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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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  • ZIEMIAŁKOWSKA Hedwig (Sr Dominica of the Sacred Wounds of Jesus) - post-mortem photo, c. 25.01.1941, Puszczykowo; source: thanks to Sr Flavia Paciorek CSDP (private correspondence, 24.03.2023), own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOZIEMIAŁKOWSKA Hedwig (Sr Dominica of the Sacred Wounds of Jesus)
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surname

ZIEMIAŁKOWSKA

forename(s)

Hedwig (pl. Jadwiga)

religious forename(s)

Dominica of the Sacred Wounds of Jesus (pl. Dominika od Najświętszych Ran Pana Jezusa)

function

nun

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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congregation

Congregation of the Shepherdess' Sisters of Divine Providence CSDP
(i.e. Shepherd Sisters)

date and place
of death

24.08.1941

Łódźtoday: Łódź city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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details of death

After the German invasion of Poland on 01.09.1939 (the Russians attacked Poland 17 days later) and the start of World War II, after start of the German occupation, evicted on 07.10.1939 by the Germans from Jabłonowo Pomorskie Congregation's General House.

Forced to move do Dębowa Łąka, where Germans organized an internment camp for local clergy and religious.

Next moved in Poznań, prob. to the Motherhouse, still occupied by the Congregation at that time.

When on 11.01.1941, the Germans evicted the nuns from the Motherhouse and transported them to the Nonnenlager–Schmückert internment camp, prob. went into hiding in Poznań.

At some point, threatened with arrest, moved to Łódź (at that time, like Poznań, located in the German province of Warthegau, i.e. Eng. Wartheland, established on the territory of German–occupied Greater Poland), where the Congregation continued to run, in accordance with its vocation, St Mary Magdalene venereology hospital, at 13‑15 Tramwajowa Str. There soon perished.

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

29.09.1874

Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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religious vows

20.06.1902 (permanent)

positions held

till 1939

vicar general — Jabłonowo Pomorskietoday: Jabłonowo Pomorskie gm., Brodnica pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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⋄ General House, Shepherd Sisters CSDP

nun — Shepherd Sisters CSDP — performed many functions: superior of the house, class teacher (tutor) of girls–ward, fundraiser

15.10.1898

accession — Shepherd Sisters CSDP

others related
in death

DERKACZEWSKAClick to display biography Stanislava (Sr Raphaella of the Holy Face), OSSOWSKAClick to display biography Ottilia (Sr Cirilla), POLITYCKAClick to display biography Mary (Sr Seraphina), WÓRÓWNAClick to display biography Catherine (Sr Zdislava)

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

Dębowa Łąka: One of temporary prisons set up by the Germans in 1939, as part of «Intelligenzaktion» — extermination of Polish intelligentsia in Pomerania — in a palace owned by the Sisters Shepherdesses of Divine Providence, for catholic priests from Wąbrzeźno county. In 1954‑1957 one of the concentration and slave labour camps organised by Commie–Nazi authorities in Russian republic prl for religious sisters and nuns during Action X‑2. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31]
)

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
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)

sources

bibliographical:
Archives of Congregation of the Shepherdess' Sisters of Divine Providence CSDP”, thanks to Sr Flavia Paciorek CSDP (private correspondence, 24.03.2023)
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

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