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

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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

POŁOMSKI

forename(s)

Leo (pl. Leon)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Culm (Chełmno) diocesemore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2012.11.23]

honorary titles

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

date and place
of death

05.08.1940

KL Stutthofconcentration camp
today: Sztutowo, Sztutowo gm., Nowy Dwór Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland

more on
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[access: 2022.01.09]

details of death

During German occupation (Prussian partition of Poland), while studying at the Germ. Königliches Katholisches Gymnasium (Eng. Royal Catholic Gymnasium) in Brodnica, member of the school chapter of the Polish clandestine student self–education Pomeranian Philomaths organization.

In c. 1910, while ministering in Niezabyszewo, submitted an application to the German authorities to build and open a Polish school — in response received an order to leave the parish.

After the abdication of the German Emperor William II Hohenzollern on 09.11.1918, after the armistice between the Allies and Germany signed on 11.11.1918 in the HQ wagon in Compiègne, the HQ of French Marshal Ferdinand Foch — which de facto meant the end of World War I; after transfer of the supreme authority over the Polish army to Brigadier Joseph Piłsudski as its commander‑in‑chief — which de facto meant the rebirth of the Polish state — member of County People's Council in Puck, established in response to the self‑disclosure and founding on 11.11.1918 in Poznań, in the Prussian/German part of partitioned Poland, of the Polish People's Council opting for Poland.

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 in 1939 — denounced for hearing confessions in Polish.

Released thanks to a guarantee by a protestant pastor.

Arrested again on 25.05.1940 (or 16.06.1940) by the Germans.

In chains dragged through Kartuzy to the local prison and next to Gdańsk prison.

From there transported to KL Stutthof concentration camp where perished: on 03.08.1940 beaten up by German kapo, died two days later.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

28.06.1875

Gdańsktoday: Gdańsk city pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.04]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

17.03.1901 (Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.05.06]
)

positions held

1927 – 1939

parish priest — Kartuzytoday: Kartuzy gm., Kartuzy pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Kartuzytoday: Kartuzy gm., Kartuzy pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery — also: inspector of religious education in elementary schools in the deanery

president — Kartuzytoday: Kartuzy gm., Kartuzy pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ branch, People's Reading Rooms Society

1915 – 1927

parish priest — Strzelnotoday: Puck gm., Puck pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ St Mary Magdalene RC parish ⋄ Pucktoday: Puck gm., Puck pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.18]
RC deanery

1910 – 1915

curatus/rector/expositus — Wielowicztoday: Sośno gm., Sępólno Krajeńskie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ St James the Apostle RC church ⋄ Więcborktoday: Więcbork gm., Sępólno Krajeńskie pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.02.24]
, St Simon and St Judas Thaddaeus the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Kamień Pomorskitoday: Kamień Krajeński, Kamień Krajeński gm., Sępólno Krajeńskie pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.02]
RC deanery

1908 – 1910

administrator — Niezabyszewotoday: Bytów gm., Bytów pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Lęborktoday: Lębork urban gm., Lębork pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]
RC deanery

1907

administrator — Papowo Biskupietoday: Papowo Biskupie gm., Chełmno pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish

1907

vicar — Koczałatoday: Koczała gm., Człuchów pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish

vicar — Grzybnotoday: Unisław gm., Chełmno pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.02.24]
⋄ St Michael the Archangel RC parish

vicar — Pucktoday: Puck gm., Puck pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Pucktoday: Puck gm., Puck pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.07.18]
RC deanery

vicar — Kielnotoday: Szemud gm., Wejherowo pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ St Adalbert the Bishop and Martyr RC parish

1897 – 1901

student — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.05.06]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

1904 – 1921

membership — Toruńtoday: Toruń city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.20]
⋄ scientific society

others related
in death

BOLTClick to display biography Felix, BORKOWSKIClick to display biography Paul, BRUDNICKIClick to display biography Alexander, BRZEZIŃSKIClick to display biography Paul John, CZAPLEWSKIClick to display biography John Bruno, DOMACHOWSKIClick to display biography Joseph, FARULEWSKIClick to display biography Thaddeus, GÓRECKIClick to display biography Marian, GRABOWSKI–WIDŁAKClick to display biography Casimir, GUMPERTClick to display biography Steven Edward, KALINOWSKIClick to display biography Anthony, KARBAUMClick to display biography Ernest, KOMOROWSKIClick to display biography Bronislav, KREFFTClick to display biography Constantine Francis, KUBICKIClick to display biography Telesphorus, LESIŃSKIClick to display biography Alex, LESIŃSKIClick to display biography John, ŁĘGOWSKIClick to display biography Vladislav Leonard, MALINOWSKIClick to display biography Thaddeus, MAŁKOWSKIClick to display biography Julius, MAŃKOWSKIClick to display biography Alphonse, MATERNICKIClick to display biography Vladislav, MAZELLAClick to display biography John, NIEMIRClick to display biography Joseph, OSSOWSKIClick to display biography Valerian, RODZIŃSKAClick to display biography Stanislava (Sr Mary Julia), ROGACZEWSKIClick to display biography Francis, RÓŻYCKIClick to display biography Mieczyslav, RYGLEWICZClick to display biography John, SĄDECKIClick to display biography Bernard, SARNOWSKIClick to display biography Joseph, SCHULZClick to display biography Alphonse Vaclav, SEPEŁOWSKIClick to display biography Vaclav, SMOLEŃSKIClick to display biography Bronislav, SROKAClick to display biography Leo Florian, SZWEDOWSKIClick to display biography Ignatius Mieczyslav, SZYMAŃSKIClick to display biography John Damasus, SZYMAŃSKIClick to display biography Vladislav, WIECKIClick to display biography Bernard Anthony, WILMOWSKIClick to display biography John

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

KL Stutthof (prisoner no: 9981Click to display biography): In KL Stutthof (then in Eastern Prussian belonging to Germany, today: Sztutowo village) concentration camp, that Germans started to build on 02.09.1939, a day after German invasion of Poland and start of the World War II, Germans held c. 100‑127 thousands prisoners from 28 countries, including 47 thousands women and children. C. 65,000 victims were murdered and exterminated. In the period of 25.01–27.04.1945 in the face of approaching Russian army Germans evacuated the camp. When on 09.05.1945 Russians soldiers entered the camp only 100 prisoners were still there. In an initial period (1939‑40) Polish Catholic priests from Pomerania were held captive there before being transported to KL Dachau concentration camp. Some of them were murdered in KL Stutthof or vicinity (for instance in Stegna forest). Also later some Catholic priests were held in KL Stutthof. (more on: stutthof.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18]
, en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.07.06]
)

Gdańsk (prison): During World War II German prison where many Kashubian activists and resistance fighters were held. Death sentences — through guillotine beheading — were also carried out there. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30]
)

Kartuzy: Detention centre run by Germans. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
)

«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]
)

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
[access: 2023.05.28]
, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

Pomeranian Philomaths: Secret societies of Polish youth, aiming at self–education, patriotic in form and content, functioning 1830‑1920, mainly in secondary schools — gymnasia — in Pomerania around Vistula river (Gdańsk Pomerania and Chełmno county), in Prussian–occupied Polish territories (one of the partitions of Poland). On 08.01.1901 Germans conducted a series of interrogations of students at Chełmno, Brodnica and Toruń gymnasiums. On 09‑12.09.1901 the first of court trials of Polish students from those gymnasiums and students of Theological Seminary in Pelplin was held in Toruń. 1 person was sentenced to 3 months in prison, 1 to 2 months, 3 to 6 weeks, 7 to 3 weeks, 2 to 2 weeks, 19 to a week, 2 to 1 day, 10 were reprimanded. 15 were cleared. More definitive penalties were relegations from the schools with so‑called wolf’s ticket, forbidding sentenced students to continue secondary and higher studies in Prussia (Germany). Among those penalized were a few future Catholic priests — those were able to continue their education for the Chełmno diocese bishop, Bp August Rosentreter, refused to relegate students from Theological Seminary. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18]
)

sources

personal:
www.opatrznosc.gda.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.01.13]
, www.niedziela.diecezja.torun.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.01.13]
, www.muzeum-kaszubskie.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
, pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.09.02]
, www.gazetakartuska.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]

bibliographical:
Biographical dictionary of priests of the Chełmno diocese ordained in the years 1821‑1920”, Henry Mross, Pelplin, 1995
original images:
archiwum.allegro.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.05.06]

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