Roman Niewitecki, born in Wielkopolska under partitions, and raised in a national and Catholic spirit by parents, decided to pursue a priestly and religious vocation among the Salesians. His formation and education were interrupted by the mobilization to the Prussian army after the outbreak of World War I, from which he returned after more than five years as a war invalid. He was ordained as a priest in 1926 in Turin. He focused on teaching and educational institutions in his ministry, mainly as a supervisor in Pohrebenie in Upper Silesia and Daszawa near Stryj. The NKVD arrested him in June 1940. Deported to the Karelo-Finnish Soviet republic, he died a year and a half later in terrible living and working conditions in a gulag. The Salesians learned about the time and place of Fr Roman Niewitecki’s death only in 1946.