Wilhelm Gaczek

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Wilhelm Gaczek OSA Memorial of Fr. Wilhelm Gaczek. Status in 2007.

Wilhelm Gaczek (born November 23, 1881 in Sucha, died November 14, 1941 in Auschwitz) is a Provincial of the Augustinian Order, a prisoner of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, a social activist.

Honorary citizen of Prokocimia near Cracow, depositor and founder of the parish of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Cracow and its first pastor. He was a councilor of the Prokocim community, a well-known and respected organizer of social and civic life, a guardian of many Prokocim organizations.

In the days of the outbreak of World War I, he collected donations to the "Polish Treasure of War". He was a military chaplain. In 1917 he became chairman of the "Agricultural Circle" in Prokocim. From the same year he was pastor of the Prokocim parish.

In 1937, he was appointed Provincial of the Order of the Order. Augustians in Cracow. Death certificate

Arrested along with other Cracow Augustans by the Gestapo on 19 September (or 19 August) 1941 on charges of anti-German activity. This activity was supposed to consist in reading the underground press and listening to the radio in the monastery. Initially imprisoned in Cracow prison at ul. Montelupich, was brought to the German concentration camp Auschwitz on November 4, 1941, where as a Polish political prisoner number 22401 after 10 days of death was killed on 14 November. The official cause of death reported on the death certificate is stroke.

Monument to Fr. Wilhelm Gaczek in front of the Rector's Church of Sts. Nicholas of Tolentino at ul. Miners 27 in Prokocim in Cracow.



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