NOTE: Upper
case is used on these three lists of Jesuits indicates introduction
of their causes for beatification (23 March 2000) in conjunction with the
martyrs of the Diocese
of Pelplin as companions of Adam Sztark
(1907-1942).
* * Jesuits at Buchenwald: In addition to Father Louis de Jabrun
and Brother Stanislaw Komar on this list, there were other Jesuits
at Buchenwald: Father Michael Malinowski, superior at Lodz, was arrested
on March 23, 1940 and sent there before he was transferred to Dachau on
December 8, 1940. Brother Leon Wroblewski spent five years (August 16,
1940 to March 11, 1945) before he was liberated along with Father Jozef
Nowak and Brother Wladyslaw Jassiecki. there. Others who were imprisoned
there on in its subsidiary camps included: Fathers Maurice Dubois-Matra
(1908-1986), Jean-Marie Galtier (1905-1960), Henri Perrin (1941-1954),
and Jacques Sommet (b. 1912), and Brother Georg Hartmann (1901-1945).
When the Nazis discharged Jesuit seminarians as unworthy of serving in
the German Army, they contemplated sending them off to Buchenwald but,
before they could do so, Jesuit superiors assigned them to pastoral activities.
It is noteworthy that the Jesuits at Breslau were very friendly with Jews
who had spent time at Buchenwald and who told them of the horrors of that
concentration camp.
** It was known that, on Adolf Hitler's birthday (April 20th), the Nazis would kill priests in the concentration camps and send greetings to the Fuhrer that priests were killed in his honor. On this list, only Father Sejbuk, a Jesuit from Lublin, Poland, died on that day (he had been inoculated with phlegmon). For more information on priests who died in concentration camps, see "Extermination of Priests".
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