108 Martyrs of World War Two

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death_date=1939 – 1945
martyred_by=Nazi Party
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feast_day=12 June
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church


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birth_place=Poland
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beatified_date=13 June 1999
beatified_place=Warsaw, Poland
beatified_by=Pope John Paul II
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notable_members=Antoni Julian Nowowiejski
Jan Franciszek Czartoryski
Hilary Paweł Januszewski

The 108 Martyrs of World War Two known also as 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs ( _pl. 108 błogosławionych męczenników) were Roman Catholics from Poland killed during World War Two by the Nazis. Their liturgical memorial day is June 12. The 108 were beatified 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II at Warsaw, Poland. There are 3 bishops, 52 priests, 26 monks, 3 seminarians, 8 nuns and 9 lay people among them. There is a 108 Martyrs of World War Two- Parish in Powiercie in Koło County, Poland.

List of names

Bishops

*Antoni Julian Nowowiejski, (1858-1941 KL Działdowo), bishop
*Leon Wetmański, (1886-1941 KL Działdowo), bishop
*Władysław Goral, (1898-1945 KL Sachsenhausen), bishop

Priests

*Adam Bargielski, priest from Myszyniec (1903-1942 KL Dachau)
*Aleksy Sobaszek, priest (1895-1942 KL Dachau)
*Alfons Maria Mazurek, Carmelite prior, priest (1891-1944, shot by SS)
*Alojzy Liguda, Verbist friar, priest (1898-1942 KL Dachau)
*Anastazy Jakub Pankiewicz, Franciscan friar, priest (1882-1942 KL Dachau)
*Anicet Kopliński, Capuchin friar of German descent, priest in Warsaw (1875-1941)
*Antoni Beszta-Borowski, priest, dean of Bielsk Podlaski (1880-1943, shot near Bielsk Podlaski)
*Antoni Leszczewicz, Marian friar, priest (1890-1943, burnt to death in Rosica, Belarus)
*Antoni Rewera, priest, dean of the Cathedral Chapter in Sandomierz (1869-1942 KL Dachau)
*Antoni Świadek, priest from Bydgoszcz (1909-1945 KL Dachau)
*Antoni Zawistowski, priest (1882-1942 KL Dachau)
*Bolesław Strzelecki, priest (1896-1941 KL Auschwitz)
*Bronisław Komorowski, priest (1889-22 III 1940 KL Stutthof)
*Dominik Jędrzejewski, priest (1886-1942 KL Dachau)
*Edward Detkens, priest (1885-1942 KL Dachau)
*Edward Grzymała, priest (1906-1942 KL Dachau)
*Emil Szramek, priest (1887-1942 KL Dachau)
* Fidelis Chojnacki, Capuchin friar, priest (1906-1942, KL Dachau)
*Florian Stępniak, Capuchin friar, priest (1912-1942 KL Dachau)
*Franciszek Dachtera, priest (1910-23 VIII 1942 KL Dachau)
*Franciszek Drzewiecki, Orionist friar, priest (1908-1942 KL Dachau); from Zduny, he was condemned to heavy work in the plantation of Dachau. While he was bending over tilling the soil, he adored the consecrated hosts kept in a small box in front of him. While he was going to the gas-chamber, he encourage his companions, saying "We offer our life for God, for the Church and for our Country".
*Franciszek Rogaczewski, priest from Gdańsk (1892-1940, shot in Stutthof or in Piaśnica, Pomerania)
*Franciszek Rosłaniec, priest (1889-1942 KL Dachau)
*Henryk Hlebowicz, priest (1904-1941, shot at Borisov in Belarus)
*Henryk Kaczorowski, priest from Włocławek (1888-1942)
*Henryk Krzysztofik, friar, priest (1908-1942 KL Dachau)
*Hilary Paweł Januszewski, friar, priest (1907-1945 KL Dachau)
*Jan Antonin Bajewski, Franciscan friar, priest (1915-1941 KL Auschwitz); of Niepokalanow. These were the closest collaborators of St Maximilian Kolbe in the fight for God’s cause and together suffered and helped each other spiritually in their offering their lives at Auschwitz
*Jan Franciszek Czartoryski, Dominican friar, priest (1897-1944)
*Jan Nepomucen Chrzan, priest (1885-1942 KL Dachau)
*Jerzy Kaszyra, Marian friar,priest (1910-1943, burnt to death in Rosica, Belarus)
*Józef Achilles Puchała, Franciscan friar, priest (1911-1943, killed near Iwieniec, Belarus)
*Józef Cebula, Missionary Oblate friar, priest (1902-1941 KL Mauthausen)
*Józef Czempiel, priest (1883-1942 KL Mauthausen)
*Józef Innocenty Guz, Franciscan friar, priest (1890-1940 KL Sachsenhausen)
*Józef Jankowski, Pallottine friar, priest, (1910 born in Czyczkowy near Brusy-16 X 1941, died in KL Auschwitz beaten by kapo)
*Józef Kowalski, Salesian friar, priest (1911-2942)
*Józef Kurzawa, priest (1910-1940)
*Józef Kut, priest (1905-1942 KL Dachau)
*Józef Pawłowski, priest (1890-9 I 1942 KL Dachau)
*Józef Stanek, Pallottine friar, priest (1916-23 IX 1944, murdered in Warsaw)
*Józef Straszewski, priest (1885-1942 KL Dachau)
*Karol Herman Stępień, Franciscan friar, priest (1910-1943, killed near Iwieniec, Belarus)
*Kazimierz Gostyński, priest (1884-1942 KL Dachau)
*Kazimierz Grelewski, priest (1907-1942 KL Dachau)
*Kazimierz Sykulski, priest (1882-1942 KL Auschwitz)
*Krystyn Gondek, Franciscan friar, priest (1909-1942 KL Dachau)
*Leon Nowakowski, priest (1913-1939)
*Ludwik Mzyk, Verbist friar, priest (1905-1940)
*Ludwik Pius Bartosik, Franciscan friar, priest (1909-1941 KL Auschwitz); of Niepokalanow. These were the closest collaborators of St Maximilian Kolbe in the fight for God’s cause and together suffered and helped each other spiritually in their offering their lives at Auschwitz
*Ludwik Roch Gietyngier, priest from Częstochowa (1904-1941 KL Dachau)
*Maksymilian Binkiewicz, priest (1913-24 VII 1942, beaten, died in KL Dachau)
*Marian Gorecki, priest (1903-22 III 1940 KL Stutthof)
*Marian Konopiński, Capuchin friar, priest (1907-1 I 1943 KL Dachau)
*Marian Skrzypczak, priest (1909-1939 shot in Plonkowo)
*Michał Oziębłowski, priest (1900-1942 KL Dachau)
*Michał Piaszczyński, priest (1885-1940 KL Sachsenhausen)
*Michał Woźniak, priest (1875-1942 KL Dachau)
*Mieczysław Bohatkiewicz, priest (1904-4 III 1942, shot in Berezwecz)
*Narcyz Putz, priest (1877-1942 KL Dachau)
*Narcyz Turchan, friar, priest (1879-1942 KL Dachau)
*Piotr Edward Dankowski, priest (1908-3 IV 1942 KL Auschwitz)
*Roman Archutowski, priest (1882-1943 KL Majdanek)
*Roman Sitko, priest (1880-1942 KL Auschwitz)
*Stanisław Kubista, Verbist friar, priest (1898-1940 KL Sachsenhausen)
*Stanisław Kubski, priest (1876-1942, prisoner in KL Dachau, killed in Hartheim near Linz)
*Stanisław Mysakowski, priest (1896-1942 KL Dachau)
*Stanisław Pyrtek, priest (1913-4 III 1942, shot in Berezwecz)
*Stefan Grelewski, priest (1899-1941 KL Dachau)
*Wincenty Matuszewski, priest (1869-1940)
*Władysław Błądziński, Michaelite friar, priest (1908-1944, KL Gross-Rosen)
*Władysław Demski, priest (1884-28 V 1940, KL Sachsenhausen)
*Władysław Maćkowiak, priest (1910-4 III 1942 shot in Berezwecz)
*Władysław Mączkowski, priest (1911-20 VIII 1942 KL Dachau)
*Władysław Miegoń, priest, commandor leutnant (1892-1942 KL Dachau)
*Włodzimierz Laskowski, priest (1886-1940 KL Gusen)
*Wojciech Nierychlewski, friar, priest (1903-1942, KL Auschwitz)
*Zygmunt Pisarski, priest (1902-1943)
*Zygmunt Sajna, priest (1897-1940, shot at Palmiry, near Warsaw)

Friars

"Note: If a person was a priest and a friar, they have been listed under 'priests'."
*Brunon Zembol, friar (1905-1942 KL Dachau)
*Grzegorz Bolesław Frąckowiak, friar (1911-1943, guillotined in Dresden)
*Józef Zapłata, friar (1904-1945 KL Dachau)
*Marcin Oprządek, friar (1884-1942 KL Dachau)
*Piotr Bonifacy Żukowski, friar (1913-1942 KL Auschwitz)
*Stanisław Tymoteusz Trojanowski, friar (1908-1942 KL Auschwitz)
*Symforian Ducki, friar (1888-1942 KL Auschwiitz)

Nuns

*Alicja Maria Jadwiga Kotowska, sister (1899-1939, executed at Piaśnica, Pomerania)
*Ewa Noiszewska, sister (1885-1942, executed at Góra Pietrelewicka near Slonim, Belarus)
*Julia Rodzińska, Dominican sister (1899-20 II 1945 KL Stutthof); she died having contract typhoid serving the Jewish women prisoners in a hut for which she had volunteered.
*Katarzyna Celestyna Faron, sister (1913-1944 KL Auschwitz); (1913-1944), had offered her life for the conversion of an Old Catholic bishop Władysław Faron (no relation). She was arrested by the Gestapo and condemned in Auschwitz camp. She put heroically with all the abuses of the camp and died on Easter Sunday 1944. The bishop has later returned to the Catholic church).
*Maria Antonina Kratochwil, sister (1881-1942)
*Maria Klemensa Staszewska, sister (1890-1943 KL Auschwitz)
*Marta Wołowska, sister (1879-1942, executed at Góra Pietrelewicka near Slonim, Belarus)
*Mieczysława Kowalska, sister (1902-1941 KL Dzialdowo)

Lay people

*Bronisław Kostkowski, alumnus (1915-1942 KL Dachau)
*Czesław Jóźwiak (1919-1942, guillotined in a prison in Dresden)
*Edward Kaźmierski (1919-1942, guillotined in a prison in Dresden)
*Edward Klinik (1919-1942, guillotined in a prison in Dresden)
* Franciszek Kęsy (1920-1942, guillotined in a prison in Dresden)
*Franciszek Stryjas, father of a family, (1882-31 VII 1944 prison in Kalisz)
*Jarogniew Wojciechowski (1922-1942, guillotined in a prison in Dresden)
*Marianna Biernacka (1888-13 VII 1943), offered her life for her unborn grandchild and was executed instead of her pregnant daughter-in-law
*Natalia Tułasiewicz (1906-31 III 1945, died in KL Ravensbrück, in a gas chamber), a teacher; a teacher from Poznan, (1906-1945), a leader in the apostolate of lay people. During the occupation, she volunteered to leave for the Third Reich together with other women condemned to do heavy work in order to give them spiritual comfort. When the Gestapo found out, she was arrested, tortured, publicly humiliated and condemned to death in the Ravensbruck camp. On Good Friday, she climbed a stool in the hut and spoke to the prisoners on the passion and resurrection of Jesus. Two days later, she died in a gas-chamber.
*Stanisław Starowieyski, father of a family (1895-13 IV 1941 KL Dachau)
*Tadeusz Dulny, alumnus (1914-1942 KL Dachau)

See also

*Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek
*List of the 108 Martyrs of World War Two

References

* [http://www.catholicforum.com/saints/martyr08.htm www.catholicforum.com] – website listing the names of all 108 martyrs