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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
PRZYSTAŚ
forename(s)
Roman
function
religious cleric
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
congregation
Society of Jesus (Jesuits - SI)more on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Lesser Poland Province SI (from 1926)
Polish Province SI (1918—26)
date and place
of death
29.09.1942
KL Dachauconcentration camp
today: Dachau, Upper Bavaria reg., Bavaria state, Germany
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alt. dates and places
of death
30.09.1942
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, decided to go through Jesuit III probation — studies in spirituality and Jesuit Society's law and regulations — in Germany.
After obtaining a relevant permission from the German police, Gestapo — under guise of deepening knowledge of German language and culture — on 09.07.1940 left Ruda Śląska and travelled with Fr Julian Łętkowski to Drezno.
There was arrested and accused of ministering to Poles in Germany.
On 01.11.1940 transported — prob. by train with an armed escort, through Hof in Bavaria, where his name got recorded in a local prison — to KL Dachau concentration camp.
Next on 13.12.1940 was transported back to KL Auschwitz concentration camp.
Finally on 04.05.1941 moved back again to KL Dachau concentration camp.
There, among others slaved in an estate several kilometers from the camp.
Perished soon.
cause of death
extermination: exhaustion and starvation
perpetrators
Germans
date and place
of birth
26.12.1908
Frysztaktoday: Frysztak gm., Strzyżów pow., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
24.06.1938 (Lublintoday: Lublin city pow., Lublin voiv., Poland
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positions held
1939 – 1940
vicar {parish: Rudaform.: Glückauf colony
today: district in Ruda Śląska, Ruda Śląska city pow., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary; residence, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits); dean.: Rudaform.: Glückauf colony
today: district in Ruda Śląska, Ruda Śląska city pow., Silesia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]}, also: operarius
1935 – 1939
student {Lublintoday: Lublin city pow., Lublin voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.08.20], theology, Theological Department („Bobolanum” college), Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}
1934 – 1935
educator {Bunkovychin .Khyriv
today: Khyriv urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.11.09], Scientific and Educational Institute (St Joseph's college), St Joseph Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary monastery „in Khyriv”, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}, also: teacher of mathematics and geography
1931 – 1934
student {Krakówtoday: Kraków city pow., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.07], philosophy, college (Lat. Collegium Maximum SS. Cordis Iesu), 26 Kopernik Str., Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}
28.07.1925
accession {Stara Wieśtoday: Brzozów gm., Brzozów pow., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Assumption into Heaven of the Blessed Mary monastery, Society of Jesus SI (Jesuits)}
others related
in death
ŁĘTKOWSKIClick to display biography Julian
murder sites
camp
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KL Dachau (prisoner no: 25272Click 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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KL Auschwitz (prisoner no: 6993Click to display biography): German KL Auschwitz concentration camp (Germ. Konzentrationslager) and death camp (Germ. Vernichtungslager) camp was set up by Germans around 27.01.1940 n. Oświęcim, on the German territory (initially in Germ. Provinz Schlesien — Silesia Province; and from 1941 Germ. Provinz Oberschlesien — Upper Silesia Province). Initially mainly Poles were interned. From 1942 it became the centre for holocaust of European Jews. Part of the KL Auschwitz concentration camps’ complex was death camp (Germ. Vernichtungslager) KL Auschwitz II Birkenau, located not far away from the main camp. There Germans murder possibly in excess of million people, mainly Jews, in gas chambers. Altogether In excess of 400 priests and religious went through the KL Auschwitz, approx. 40% of which were murdered (mainly Poles). (more on: www.meczennicy.pelplin.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.07.06])
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
[access: 2015.09.30])
sources
personal:
ruda_parafianin.republika.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], www.miejscapamiecinarodowej.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.02.15], arolsen-archives.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13], www.ipgs.usClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], archive.todayClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
bibliograhical:, „Jesuits on Polish and Lithuanian territory knowledge encyclopedia, 1564‑1995”, Fr Louis Grzebień SI (editor), WAM Printing House, Cracow 1996,
original images:
ruda_parafianin.republika.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], www.auschwitz.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18], www.auschwitz.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18], www.auschwitz.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.11.18], www.sowiniec.com.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14], college.holycross.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19], www.miejscapamiecinarodowej.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]
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