Resurrectionist Martyrs – Br. Józef Korman CR.

Brother Józef Korman CR was born on January 3, 1901, in Kaczanówka (Lwów Archdiocese), the son of Grzegorz (d. 1905) and Rozalia (née Kowalczuk). He participated in the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920, defending the Zbruch River. He joined the congregation on April 9, 1921, and made his first vows on May 8, 1923, in Kraków (before Father Paweł Smolikowski CR). He undertook various tasks, including setting up electrical power, at the Parish of the Most Sacred Savior in Warsaw (1923-1926), in Radziwiłłów (1926-1927), and in Poznań at Wilda (1927-1928). He left the congregation just before making his perpetual vows in 1930. However, he quickly returned and re-entered the novitiate on January 17, 1931, renewed his first vows on July 19, 1932, and made his perpetual vows on July 19, 1938, in Skole.

He worked at St. Boniface’s Parish in Warsaw’s Czerniaków district (1932-1933), in Lwów (1933-1935), and as a cook and organist in Skole, Stryi District, Lwów Archdiocese (1935-1941). There, he tragically died, probably on June 30, 1941, in Stryi, during the early days of the German-Soviet war. He was arrested, tortured, and murdered by the Soviet KGB. The reason for his arrest was his refusal to disclose the whereabouts of Father Wojciech Cyrwus, the parish priest, whom the perpetrators were seeking. He was buried on July 5, 1941, in a mass grave in Stryi. During exhumation, his remains were identified.