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
AMBROZIAK
forename(s)
Josephine (pl. Józefa)
function
nun
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
congregation
Congregation of the Sisters of Common Effort of Immaculate Mary (Sisters of Common Effort - ZSNM)more on
siostrywspolnejpracy.pl
[access: 2013.10.05]
date and place
of death
11.04.1954
Michelintoday: district of Włocławek, Włocławek city pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02]
details of death
Arrested on 29.01.1939 by the Commie–Nazi UB, the Polish unit of the Russian genocidal KGB, together with two sisters.
Inmate in the prison at Rakowiecka Str. in Mokotów in Warsaw.
Interrogated many times —„there were frequent and cruel interrogations during the day and at night in prison” among others as a witness in the case of Fr John Paul Grajnert, accused of „cooperation with the Vatican” and espionage.
Formally prob. accused of „currency crimes” — prob. „for receiving receive dollars for safekeeping from Fr Grajnert”.
After 9 months — prob. at the end of 10.1953 — released.
She returned to a religious house in Michelin, where falling ill — in prison, „the water allowance [was] very modest, probably one liter per person per day; they slept on a pallet, [with only] a thin blanket for cover, often wrenched from sleep for night interrogations”— did not regain health and died.
cause of death
extermination
perpetrators
Russians / Poles
date and place
of birth
15.01.1898
Marianówtoday: Koźminek gm., Kalisz pow., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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religious vows
25.03.1941 (temporary)
02.02.1934 (permanent)
positions held
till 1953
superior {Michelintoday: district of Włocławek, Włocławek city pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02], Congregation's House, Congregation of Common Effort Sisters ZSNM}
nun {Łowicztoday: Łowicz urban gm., Łowicz pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Congregation's House, Congregation of Common Effort Sisters ZSNM}
from 1946
nun {Gdańsktoday: Gdańsk city pow., Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.07.04], Congregation's House, Congregation of Common Effort Sisters ZSNM}
1939 – 1946
nun {Włocławektoday: Włocławek city pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Congregation's House, Congregation of Common Effort Sisters ZSNM}, incl. employee of a hotel for Germans at 5 Królewiecka Str.
till 1939
nun {Włocławektoday: Włocławek city pow., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Congregation's House, Congregation of Common Effort Sisters ZSNM}, help and cook in the shops run by the Congregation at Orla Str. and 20 3rd of May Str.
from 1934
nun {Kalisztoday: Kalisz city pow., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2020.12.16], Congregation's House, Congregation of Common Effort Sisters ZSNM}, employee of a shop run by the Congregation
till 1934
nun {Łowicztoday: Łowicz urban gm., Łowicz pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18], Congregation's House, Congregation of Common Effort Sisters ZSNM}, employee of a shop run by the Congregation
from 25.03.1930
novitiate {Congregation of Common Effort Sisters ZSNM}
14.09.1929
accession {Congregation of Common Effort Sisters ZSNM}
murder sites
camp
(+ prisoner no)
Warsaw (Mokotów): Prison and detention centre in Warsaw on Rakowiecka str. Used by Germans during German occupation 1939‑45 to held thousands of Poles. In 1945‑56 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])
sources
personal:
www.radiomaryja.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.04.12], www.ordynariat.wp.mil.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], www.ordynariat.wp.mil.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], m.niedziela.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.04.12]
bibliograhical:, „Lexicon of the clergy vicimised in prl in 1945‑1989”, collective work edited by Jerzy Myszor, Warsaw, 2002
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