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

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surname

ZWOLSKI

forename(s)

Steven (pl. Stefan)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Gniezno and Poznań archdiocese (aeque principaliter)more on
www.archpoznan.pl
[access: 2012.11.23]

academic distinctions

Doctor of Sacred Theology

honorary titles

Minor Canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
(Poznań collegiate)

date and place
of death

11.01.1945

Świdertoday: part of Otwock, Otwock gm., Otwock pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.28]

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 in 1941 by the Germans.

Jailed in KL Posen (Fort VII) concentration camp.

Released after some time but deported to German‑run General Governorate.

There managed to survive till Russians arrival and start of Russian occupation — Świder village Russians took over on 30.07.1944 but then the German–Russian front stopped moving for on 01.08.1944 Warsaw Uprising started and Russian genocidal leader, Joseph Stalin, prob. issued an order to his armies to slow down the offensive.

The front ceased on Vistula river line.

Did not manage to return to his diocese — perished few days before Russian final winter offensive of 1945 that ended up with German defeat.

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Germans / Russians

date and place
of birth

1879

Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

15.12.1901 (Gnieznotoday: Gniezno urban gm., Gniezno pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
)

positions held

1916 – 1941

canon of the chapter — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ Collegiate Chapter ⋄ St Mary Magdalene RC collegiate church — i.a. (in various times): Penitentiary (Major), Notary, Archivist and Master of Ceremonies

c. 1911 – 1939

pro–synodal examiner — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ Metropolitan Curia — also: priests teaching religion in secondary schools

c. 1911 – 1939

censor of religious books (Lat. censores librorum) — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ Metropolitan Curia

1935 – 1936

administrator — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ St Mary Magdalene RC collegiate parish ⋄ Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.18]
RC deanery

1927 – 1932

vice–official (i.e. judicial deputy vicar) — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ Archbishop's Metropolitan Court

c. 1924

administrator — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ St Mary Magdalene RC collegiate parish ⋄ Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.18]
RC deanery

c. 1922 – 1927

pro–synodal judge — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ Archbishop's Metropolitan Court

1909 – 1919

professor — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ Archbishop's Theological Seminary (Collegium Leoninum) — i.a. lecturer in dogmatic and fundamental theology

1904 – 1909

vicar — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ St Mary Magdalene RC collegiate parish ⋄ Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.07.18]
RC deanery — mansionaire

till c. 1903

PhD student — Münstertoday: Münster urban dist., Münster reg., North Rhine–Westphalia state, Germany
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⋄ theology, [Wilhelm University of Westphalia (from 1907) / Royal University of Theology and Philosophy (1902–1907) / Royal Theological and Philosophical Academy] (1843–1902) — PhD thesis (prob.) Lat. „De bibliis polonicis, quae usque ad initium saeculi XVII in lucem edita sunt : commentatio biblica critica” (Eng. „On the Polish Bibles published until the beginning of the 17th century: a critical biblical commentary”), public defense in c. 1903, ed. Poznań 1904

till 1901

student — Gnieznotoday: Gniezno urban gm., Gniezno pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Archbishop's Practical Theological Seminary (Lat. Seminarium Clericorum Practicum)

from 1898

student — Poznańtoday: Poznań city pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Archbishop's Theological Seminary (Collegium Leoninum)

author of books about Poznań, e.g. „Guide to Poznań Fara Church”, Poznań 1936

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ADAMSKIClick to display biography Ignatius, BINEKClick to display biography Silvester, DĄBROWSKIClick to display biography Steven, DUDZIŃSKIClick to display biography Stanislav, GIEBUROWSKIClick to display biography Vaclav Casimir, GRASZYŃSKIClick to display biography Alphonse, HAŁASClick to display biography Anthony, HEYDUCKIClick to display biography Ceslav, KAŹMIERSKIClick to display biography Boleslav, KRUSZKAClick to display biography Steven, MICHALSKIClick to display biography Stanislav, PANEWICZClick to display biography Roman, PANKOWSKIClick to display biography Peter Romualdo Casimir, ROSENBERGClick to display biography Louis, SOŁTYSIŃSKIClick to display biography Romualdo, ŚPIKOWSKIClick to display biography Marian, TACZAKClick to display biography Theodore, THEINERTClick to display biography Roman Sigismund, WIERZCHACZEWSKIClick to display biography Maximilian, WOLSKIClick to display biography Francis, BAJEROWICZClick to display biography Adalbert Stanislav, KANIEWSKIClick to display biography Zbigniew, NIKLEWICZClick to display biography Ceslav Stanislav, PACEWICZClick to display biography Vaclav, STEINMETZClick to display biography Paul, ZALEWSKIClick to display biography Edward

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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]
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Deportations from niem. Reichsgau Wartheland: After defeating Poland in 1939 a new province was created in Germany, Germ. Reichsgau Wartheland (Eng. Warta German Region) and defined as „indigenous German”, although in 1939 Germans constituted less than 10% of the total population there. In the same 1939, the national–socialist leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler, announced the need to move Germans from the East to the Reich, mainly to the Germ. Reichsgau Wartheland. Another German leader, Robert Ley, stated, „In 50 years there will be a thriving German country where there will be neither a Pole nor a Jew! If someone asks me where they will be, I will answer: I don't know. In Palestine or in the Sahara desert, I don't care. But German people will live here!” Deportations began. By the end of 1939, c. 80 railway transports were sent to the General Governorate — a total of 87,883 people, mainly Poles and Jews. By 03.1941, over 280,000 people had been displaced. The deported had the right to take with them 12‑30 kg per person. They were given half an hour to pack. Over 60,000 Germans from Estonia, Latvia, Finland, later from other regions, were brought in to replace them. In 1941, c. 70,000 remaining Jewsa were displaced. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.11.20]
)

KL Posen: German Posen — Fort VII — camp founded in c. 10.10.1939 in Poznań till mid of 11.1939 operated formally as KL Posen concentration camp (Germ. Konzentrationslager), and this term is used throughout the White Book, also later periods. It was first such a concentration camp set up by the Germans on Polish territory — in case of Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) directly incorporated into German Reich. In 10.1939 in KL Posen for the first time Germans used gas to murder civilian population, in particular patients of local psychiatric hospitals. From 11.1939 the camp operated as German political police Gestapo prison and transit camp (Germ. Übergangslager), prior to sending off to concentration camps, such as KL Dachau or KL Auschwitz. In 28.05.1941 the camp was rebranded as police jail and slave labour corrective camp (Germ. Arbeitserziehungslager). At its peak up to 7‑9 executions were carried in the camp per day, there were mass hangings of the prisoners and some of them were led out to be murdered elsewhere, outside of the camp. Altogether in KL Posen Germans exterminated approx. 20,000 inhabitants of Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) region, including many representatives of Polish intelligentsia, patients and staff of psychiatric hospitals and dozen or so Polish priests. Hundreds of priests were held there temporarily prior to transport to other concentration camps, mainly KL Dachau. From 03.1943 the camp had been transformed into an industrial complex (from 25.04.1944 — Telefunken factory manufacturing radios for submarines and aircrafts). (more on: www.wmn.poznan.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02]
, en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.27]
)

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
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[access: 2023.05.28]
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, www.straty.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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bibliographical:
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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