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6/6/2018 0 Comments June 06th, 2018  German Socialist Gestapo arrested Father Franciszek Rosłaniec, on November 12, 1939. Shipped to Dachau extermination camp, his forearm was tattooed with the number 22687.
Soon, too sick to labor, the priest was moved to Block 29, the invalid barracks, and eventually placed on a train, the Invalid Transport, to Austria, where delivery vans were waiting and loaded with the prisoners. Headed to Hartheim Euthanasia Center, the vans were, instead, converted to gas chambers when guards inserted exhaust pipes into the vans. Occupants were gassed and died within minutes, on November 20, 1942. Victims were cremated, and their ashes were sprinkled over Austrian fields. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 6/5/2018 0 Comments June 05th, 2018  "I feel that I will die. Tell my beloved believers in the parish of Christ the King that I willingly give my life for Christ and Fatherland," Father Franciszek Rogaczewski said to fellow prisoners days before his murder.
Because he was a Catholic priest, he had been arrested on September 1, 1939, the day the German Socialists invaded Poland. Tortured for months, he was being transported with others to Stutthof concentration camp, when the trucks stopped and all prisoners were ordered to march into the forest, where they were shot and killed at the edge of a pre-dug mass grave, on January 11, 1940. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 6/4/2018 0 Comments June 04th, 2018   "If I escape, Germans will decimate my parishioners," Father Jan Pyzikiewicz explained why he did not want to escape when given the opportunity.
The German Socialist Gestapo had arrested Father Pyzikiewicz, on November 14, 1942, after he refused to make a list of "suspects." Tortured in prison, he was shipped to Auschwitz, where he collapsed during roll call and was immediately taken to the ovens, where he, Number 88555, was burned to death, on February 26, 1943. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 6/3/2018 0 Comments June 03rd, 2018   "We leave, but as Poles, we offer our lives to God, the Church and the Homeland," were the last words of Father Franciszek Drzewiecki to his fellow priests in Dachau extermination camp.
Exhausted, suffering from starvation and frostbite, Father Drzewiecki, Number 22666, was no longer able to labor for the German Socialists. He was leaving on the Transport of Invalids to Hartheim Euthanasia Center, where he was gassed on November 13, 1942. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 6/2/2018 0 Comments June 02nd, 2018    The German Socialists invaded Poland on September 1, 1939.
During the Battle of Bzura, Father Franciszek Dachtera was captured, on September 17, 1939, at the battle front, where he served as military chaplain, with the rank of captain, of the 62nd Infantry Regiment of Wielkopolska. Shipped to Buchenwald then to Dachau extermination camp, where Father Dachtera received Number 31199, he was selected, in December 1942 to undergo human medical experimentation, led by Klaus Schilling. After tortured for nearly two years, Father Dachtera perished, on August 22, 1944, and his body was burned in the crematorium's oven. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 6/1/2018 0 Comments June 01st, 2018    Capuchin monk Father Józef "Florian" Stępniak was arrested on January 25, 1940, months after the German Socialists invaded Poland, on September 1, 1939.
First locked up in Lublin Castle's dungeon, the Capuchin monk was transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, then shipped to Dachau extermination camp, where he received Number 22738. Near death from starvation and exhaustion, Father Florian was ordered onto the Transport of Invalids, to Hartheim Euthanasia Center, where he was gassed to death, on August 12, 1942. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! |
AuthorTHERESA MARIE MOREAU is an award-winning reporter who covers Catholicism and Communism. Archives
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