Zdzisław Peszkowski

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Zdzisław Peszkowski
Priest
Known forKatyń Massacre Survivor
Chaplain to Pope John Paul II
TitleMonsignor

Zdzisław Peszkowski (Polish pronunciation:

Polish army officers who managed to survive the 1940 mass execution of 22,000 Polish citizens by NKVD, the Katyn massacre. Peszkowski was a leading advocate and chaplain for the Federation of Katyn Families, which works with survivors of the Katyn massacre and their families.[2]

Early life

Zdzisław Peszkowski was born in 1918 in

Polish Cavalry
.

Military

Peszkowski was a Sergeant, leading a platoon of the 20th Uhlan Regiment of King Jan III Sobieski (Polish: 20 Pułk Ułanów), during the Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany.

After the

POW camp, established in the Optina Monastery in Kozelsk (Russian: Козе́льск) for Polish prisoners taken captive by the Red Army. In May 1940, he was transported from Kozelsk to a camp called Pavlishchev Bor, and then to Gryazovets (Russian: Гря́зовец; Polish
: Griazowca).

In 1941, following

Rotmistrz and lead a company in the 1st Krechowce Uhlan Regiment (Polish: 1 Pułk Ułanów Krechowieckich). In the spring of 1942 the organizing formation was moved to the area of Tashkent (Uzbek: Toshkent, Тошкент), Uzbekistan. In the second part of 1942, the formation was transferred through the Persian Corridor to the British Middle East Command as a military occupation force after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
.

Priesthood

Peszkowski left the army following

Warsaw's Unknown Soldiers' Grave in 1995.[2]

June 4, 2007 was the last Katyn remembrance ceremony where Peszkowski took part.

the tragedies that happened to Poland during World War II would serve as a warning against hatred to the rest of the world.[2]

Zdzisław Peszkowski died in

Warsaw, Poland, at the age of 89.[2] He remained a chaplain for the Katyn families until his death.[2]

Citations

  1. Some of the content of this article comes from the equivalent Polish-language Wikipedia article (retrieved April 12, 2010).

External links

Media related to Zdzisław Peszkowski at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. ^ "Fr. Monsignor Zdzisław Peszkowski Honorary Citizen of Warsaw". www.radawarszawy.um.warszawa.pl. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Katyn Families' chaplain dies in Poland". Thenews.pl. 2007-10-08. Archived from the original on 2007-10-13. Retrieved 2007-10-09.
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