Józef Kowalski (uhlan)
Józef Kowalski may refer to: * Józef Kowalski (priest) Józef Kowalski (13 March 1911 – 4 July 1942) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest from the Salesian Society murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. He was beatified in Warsaw on 13 June 1999. Biography Józef Kowalski ... (1911–1942), Polish Roman Catholic priest killed at Auschwitz, beatified * Józef Kowalski (supercentenarian) (1900–2013), Polish uhlan, second-to-last surviving veteran of the Polish-Soviet War {{hndis, Kowalski, Jozef ...
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Józef Kowalski (priest)
Józef Kowalski (13 March 1911 – 4 July 1942) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest from the Salesian Society murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. He was beatified in Warsaw on 13 June 1999. Biography Józef Kowalski was born in Siedliska (partitioned Poland) on 13 March 1911 to Wojciech and Zofia Borowiec, the seventh of their nine children. He was ordained a priest on 29 May 1938 in Kraków as member of the Salesian Religious Society, and took up a post of secretary to the Salesian provincial. During the German occupation of Poland the Salesians continued their educational work. The Gestapo arrested Kowalski on 23 May 1941, along with eleven other Salesians who worked in Kraków. They were taken to Montelupich Prison and tortured. Auschwitz concentration camp Kowalski was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp on 26 June 1941 (prisoner number 17,350 or 17,950). There, he ministered secretly to his fellow prisoners in Block 25, and attempted to strengt ...
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