[1][2] He was ordained as a priest just prior to the beginning of World War II in which he became a vocal critic of the Nazi regime and its actions; this earned him their ire and he was arrested before being sent to the Dachau concentration camp where he was administered a lethal injection.

[3] His two sisters were Marja and Marta and his three brothers were Jan and Great and Alfons who was the sixth child and a Jesuit who died in World War II as a soldier.

[4] Andritzki received his ordination to the priesthood on 30 July 1939 in Bautzen from Bishop Petrus Legge and he celebrated his first Mass in Radibor on the following 6 August.

[1][3] He was interrogated on 7 February 1941 and was first sent to the detention center at Dresden but was moved two months later on 2 October 1941 to the Dachau concentration camp with the prisoner number 27829.

Cardinal Angelo Amato presided over it on the pope's behalf on 13 June 2011 in Dresden with around 11,000 people in attendance including the Bishop of Dresden-Meissen, Joachim Reinelt, and the Saxony State Premier Stanislaw Tillich.