A PRIESTLY TESTIMONY OF MARTYRDOM: POLISH CLERGY IN WORLD WAR 2 (Kaplanskie swiadectwo meczenstwa. Polscy duchowni podczas II wojny swiatowej)

• Authors: Zych Slawomir
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

1939 saw the Polish lands occupied by two totalitarian systems acting hostile to the Church - i.e. communism and National Socialism. Moreover, both the Germans and the Soviets perceived Polish clergymen as the nation's actual leadership team, a force which propagated patriotic values. Ukrainian nationalists persecuted Polish clergy on this same account. Forms of persecutions applied in German-occupied territories included killings, short-term imprisonment, deportation to extermination camps and, in general, into the General-Gouvernement area. The Soviets would use similar methods; however, the outbreak of the German-Soviet war stopped them from developing their discriminatory practices on a larger scale. W. Szoldrski's calculations have shown that during WW2, a total of thirteen bishops were affected by repressive measures (of which six got killed), 3,671 priests (2,030 killed) and 399 clerics or seminarists (173 killed). Later-date findings of W. Jacewicz have determined the total number of members of the clergy then subject to repression (including friars and nuns) at 6,367 (thereof, 1,932 of diocese clergy, including holders of lower orders, plus 580 friars and 289 nuns, killed). In spite of dozens of years having passed, the exact number of victimised clergypersons is not known; hence, further research in the area ought to be postulated.

Keywords

EN

HISTORY OF MARTYRDOM IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH; MARTYRDOM OF MISSIONARIES; REPRESSION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DURING THE COMMUNISM REGIME; TERMS AND ROOTS OR MARTYRDOM

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Faculty of Theology at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin / The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Publishing House
• Journal: Kosciol w Polsce. Dzieje i kultura (Church in Poland. Past and Culture)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 10
• Pages: 171-189
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zych Slawomir

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA105417