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Ksiądz Witold Dariusz Dzięcioł – świadectwo więźnia obozów koncentracyjnych
(Wydawnictwo KUL, 2011) Szymański, Józef
The Rev. Dzięcioł Witold Dariusz was the priest of the Diocese of Kielce, the Rector of the Polish Catholic Mission in Australia. He was born on 19 December 1907 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki and ordained a priest on 21 June 1931. 20 May 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo in the Tax Chamber in Kielce for issuing a certificate to a Jew allowing him to go to Vienna for treatment. Until 1 July 1942 he stayed in a political department of the prison in Kielce. 2 July he was transferred to Auschwitz (Oświęcim), 8 July to Mauthausen, 17 July to Gusen, where he remained until 13 November 1944. There again he was transferred to Mauthausen and 30 November 1944 to Dachau, where he stayed until liberation - 29 April 1945, camp number 134 367. He left a letter, an account of his imprisonment and stay in concentration camps. The account was written at the explicit request of the Rev. Władysław Czeluśniak, with whom he worked in the Cathedral Parish of Kielce.