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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland
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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland
XX century (1914 – 1989)
personal data
surname
SZYDZIK
forename(s)
Joseph (pl. Józef)
function
diocesan priest
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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diocese / province
Culm (Chełmno) diocesemore on
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honorary titles
Papal chamberlainmore on
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[access: 2014.11.22]
prelatemore on
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[access: 2014.11.14]
protonotary apostolic (mitre) „in imitation” (ad instar)more on
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[access: 2014.11.22]
Knight's Cross „Polonia Restituta”more on
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[access: 2019.04.16]
„Medal of Independence”more on
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[access: 2019.02.02]
Silver „Cross of Merit”more on
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[access: 2019.04.16]
Badge of the Pomeranian Military Organization 1918—1920
date and place
of death
29.09.1939
Bydgoszcztoday: Bydgoszcz city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of death
20.09.1939, 27.09.1939, 10/11.1939
Fordontoday: district of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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details of death
While studying at gymnasium in Brodnica — during Prussian times (partitions of Poland) — member (1886‑1891) and leader (1890‑1891) of the gymnasium chapter of a clandestine Polish self–education Karol Marcinkowski's Pomeranian Philomaths organization In 1918, after the abdication of the German Emperor Wilhelm II on 09.11.1918, on the day of the armistice between the Allies and Germany signed on 11.11.1918 in the HQ train wagon of Marshal of France Ferdinand Foch in Compiègne — which de facto meant the end of World War I — Germans living in Chojnice founded the Workers' and Soldiers' Council, modeled on similar councils in Bolshevik Russia, which, of course, did not postulate the reconstruction of the Polish state. In response — after the Regency Council appointed few year earlier by the Germans, operating in the area occupied by the Germans, the so‑called General Governorate, transferred the supreme authority over the army to Brigadier Joseph Piłsudski and appointed him commander‑in‑chief of the Polish army, which de facto meant the rebirth of the Polish state — became 15.11.1918 the chairman of the still acting clandestinely Polish Citizens' Committee in Chojnice.
On 02.12.1918, the Polish District People's Council was established openly in Chojnice — after the Polish People's Council was revealed on 11.11.1918 in Poznań, in the Prussian/German partition, renamed the Supreme People's Council three days later. On her behalf, became a delegate to the Polish District Seym in Poznań held on 03‑05.12.1918, where delegates from the lands of the Prussian/German partition, i.e. Greater Poland, Gdańsk Pomerania, Silesia and Warmia and Mazury, expressed, among others, the will to create a united Polish state with access to the sea.
On 11.12.1918, became the chairman of the County People's Council in Chojnice, and on 17.08.1919, a member of the liquidation commission established by it, the purpose of which was to eliminate the structures of German administration in the Chojnice county.
After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II arrested by the Germans on 20.09.1939.
Jailed in a transit camp in Bydgoszcz.
Was seen in the German secret police Gestapo offices and in military barracks with a white cross painted on the back.
Disappeared, probably murdered by a lethal injection.
cause of death
murder
perpetrators
Germans
date and place
of birth
19.10.1871
Mikołajkitoday: Mikołajki gm., Mrągowo pov., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth
18.10.1871
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
23.03.1896 (Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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positions held
1938 – 1939
parish priest — Fordontoday: district of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] ⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Fordontoday: district of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] RC deanery
till 1939
Bishop's delegate — Lubawa region, Bishop's Commissariat ⋄ Lubawa region, Bishop's Commissariat
1926 – 1939
membership — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.05.06] ⋄ College of Consultors, Diocesan Curia
1929 – 1938
dean — Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] RC deanery
1924 – 1938
parish priest — Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] ⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] RC deanery
editor — Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] ⋄ „Church News”
chaplain — Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] ⋄ 1st Scout Team
president — Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] ⋄ branch, Polish Touring Society
president — Chełmżatoday: Chełmża urban gm., Toruń pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] ⋄ People's Reading Rooms Society
1905 – 1924
parish priest — Wieletoday: Korsin gm., Kościerzyna pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28] ⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Tucholatoday: Tuchola gm., Tuchola pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] RC deanery — the originator and builder of Wiele Calvary as well as the co–founder and director of the People's Bank in Wiele
1903 – 1905
parish priest — Ostródatoday: Ostróda urban gm., Ostróda pov., Warmia–Masuria voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18] ⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish — also: prefect of gymnasium and lyceum, military chaplain in Prussian „Berg Barracks” and „ Grollman Barracks”
curatus/rector/expositus — Chojnicetoday: Chojnice urban gm., Chojnice pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] ⋄ Correctional House ⋄ Beheading of St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Człuchówtoday: Człuchów gm., Człuchów pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] RC deanery
vicar — Chojnicetoday: Chojnice urban gm., Chojnice pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] ⋄ Beheading of St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Człuchówtoday: Człuchów gm., Człuchów pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02] RC deanery
1897
vicar — Pączewotoday: Skórcz gm., Starogard Gdański pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28] ⋄ Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Gniewtoday: Gniew gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.29] RC deanery
1896 – 1897
vicar — Oliwatoday: district in Gdańsk, Gdańsk city pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.07.16] ⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Gdańsk Ideanery name
today: Gdańsk city pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.04] RC deanery
1891 – 1896
student — Pelplintoday: Pelplin gm., Tczew pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.05.06] ⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary
1906 – 1939
membership — Toruńtoday: Toruń city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.06.20] ⋄ scientific society
Catholic journalist, co‑author of „Churches and Monasteries of Grudziądz” book, 1928
others related
in death
JAKUBOWSKIClick to display biography John, ŁASKIClick to display biography Louis, SZAREKClick to display biography Peter, WIOREKClick to display biography Stanislav, RASZKOWSKIClick to display biography Hubert
murder sites
camp
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Fordon: In the „Valley of Death” in Fordon, where from 10.10.1939 till 11.11.1939 Germans murdered — as a part of «Intelligenzaktion» aimed at extermination of Polish intelligentsia and ruling classes in Pomerania — 1,200‑3,000 Poles from Bydgoszcz, mainly from intelligentsia. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23])
Tryszczyn: In the vicinity of Tryszczyn (10 km from Bydgoszcz) Germans — as a part of «Intelligenzaktion» aimed at extermination of Polish intelligentsia and ruling classes in Pomerania — murdered from 09.1939 till 10.1939 approx. 900 inhabitants of Bydgoszcz and surrounding villages. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19])
IL Bromberg: Germ. „Internierungslager” (Eng. „Internment camp”) set up on 05.09.1939 — the day Germans took over Bydgoszcz — in 15 Greater Poland Light Artillery Regiment military barracks at 147 Gdańska Str. in Bydgoszcz. In 09.1939 only c. 3,500 Poles were jailed there. Prisoners were held in f. stables or f. armory building. They were maltreated and tortured. Some were shot on the spot (c. 28 victims in 09.1939). Next they were sent to concentration camps throughout Germany. Some were taken to mass execution sites in nearby forests and murdered. On 01.11.1939 the camp was moved to f. ammunition warehouses in Jachcice town district. The camp was closed in 12.1939. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30])
«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
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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 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
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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
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Thomas Zan Societies: Secret societies of Polish youth, aiming at self–education, patriotic in form and content, functioning 1830‑1920, in mutiny against enforced Germanisation and censure of Polish culture, mainly in secondary schools — gymnasia — mainly in Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) and later in Silesia. The first groups were formed in 1817. In 1897 a congress in Bydgoszcz was held when rules of clandestine activities were formulated. At other congress in Bydgoszcz in Poznań a „Red Rose” society was formed, heading all others groups in various gymnasiums and coordinating their activities. In 1900 „Red Rose” consolidated Philomaths organizations from Pomerania as well. After Toruń trial of Pomeranian Philomaths in Toruń Germans arrested 24 members of Thomas Zan Society from Gniezno. 21 of them were sentenced up to 6 weeks in prison and reprimands. All were relegated from schools without the right to continue education in secondary and higher schools in Prussia. Despite repression the Societies existed till 1918 and rebirth of Poland. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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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:
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[access: 2015.09.30], www.swzygmunt.knc.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30], www.kpbc.ukw.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.04]
bibliographical:
„Biographical dictionary of priests of the Chełmno diocese ordained in the years 1821‑1920”, Henry Mross, Pelplin, 1995
original images:
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