiv., Poland}, treasury officer / procurator of the Congregation's house and rectory church
1934 – 1937
PhD student {Rometoday: Rome prov., Lazio reg., Italy
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[access: 2021.12.18], canon law, Pontifical Gregorian University (Lat. Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana) – „Gregorianum”}, PhD thesis Lat. „De patrimonio Ecclesiae in Polonia iuxta concordatum ex Anno 1925” (Eng. „Properties of the Church in Poland according to the concordat of 1925”); also a batchelor degree in theology, deputy director of the seminary (house of studies) at the Generalate in Via di San Sebastianello, assistant to the novice master (1936‑7)
till 1934
student {Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16], canon law, Department of Theology, John Casimir University — clandestine, underground /1941‑1944/, Ivan Franko University /1940‑1941/, John Casimir University /1919‑1939/, Franciscan University /1817‑1918/}, specialized studies, completed with a master's degree; also: resident and chronicler of the Congregation's house the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus church, 59 Piekarska Str., and vice–principal of the boarding hall
till c. 1933
student {Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16], philosophy and theology, Department of Theology, John Casimir University — clandestine, underground /1941‑1944/, Ivan Franko University /1940‑1941/, John Casimir University /1919‑1939/, Franciscan University /1817‑1918/}, resident of the House of Study in the Congregation's house by the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus church, 59 Piekarska Str.
till c. 1926
novitiate {Krakówtoday: Kraków city pow., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07], Congregation's house at Łobzowska Str., Congregation of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ CR — Resurrectionists}
1924
accession {Krakówtoday: Kraków city pow., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07], Congregation's house at Łobzowska Str., Congregation of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ CR — Resurrectionists}
others related
in death
KRAWCZYKClick to display biography John, MĘŻYŃSKIClick to display biography Francis, NOWAKOWSKIClick to display biography Marcel, SAJNAClick to display biography Sigismund
murder sites
camp
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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 operation, 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
[access: 2022.08.17])
KL Pomiechówek Fort III: German concentration camp — formally known as Germ. Polizei Gefängnis (Eng. police prison), but also Germ. Todeslager (Eng. death camp), torture camp or Germ. Durchgangslager (Eng. transit camp) — set–up by Germans in military forts of Fortress Modlin n. Warsaw, largest in German occupied northern Masovia, in Germ. Regierungsbezirk Zichenau (Eng. Ciechanów Regency), part of German province Germ. Ostpreußen (Eng. East Prussia), where German state law was in force. In 1941‑4 from 50,000 to 100,000 prisoners were held there, in atrocious conditions, mainly Poles, members of clandestine resistance organizations (part of Polish Clandestine State), but also Jews (till 1943). Thousands were murdered (including c. 6‑10 thousands of Jews) — an unambiguous determination of the number of murdered is impossible, for from the beginning of 1944 the Germans started to wipe out the traces of the crimes. During camp closure Germans murdered all remaining inmates (apart from approx. 25 women). (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.06.23])
Pawiak: Investigative prison in Warsaw, built by the Russian occupiers of Poland in 1830‑5. During the Poland partition's period, a Russian investigative prison, both criminal and political. During World War II and the German occupation, the largest German prison in the General Government. Initially, it was subordinate to the Justice Department of the General Governorate, and from 03.1940 Germ. Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienst (Eng. Security Police and Security Service) of the Warsaw District — in particular the German Secret Political Police Gestapo. c. 3,000 prisoners were kept in Pawiak permanently, of which about 2,200 in the men's unit and c. 800 in the women's unit (the so‑called Serbia) — with a „capacity” of c. 1,000 prisoners. In total, in the years 1939–1944, c. 100,000 Poles passed through the prison, of which c. 37,000 were murdered in executions — from 10.1943 Pawiak prisoners were murdered in open executions on the streets of Warsaw (sometimes several times a day) — during interrogations, in cells or in a prison „hospital”, and c. 60,000 were taken in 95 transports to concentration camps (mainly KL Auischwitz), other places of isolation or to forced labor. The prison Germans demolished during the Warsaw Uprising in 08‑10.1944. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.08.17])
Warsaw (Mokotów): Prison and detention centre in Warsaw on Rakowiecka str. Used by Germans during German occupation 1939‑45 to held thousands of Poles. In 1945‑56 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])
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
[access: 2014.10.04])
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 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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