POLAND SOLIDARNOSC SOLIDARITY FAITHFUL TO GOD & COUNTRY BLESSED KOZAL DACHAU NAZI GERMANY WW2 DEATH CAMP PRIEST MARTYR

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Start of the sale:
Wednesday, 15 May 2024 at 09:59
Item n°2029521119
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IF YOU NEED INDIVIDUAL STAMPS RATHER THAN THE WHOLE SET PLEASE WRITE TO ME AND I WILL LIST THEM SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY.
SOLIDARITY STAMPS WERE PRINTED ON WHATEVER PAPER WAS AVAILABLE AS BETWEEN 1982 AND 1990 EVERYTHING WAS SCARCE IN POLAND. THIS GIVES RISE TO VARIETIES WHICH ARE DISTINGUISHED BETWEEN BY THE DISCERNING SPECIALIST.
AS FAR AS I AM AWARE, BASED ON THE MATERIAL I HAVE PERSONALLY SEEN, THIS ISSUE EXISTS ONLY ON ONE KIND OF PAPER
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SCAN IS A STOCK SCAN. YOU WILL RECEIVE STAMPS OF A SIMILAR QUALITY

THIS PROPAGANDA STAMP SET WAS ISSUED BY THE POLISH UNDERGROUND SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT AS A DIVERSIFICATION STATEMENT AGAINST MARTIAL LAW WHICH HAD BEEN DECLARED BY THE COMMUNIST AUTHORITIES IN POLAND. IT IS A VERY RARE AND COLLECTABLE ITEM . THE UNDERGROUND MEMBERS WHO ISSUED THIS STAMP RISKED A LOT, BECAUSE IF CAUGHT THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPRISONED WITHOUT TRIAL.

THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO OWN A UNIQUE PIECE OF HISTORY. IT IS A MUST FOR EVERY SERIOUS HISTORIAN AND COLLECTOR OF THIS PERIOD AND WILL MAKE AN INTERESTING ADDITION TO YOUR COLLECTION.

General Wojciech Jaruzelski announced the introduction of martial law in a speech first broadcast on radio and television at 6:00 am on December 13, 1981. In order to isolate members of the opposition (from the Solidarity movement), 52 internment centers were created. A total of 10,132 internment orders were issued against 9,736 people during the period of martial law.
Michael Kozal was born in Ligota (Nowy Folwark) in Poland in September 1893. His parents were John Kozal and Marianna Placzek. Young Michael grew up with a love for the church and was a good student. On the advice of a teacher in 1905 he began attending the gymnasium Krotoszyn which was better suited for his talents. Upon graduating from there in 1914, Michael enrolled in the Leonium Poznan seminary. His studies were delayed with the outbreak of World War I. He was finally ordained as a priest in February 1918. Michael worked in various jobs for the church over the next two decades and was held in high regard. In June of 1939 Pope Pius XII appointed him auxiliary bishop of Wloclawek with the title of bishop holds Lappa. His consececration came on 13 August 1939, once again followed by the outbreak of a world war when Hitler’s forces invaded Poland on 1 September 1939. Bishop Michael was a prime target for the Nazi forces but declined opportunities from Polish authorities to flee the city, choosing instead to stay and administer the diocese to the people of Wloclawek.

On the 14th of September, the Nazis arrived in his city. They seized Catholic property, suppressed writings and arrested members of the clergy. On November 7th, Michael along with other priests was arrested and sent to the local jail which the Nazis used for torture. In January of 1940, Michael was placed under house arrest and was able to continue some of his work in secret.

On the 3rd of April of 1941, Bishop Michael was sent to the forced labour camp at Inowroclaw where he was tortured and reported injuries to his legs and left ear. On April 25th Bishop Kozal was sent to the concentration camp at Dachau where he was given the number 24544. To the more than 2,000 priests imprisoned with him, the Bishop is reported to have said "I am only a number here, too, and I am determined to carry my cross along with the rest of you." Eventually the Bishop contracted typhus and was then killed by lethal injection on 26 January 1943. His body was later burned in the crematorium at Dachau.

A cathedral in Wloclawek erected a monument to Michael and the other 220 priests who died at Dachau in 1954. Bishop Michael Kozal was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 14 June 1987 and now is forever known as Blessed. January 26th is now a day of liturgical celebration for this martyr of the faith.

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