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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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religious status

Servant of God

surname

ŁUSZCZKIEWICZ

forename(s)

Sophia Mary (pl. Zofia Maria)

religious forename(s)

Isabel (pl. Izabela)

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    Commemorative plaque, parish cemetery, Zebrzydowice
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function

nun

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]

congregation

Congregation of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul FdlCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

(i.e. Daughters of Charity)

date and place
of death

08.08.1957

Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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details of death

During Polish–Russian war of 1919‑1921 volunteer nurse in Polish Army.

After German and Russian invasion in 09.1939 and start of the World War II wanted by the Russian NKVD in Lviv.

Went into hiding.

Illegally crossed over the border set up by the two occupiers and went to German–run General Governorate, to native Kraków.

Ministered in Zebrzydowice Congregation's house.

Took care of needy.

Participated in efforts to save persecuted Jews.

Collaborated with Polish clandestine resistance Home Army AK and Peasants battalions BCh, part of Polish Clandestine State.

Run nursing courses for partisans.

Hid partisans in the Congregation's house.

In 09.1944 narrowly avoided arrest when Germans search the house and found Mr Bruno Olbrycht, nom‑de‑guerre „Olza”, head of „Śląsk Cieszyński” partisan unit.

After start of Russian occupation still supported independence clandestine „Freedom and Independence” WiN movement.

Took care of wounded soldiers, helped them to escape from Commie‑Nazi UB units, part of Russian NKVD.

In danger of imminent danger moved back on 16.08.1946 to Kraków and next on 24.05.1947 to Zebrzydowice.

Arrested by the Commie‑Nazis on 27.08.1948 in Wadowice, where was summoned under false pretenses.

Jailed in Kraków, in police jail and next in Montelupich prison.

On 23.09.1948 transported to Rakowiecka prison in Warsaw.

Tortured, beaten up senseless.

Did not reveal anything.

On 13.03.1950 sentenced by the Commie‑Nazis thrice to death.

For three months kept in death cell.

On 10.05.1950 sentence changed to life imprisonment.

Jailed in Fordon (twice: 1950‑1952, 1955‑1956) and Inowrocław prisons (1952‑1955), including 13 months in isolation in the latter one (she described this prison later as „Polish KL Auschwitz”).

Conditionally released on 05.05.1956.

Terminally ill — leg tuberculosis contracted in prison, cancer of jaws at places where had teeth punched out by Commie‑Nazis during interrogations — perished soon without recovering.

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians / Poles

date and place
of birth

23.04.1898

Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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religious vows

08.09.1928 (last)

positions held

1947 – 1948

nun — Zebrzydowicetoday: Kalwaria Zebrzydowska gm., Wadowice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Congregation's house, Daughters of Charity FdlC — head of an orphanage

1946 – 1947

nun — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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⋄ provincial house, Daughters of Charity FdlC

1944 – 1946

nun — Rzeszówtoday: Rzeszów city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
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⋄ Congregation's house, Daughters of Charity FdlC — nurse at Public Hospital at 2 Szopen Str.

1940 – 1944

nun — Zebrzydowicetoday: Kalwaria Zebrzydowska gm., Wadowice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ Congregation's house, Daughters of Charity FdlC

1926 – 1939

nun — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ Congregation's house (at the former Reformed Franciscans' monastery by St Casimir church), Daughters of Charity FdlC — director of the Nursing School by the General State Hospital

1925 – 1926

nun — Paristoday: Paris dep., Île–de–France reg., France
more on
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[access: 2020.11.13]
⋄ Motherhouse, Daughters of Charity FdlC — student of the College of Nursing

1924 – 1925

nun — Bordeauxtoday: Bordeaux arr., Gironde dep., Nouvelle–Aquitaine reg., France
more on
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[access: 2022.09.17]
⋄ Congregation's house, Daughters of Charity FdlC — nursing practice

1923 – 1924

novitiate — Paristoday: Paris dep., Île–de–France reg., France
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[access: 2020.11.13]
⋄ Motherhouse, Daughters of Charity FdlC

1923

postulate — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ Congregation's house (at the former Reformed Franciscans' monastery by St Casimir church), Daughters of Charity FdlC

from 20.01.1923

nun — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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⋄ Congregation's house, Daughters of Charity FdlC

1917 – 1922

student — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.06.07]
⋄ Department of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University UJ

murder sites
camp 
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Inowrocław: German prison and detention center. In 1939, the Germans held there hundreds of Poles from Inowrocław and the surrounding area, arrested as part of the «Intelligenzaktion» program — the physical extermination of the Polish intelligentsia and leadership classes. By 11.1939, 546 of them were murdered in the prison and the surrounding area, including 56 people on the night of 22‑23.10.1939. Later, it was also a place of execution for many Poles. After the Russian occupation began in 1945, the communist prison, also for women. (more on: www.inowroclawfakty.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]
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Fordon (prison): German prison for women. Upon completion of the sentence, in a very harsh conditions, women were transported to KL Auschwitz and KL Ravensbrück concentration camps. In total c. 6,300 inmates — Poles and Jews — were incarcerated in Fordon, including dozens of Polish clandestine resistance activists. After commencement of Russian occupation in 1945 harsh Commi‑Nazi prison for women where many Polish independence fighters were held captive. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31]
)

Warsaw (Mokotów): Prison and detention centre in Warsaw on Rakowiecka Str. Used by Germans during German occupation 1939‑1945 to held thousands of Poles. In 1945‑1956 thousands of Polish independence activists were held there by the Polish Commie‑Nazi branch of Russian NKVD/KGB police. Hundreds of Poles were executed. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
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Cracow (Montelupich): Cracow penal prison, during occupation run by the Germans — from 28.02.1941 by Germ. Geheime Staatspolizei (Eng. Secret State Police, known as Gestapo. In 1940‑1944 Germans jailed there approx. 50,000 prisoners, mainly Poles and Jews. Some of them were transported to KL Auschwitz concentration camp, some were executed. After cease in war effort the prison was used by UB — a Polish unit of Russian NKVD — as a prison for Polish independence resistance fighters, some of which were subsequently sent to prisons and slave labour camps in Russia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31]
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Help to the Jews: During World War II on the Polish occupied territories Germans forbid to give any support to the Jews under penalty of death. Hundreds of Polish priests and religious helped the Jews despite this official sanction. Many of them were caught and murdered.

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 Ribbentrop‑Molotov 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 Germ. 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]
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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 Stanislav 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]
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Polish‑Russian war of 1919‑1921: War for independence of Poland and its borders. Poland regained independence in 1918 but had to fight for its borders with former imperial powers, in particular Russia. Russia planned to incite Bolshevik‑like revolutions in the Western Europe and thus invaded Poland. Russian invaders were defeated in 08.1920 in a battle called Warsaw battle („Vistula river miracle”, one of the 10 most important battles in history, according to some historians). Thanks to this victory Poland recaptured part of the lands lost during partitions of Poland in XVIII century, and Europe was saved from the genocidal Communism. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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