Jerzy Majewski

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Jerzy Majewski , also Georg Majewski (born August 27, 1904 , † August 22, 1942 in the Dachau concentration camp ) was a Polish clergyman and martyr of the Catholic Church .

Life

Majewski was one of the first to graduate from the Polish school in Gdansk . He was ordained a priest on December 19, 1931 and came as a chaplain to the Maria Meeresstern Church in Sopot . In 1937 he was vicar at the Sacred Heart Church in Langfuhr (today: Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz ). He was a member of various Polish organizations.

At the beginning of the Second World War , the vicar was arrested. Presumably shortly afterwards, like Marian Górecki , he was transferred to the Stutthof concentration camp , where they worked in a group of 40 priests and teachers to set up the camp. Majewski continued his ordeal through the Sachsenhausen concentration camp to the Dachau concentration camp , where he perished on August 22, 1942, a few days before his 38th birthday.

Commemoration

In Sopot since 1985 a memorial to him, four Catholic chaplains who died in a similar way and 69 other citizens. A plaque on the Marienkapelle in Söder near Hildesheim also mentions Georg Majewski . Nothing is known about a process of beatification as a martyr.

The Catholic Church accepted Georg Majewski as a witness of faith in the German martyrology of the 20th century .

See also

literature

  • Helmut Moll (publisher on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference), witnesses for Christ. The German Martyrology of the 20th Century , 6th, expanded and restructured edition Paderborn u. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-78080-5 , Volume I, pp. 767-768.
  • NN: Victoriaschule - Gdańsk - 1 wrzesnia 1939. (Polish) 2008 [2]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kafemann (Ed.): Danzig residents' book 1937/38 . Danzig 1937. Part III, p. 25
  2. ↑ Sopot was memorial. (Eng.) [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / old.sopot.net  
personal data
SURNAME Majewski, Jerzy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Majewski, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish clergyman and martyr of the Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1904
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1942
Place of death Dachau Concentration Camp , German Empire