Over 50 CM's martyred in Dachau and other camps
April 29, 2009 
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More than 50 Polish CM’s were martyred during the Holocaust. According to the newly inaugurated website of the Polish Vincentians “They were among the 2,794 clergy members including 1,773 Polish priests and religious brothers were held in KL They are all celebrated in Martyrdom of Polish Clergy Memorial Day.
Today many of them have been proclaimed “Venerable”.
“In our century martyrs came back. And often, they are unknown martyrs, as if they were “unknown soldiers†of God’s great cause… Their testimonies should not be forgotten in the Church†(John Paul II, Tertio Millenio Adveniente, 37)
The Province website has more information and includes the following list.
Here is the list of Polish Vincentian priests and brothers killed and executed and died of various circumstances between 1939 and 1945: In Nazi concentration camps martyred were:
Venerable Fr. Józef FLORKO (1945 Bergen-Belsen),  Venerable Fr. MichaÅ‚ JACHIMCZAK (1941 Dachau), Venerable Fr. Jan JĘDRYCHOWSKI (1942 Dachau), Venerable Fr. Norbert KOMPALLA (1942 Dachau), Venerable Fr. Adam MAÅUSZYŃSKI (1945 Mittelbau), Venerable Fr. Józef SÅUPINA (1940 Auschwitz), Venerable Fr. Leon WIĘCKIEWICZ (1944 Gross-Rosen), Fr. Karol BRODA (1944 Mauthausen), Fr. StanisÅ‚aw SZADKO (1943 Dachau), bro. Franciszek DRYGAS (1944 Gross-Rosen), bro. Jan DRYGAS (1944 Gross-Rosen), deacon Antoni Å»UREK (1945 Bergen-Belsen), Fr. Kazimierz CAÅKA (1942 Dachau), Fr. Józef KRAUZE (1940 Auschwitz), Fr. Józef LEŃKO (1944 Gross-Rosen), bro. Wojciech BOGACZ (1944 Gross-Rosen), bro. Ludwik MUZALEWSKI (1944 Gross-Rosen), bro. Aleksander CAP (1944 Gross-Rosen), bro. Józef STOPIŃSKI (1944 Gross-Rosen)
At the beginning of the war these priests were massacred and shot dead in the forests outside Bydgoszcz:
Venerable Fr.  Hieronim GINTROWSKI , Venerable Fr.  Piotr SZAREK , Venerable Fr.  Jan WAGNER ,Venerable Fr. Stanisława WIOREK
Number of others died after repressions, persecutions and arrests, due to malnutrition and illnesses:
Bro. Józef Olszak (1943 Tarnów), Fr.. Jan Cepurski (1941 Milatyn), Fr.. Sylwester Graczyk (1940 Warszawa),Fr. Jan Weissmann (1942 Kraków), Fr. Cezary Kamiński (944 Wilno), Fr. Franciszek Śmidoda (1944 Kraków), Fr. Jan Kominek (1943 Lwów), Fr. Jan Kisiel (1940 Lwów), Fr. Edmund Krauze (1943 Warszawa), Fr. Franciszek Ździebło (1945 Koronowo), Fr. Stanisław Kalla (1943 Warszawa), Fr. Kazimierz Musiał (1940 Kraków), bro. Józef Fedzin (1943 Kraków), bro. Józef Sasak (1942 Lwow), bro. Jan Kwiatkowski (1941 Wilno), Fr. Antoni Weiss (1944 Kraków), seminarian Emanuel Kabiesz (1943 Kraków), Fr. Józef Rzychoń (1944 Warszawa), bro. Władysław Uruski (1944 Warszawa), Fr. Stanislaw Ciszowski (1943 WIlno), bro. Michał Węgrzyn (1943 Kraków), Fr. Wawrzyniec Strzelczyk (1942 Kraków), Fr. Jan Gancarz (1940 Kraków), Fr. Wilhelm Michalski (1943 Warszwa), bro. Franciszek Grześko (1943 Warszawa), Fr. Franciszek Komander (1939 Pabianice),  seminarian Wiktor Andrusiewicz (1939 Wilno), bro. Kazmierz Zniszczyński (1940 Lwów), bro. Michał Wolak (1944 Sandomierz), seminarian Włodzimierz Tymec (1941 Kraków), bro. Marcin Kudlek (1942 Kraków).
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