Roman Catholic
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
ŚLIWA
forename(s)
Joseph (pl. Józef)
function
diocesan priest
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Lutsk diocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
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[access: 2014.12.20]
date and place
of death
02.10.1942
KL Dachauconcentration camp
today: Dachau, Upper Bavaria reg., Bavaria state, Germany
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[access: 2016.05.30]
details of death
28.04.1939 nominated chaplain of the Polish Army reserve.
In 08.1939 mobilised.
After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II ministered as a chaplain at 2nd Mounted Riflemen Regiment of Volyn Cavalry Brigade within „Łódź” Army.
Prob. avoided capture and arrest — his regiment was crushed by Germans on 23.09.1939 by Dominikanówka village in Zamość county.
Unable to return to his parish and diocese (in Russian occupied zone) remained in Lubaczów county, in Lviv diocese, on the territories occupied by Germans, in the so‑called General Governorate. Ministered in Bruśno Nowe and Cieszanów parishes while founding? and serving as a chaplain in the „Maple” resistance organization (part of Polish Clandestine State).
In 1941 in Huta Różaniecka denounced by Ukrainian police and arrested by German Gestapo.
Jailed in Dubno and on 06.04.1941 sent to KL Auschwitz concentration camp.
From there on 04.05.1941 transported to KL Dachau concentration camp where perished.
cause of death
extermination: exhaustion and starvation
perpetrators
Germans
date and place
of birth
28.04.1905
Tarnorudatoday: Volochysk urban hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
1928
positions held
1939 – 1941
priest {parish: Płazówtoday: Narol gm., Lubaczów pow., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.20], Holy Trinity and St Michael the Archangel; church: Huta Różanieckatoday: Narol gm., Lubaczów pow., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.07.05], Christ the King; dean.: Lubaczówtoday: Lubaczów urban gm., Lubaczów pow., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.20]; dioc.: Lviv}
1939 – 1941
priest {parish: Cieszanówtoday: Cieszanów gm., Lubaczów pow., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.20], St Adalbert the Bishop and Martyr; dean.: Lubaczówtoday: Lubaczów urban gm., Lubaczów pow., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.20]; dioc.: Lviv (Armenian)}
1939 – 1941
priest {parish: Brusno Nowetoday: Horyniec–Zdrój gm., Lubaczów pow., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.06.29], Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Lubaczówtoday: Lubaczów urban gm., Lubaczów pow., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.11.20]; dioc.: Lviv}
1938 – 1939
parish priest {parish: Boremeltoday: Boremel hrom., Dubno rai., Rivne obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.07.05], Holy Trinity; dean.: Berestechkotoday: Berestechko urban hrom., Lutsk rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.27]}
1936 – 1937
administrator {parish: Kalinówkan. Okhnivka village
today: village non–existent, Ovadne hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.07.05], Our Lady of Częstochowa; dean.: Volodymyr–Volynskyitoday: Volodymyr, Volodymyr urban hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2020.07.31]}
1932 – c. 1934
vicar {parish: Volodymyr–Volynskyitoday: Volodymyr, Volodymyr urban hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2020.07.31], main parish St Joachim and St Anne; chapel: Bilyntoday: Ovadne hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.07.05], Exaltation of the Holy Cross; dean.: Volodymyr–Volynskyitoday: Volodymyr, Volodymyr urban hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2020.07.31]}, also: prefect of elementary schools
1930 – 1931
vicar {parish: Koretstoday: Korets urban hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.12.19], main parish Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary}, prefect
1929
prefect {parish: Sarnytoday: Sarny urban hrom., Sarny rai., Rivne obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.07.05], Sacred Heart of Jesus; school(s) in the parish; dean.: Sarnytoday: Sarny urban hrom., Sarny rai., Rivne obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.07.05]}
1928
prefect {parish: Kivertsitoday: Kivertsi hrom., Lutsk rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.07.05], Sacred Heart of Jesus; school(s) in the parish; dean.: Lutsktoday: Lutsk city rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17]}
1926 – 1928
student {Lutsktoday: Lutsk city rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17], philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary}
1923 – 1926
student {Łomżatoday: Łomża city pow., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.01.28], philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary}
murder sites
camp
(+ prisoner no)
KL Dachau (prisoner no: 25304Click 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
[access: 2016.05.30])
KL Auschwitz (prisoner no: 14110Click 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])
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 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:
www.niedziela.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.12.28], www.duszki.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], arolsen-archives.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13], www.ipgs.usClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
bibliograhical:, „Martyrology of the Polish Roman Catholic clergy under nazi occupation in 1939‑1945”, Victor Jacewicz, John Woś, vol. I‑V, Warsaw Theological Academy, 1977‑1981, „Register of Latin rite Lviv metropolis clergy’s losses in 1939‑45”, Józef Krętosz, Maria Pawłowiczowa, editors, Opole, 2005, „Biographical lexicon of Lviv Roman Catholic Metropoly clergy victims of the II World War 1939‑1945”, Mary Pawłowiczowa (ed.), Fr Joseph Krętosz (ed.), Holy Cross Publishing, Opole, 2007,
original images:
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