Felicjan Organiściak 1922 - 1943

Born 7.6.1922 in Kórnik
Died 6.4.1943 in Gusen

Biography

Felicjan Organiściak was born in Kórnik, Greater Poland, as the second child and the first son of Władysław Organiściak, a merchant from Kórnik, and his wife Joanna Organiściak (nee Frąckowiak), daughter of the master baker from Mosina, Greater Poland. He had an older sister Irena, a younger sister Lubomira and a younger brother Henryk. Their family home was in Kórnik, where he was born. His father died in 1926, when he was four years old and he was brought up by his step-father, Józef Stern, the owner of the restaurant in Kórnik and distiller, originally from Murowana Goślina, Greater Poland, whom his mother married in 1928. Józef Stern was shot on 20 October 1939, in the market of Kórnik in one of the first executions involved in Operation Tannenberg. His name figures on the list of prisoners brought to Papenburg from Sieradz on 15 February 1941, therefore he must have spent some time there. Later he was also put in prison in Rawicz (on 7 June 1942). He was brought to Mauthausen on 12 December 1942 as he was released from Rawicz the day before. He was categorised as a prisoner from “security custody”. A week later he was transferred to Gusen, where he died on 6 April 1943. The given cause of death was “bronchopneumonia”. He was only 20 years old and had had a life ahead of him, untimely taken from him. Gloria victis.

Agnieszka Piasecka, granddaughter of his first cousin

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