Rev. Stanley Dabrowski papers

Reverend Stanley Dabrowski (1913-1995) was born Stanislaw P. Dabrowski in Warsaw, Poland to Wladyslaw Dabrowski and Antonina Zagorski. He had a brother and a sister and attended high school and early college in Grudziądz. After a brief time of military service, he entered the seminary in Włocławek for the Diocese of Wladislaviensis. In November 1939 along with the faculty and other students in the seminary, Rev. Dabrowski was arrested by the Gestapo while watching over the chancery one evening. He and 400 others from his diocese were imprisoned first at Sachsenhausen and in December 1940, transferred to Dachau. Rev. Dabrowski remained detained in Dachau with other priests until the camp was liberated by the United States Army in April 1945. After liberation, Rev. Dabrowski worked among other Poles in exile in Paris and taught classes in religious education. In July 1945 Rev. Dabrowski was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Wladislaviensis by the Archbishop of Paris. In 1946, Rev. Dabrowski obtained a visa for the United States and traveled aboard victory ship Frederick H. Rattjer to New York City. He ultimately settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin after visiting family there and finding a job with the Ss. Cyril and Methodius parish, where he lived and worked for 14 years. During this time, Rev. Dabrowski was incardinated into the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Rev. Dabrowski also served the St. Hyacinth parish, which was his last parochial assignment, as he then became chaplain of St. Francis Hospital until his retirement in 1970. Rev. Dabrowski passed away in 1995 in Milwaukee.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

The Reverend Stanley Dabrowski collection were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by the Estate of Stanley Dabrowski with assistance from Barbara Dominiak.