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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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  • SZEMBEK Francis Vladimir, source: www.meczennicy.pelplin.pl, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOSZEMBEK Francis Vladimir
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  • SZEMBEK Francis Vladimir, source: www.biskupzezloczowa.prv.pl, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOSZEMBEK Francis Vladimir
    source: www.biskupzezloczowa.prv.pl
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  • SZEMBEK Francis Vladimir - c. 19.08.1942, KL Auschwitz, concentration camp's photo; source: Archives of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim (romanikowie.pruchnik.pl), own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOSZEMBEK Francis Vladimir
    c. 19.08.1942, KL Auschwitz, concentration camp's photo
    source: Archives of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim (romanikowie.pruchnik.pl)
    own collection
  • SZEMBEK Francis Vladimir - c. 19.08.1942, KL Auschwitz, concentration camp's photo; source: Archives of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim (www.auschwitz.org), own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOSZEMBEK Francis Vladimir
    c. 19.08.1942, KL Auschwitz, concentration camp's photo
    source: Archives of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim (www.auschwitz.org)
    own collection
  • SZEMBEK Francis Vladimir - c. 19.08.1942, KL Auschwitz, concentration camp's photo; source: Archives of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim (www.auschwitz.org), own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOSZEMBEK Francis Vladimir
    c. 19.08.1942, KL Auschwitz, concentration camp's photo
    source: Archives of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim (www.auschwitz.org)
    own collection
  • SZEMBEK Francis Vladimir - Contemporary image, source: www.dolfi-wood.com, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOSZEMBEK Francis Vladimir
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  • SZEMBEK Francis Vladimir - Contemporary image, source: www.zyciezakonne.pl, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOSZEMBEK Francis Vladimir
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    source: www.zyciezakonne.pl
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religious status

Servant of God

surname

SZEMBEK

forename(s)

Francis Vladimir (pl. Franciszek Włodzimierz)

  • SZEMBEK Francis Vladimir - Commemorative plaque, St Stanislaus Kostka, Cracow, Pułaskiego str., source: www.bj.uj.edu.pl, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOSZEMBEK Francis Vladimir
    Commemorative plaque, St Stanislaus Kostka, Cracow, Pułaskiego str.
    source: www.bj.uj.edu.pl
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  • SZEMBEK Francis Vladimir - Commemorative plaque, Sacred Heart of Jesus basilica, Warsaw, source: pl.wikipedia.org, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOSZEMBEK Francis Vladimir
    Commemorative plaque, Sacred Heart of Jesus basilica, Warsaw
    source: pl.wikipedia.org
    own collection
  • SZEMBEK Francis Vladimir - Cenotaph, Salesians grave, parish cemetery, Oświęcim, source: polski-cmentarz.com, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOSZEMBEK Francis Vladimir
    Cenotaph, Salesians grave, parish cemetery, Oświęcim
    source: polski-cmentarz.com
    own collection

function

religious cleric

creed

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

congregation

Society of St Francis de Sales SDBmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

(i.e. Salesians of Don Bosco)

diocese / province

St Jack Cracow Inspectorate SDB
Cracow archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

date and place
of death

18.09.1942

KL Auschwitzconcentration camp
today: Oświęcim, Oświęcim gm., Oświęcim pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.09]

alt. dates and places
of death

07.09.1942, 22.09.1942

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of German occupation, arrested on 09.07.1942 by the Germans.

Voluntarily gave himself up for the life of Fr Valentine Kozak, who was to be arrested in reprisals for an escape by another person.

Germans however arrested both, but a fortnight later, on 22.07.1942, Fr Kozak was released and survived.

Jailed in Nowy Targ and next taken in Zakopane prisons, where was tortured.

With broken shoulder joints, cracked ribs and gangrenous leg was taken to Tarnów prison.

Finally from there on 16.09.1942 transported to KL Auschwitz concentration camp where two days after arrival perished.

Formal „cause” of death quoted on the death certificate: Germ. „Herzmuskeldegeneration” (Eng. „myocardial infarction”).

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

22.04.1883

Poręba Żegotytoday: Alwernia gm., Chrzanów pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]

alt. dates and places
of birth

02.04.1883

religious vows

10.08.1929 (temporary)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

03.06.1934 (seminar chapel of the Theological Institute „Łosiówka” in Krakowmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.09.11]
)

positions held

friar — KrakówDębniki district
today: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate Conception Society's Houses, Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

from c. 1939

friar — Skawatoday: Raba Wyżna gm., Nowy Targ pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.09.11]
⋄ Society's House, Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

treasury officer / procurator — KrakówDębniki district
today: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Theological Institute (higher theological seminary) at the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception Congregation's house (known as „Łosiówka”), 30 Tyniecka Str., Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

friar — Kopiectoday: Kłobuck gm., Kłobuck pov., Silesia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.09.11]
⋄ Society's House, Salesians of Don Bosco SDB — agronomy teacher

secretary — St Jack's Kraków Inspectorate, Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

till 1934

student — KrakówDębniki district
today: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Theological Institute (higher theological seminary) at the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception Congregation's house (known as „Łosiówka”), 30 Tyniecka Str., Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

till 1933

student — Oświęcimtoday: Oświęcim gm., Oświęcim pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ theology, Theological Institute (higher theological seminary), Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

friar — Aleksandrów Kujawskitoday: Aleksandrów Kujawski gm., Aleksandrów Kujawski pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.16]
⋄ Society's House, Salesians of Don Bosco SDB — assistance (educational and pastoral practice)

1928 – 1929

novitiate — Czerwińsk nad Wisłątoday: Czerwińsk nad Wisłą gm., Płońsk pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.02]
⋄ Society's House, Salesians of Don Bosco SDB

till 1928

administrator — family estate in the vicinity of Węgierka, Pruchnik and Kramarzówka n. Jarosław

student — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ agriculture, Jagiellonian University UJ

others related
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BUKOWSKIClick to display biography Leopold, DAŃKOWSKIClick to display biography Peter Edward, DROŹDZIKClick to display biography Peter, PRZYWARAClick to display biography Peter, ROZMUSClick to display biography Vincent, SOSINClick to display biography Joseph, STASZEWSKAClick to display biography Helen (Sr Mary Clementa), SZOTTClick to display biography Francis

murder sites
camp 
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KL Auschwitz (prisoner no: 60019Click 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: en.auschwitz.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
, www.meczennicy.pelplin.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.07.06]
)

Tarnów: The prison commissioned on 29.11.1926, considered at that time to be the most modern of its kind in Europe. During World War II and the German occupation, it functioned under the name of Germ. Deutsche Strafanstalt Tarnów (Eng. Penal Institution Tarnów) and was initially used as a transit camp for Polish prisoners of war, and then as a prison of the German political police Gestapo. In total, the Germans held about 25,000 Poles there. Many of them were shot by the Germans in the surrounding villages, others were transported to concentration camps. Among others, on 14.06.1940, a transport of 728 prisoners, who became the first prisoners of the newly established German concentration camp KL Auschwitz, was sent from the Tarnów prison. Later, about 50 such transports were sent to KL Auschwitz, and others to KL Sachsenhausen, KL Gross Rosen, KL Ravensbruck, KL Płaszów, and the children's camp in Łódź. After the end of the military operations of World War II and the beginning of the Russian occupation, political prisoners, opponents of the Commie–Nazi regime of the Russian republic known as prl, were also held there. (more on: www.sw.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
)

Zakopane (Palace): Penal institution and investigative prison set up by German political police Gestapo in „Palace” guesthouse in renown spa Zakopane at the foot of Tatra mountains. Functioned from the start of German occupation in 10.1939 to 01.1945. Place of mass executions and cruel tortures — the victims were beaten, tormented, hanged — of scores of Poles. It is estimated that c. 2,000 inmates were held captive in „Palace” prison 400 of which were murdered by the Germans — some in the prison itself, others at the local Dry Valley (pl. Sucha Dolina) cemetery. Most of the others were sent to German concentration camps, mainly KL Auschwitz, were the majority perished. (more on: z-ne.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
)

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
[access: 2013.12.04]
)

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]
)

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, www.meczennicy.pelplin.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]
, pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]

bibliographical:
Salesian Society in Poland under occupation 1939‑1945”, Fr John Pietrzykowski SDB, Institute of National Remembrance IPN, Warsaw, 2015
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