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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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  • CHOMA Edward Anthony - Before 1938, source: pl.wikipedia.org, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOCHOMA Edward Anthony
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surname

CHOMA

forename(s)

Edward Anthony (pl. Edward Antoni)

  • CHOMA Edward Anthony - Commemorative plaque, Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven military church, Skierniewice, source: lowicz.gosc.pl, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOCHOMA Edward Anthony
    Commemorative plaque, Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven military church, Skierniewice
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  • CHOMA Edward Anthony - Commemorative plaque, monument, Wąwolnica, source: radio.lublin.pl, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOCHOMA Edward Anthony
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  • CHOMA Edward Anthony - Commemorative plaque, Exultation of the Holy Cross monastery, Kalwaria Pacławska, source: ofm.krakow.pl, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOCHOMA Edward Anthony
    Commemorative plaque, Exultation of the Holy Cross monastery, Kalwaria Pacławska
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    Commemorative plaque, military field cathedral, Warsaw
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    Commemorative plaque, military field cathedral, Warsaw
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    Commemorative plaque, St Stanislaus church, Sankt Petersburg
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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Lviv archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.12.20]

honorary titles

„Cross of Valour”more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

Order of „Polonia Restituta”more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

date and place
of death

05.1940

Katyntoday: Smolensk reg., Smolensk oblast, Russia
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[access: 2020.09.24]

details of death

During World War I chaplain of the Austrian army: 105th Field Hospital and 100th Infantry Regiment.

During Polish–Ukrainian war of 1918‑9 chaplain of the 3rd line of Polish Lviv defense.

Next during Polish–Russian war of 1920 chaplain to the 4th Infantry Division of the Polish Army.

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II chaplain to the Polish Army fighting German aggression in the rank of major (posthumously lieutenant colonel).

After 17.09.1939 arrested by the Russians.

Jailed in Starobielsk concentration camp.

Next on Christmas Eve of 24.12.1939 transported to Moscow and jailed in Butyrki prison.

In the spring of 1940 moved to Kozielsk concentration camp.

From there transported to Katyń execution site and brutally murdered.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

26.12.1889

Zolochivtoday: Zolochiv urban hrom., Zolochiv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

13.07.1913 (Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16]
)

positions held

1936 – 1939

parish priest {parish: Radomtoday: Radom city pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.29]
, St Stanislaus the Bishop and Martyr; Command of the Corps District DOK No. I Warsaw, Polish Army; military}

1930 – 1936

parish priest {parish: Slonimtoday: Slonim dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.09.29]
, military Holy Savior; Command of the Corps District DOK No. IX Brest, Polish Army; dean.: Slonimtoday: Slonim dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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}

1926 – 1930

parish priest {parish: Skierniewicetoday: Skierniewice city pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
, main parish Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Military Pastoral Area, Command of the Corps District DOK No. IV Łódź, Polish Army; military}

1921 – 1926

senior chaplain {Skierniewicetoday: Skierniewice city pow., Łódź voiv., Poland
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, Military Pastoral Area, Command of the Corps District DOK No. IV Łódź, Polish Army}

1916 – 1917

curatus/rector/expositus {parish: Yazlovetstoday: Buchach urban hrom., Chortkiv rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.11.15]
, main parish Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; church: Buryakivkatoday: Tovste hrom., Chortkiv rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.06.29]
, St Joseph Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Yazlovetstoday: Buchach urban hrom., Chortkiv rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.15]
}

1916

vicar {parish: Yazlovetstoday: Buchach urban hrom., Chortkiv rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.15]
, main parish Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Yazlovetstoday: Buchach urban hrom., Chortkiv rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.15]
}

1913 – 1916

vicar {parish: Bolekhivtoday: Bolekhiv rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano–Frankivsk, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.10.13]
, main parish Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Dolynatoday: Dolyna urban hrom., Kalush rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano–Frankivsk, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.20]
}

till 1913

student {Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16]
, Department of Theology, John Casimir University — clandestine, underground /1941‑1944/, Ivan Franko University /1940‑1941/, John Casimir University /1919‑1939/, Franciscan University /1817‑1918/}

1909 – 1913

student {Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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, philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary}

others related
in death

ALEKSANDROWICZClick to display biography Anthony, CICHOWICZClick to display biography Nicholas, DRABCZYŃSKIClick to display biography Ignatius Marian (Cl. Dominic), FEDOROŃKOClick to display biography Simon, ILKÓWClick to display biography Nicholas, KONTEKClick to display biography Stanislaus, POHORECKIClick to display biography John, POTOCKIClick to display biography John Josaphat, SUCHCICKIClick to display biography Casimir, URBANClick to display biography Vladislav Michael, ZIÓŁKOWSKIClick to display biography John Leo, SZEPTYCKIClick to display biography Andrew Mary Stanislaus

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

Katyń: From 03.04.1940 till 12.05.1940 Russians in a planned genocide executed in Katyń approx. 4,400 Polish prisoners of war (POW) kept in Kozielsk concentration camp. This was a fulfillment of Russian Commie–Nazi government decision – Political Bureau of the Russian Commie–Nazi party of 05.03.1940 – to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and individuals held in Russian POW camps following Ribbentrop–Molotov German–Russian accord and annexation of half of Poland into Russia, confirmed by the order No.00350 of the head of the NKVD, Mr Lavrentyi Beria, on the "discharge of NKVD prisons" in Ukraine and Belarus. There are indications – i.e. 4 so–called "NKVD–Gestapo Methodical Conferences" of 1939–40: in Brześć on Bug, Przemyśl, Zakopane and Cracow – of close collaboration between Germans and Russians in realization of plans of total extermination of Polish nation, its elites in particular – decision that prob. was confirmed during meeting of socialist leaders of Germany: Mr Heinrich Himmler, and Russia: Mr Lavrentyi Beria, in another German leader's hunting lodge: Mr Hermann Göring, in Rominty in Romincka Forest in East Prussia. Earlier at the same spot Russians murdered thousands of victims in 1937. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21]
)

Kozielsk: In 1939‑40 in Kozielsk Russians set a concentration camp for Poles arrested after 1939 invasion of Poland. In 04.1940 approx. 4,300 were kept there and subsequently— as the fulfillment of Russian government decision to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and prisoners of war camps (Polish holocaust) — were executed in Katyń. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
)

Moscow (Butyrki): Harsh transit and interrogation prison in Moscow — for political prisoners — where Russians held and murdered thousands of Poles. Founded prob. in XVII century. In XIX century many Polish insurgents (Polish uprisings of 1831 and 1863) were held there. During Communist regime a place of internment for political prisoners prior to a transfer to Russian slave labour complex Gulag. During the Great Purge c. 20,000 inmates were held there at any time (c. 170 in every cell). Thousands were murdered. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.05.01]
)

Starobielsk: In 1939‑41 in Starobielsk Russians set a concentration camp for Poles arrested after 1939 invasion of Poland. In 04.1940 approx. 3,800 were kept there and subsequently— as the fulfillment of Russian government decision to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and prisoners of war camps (Polish holocaust) — were executed in Twer. Used as a concentration camp for Poles later as well. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
)

Ribbentrop-Molotov: Genocidal Russian–German alliance pact between Russian leader Joseph Stalin and German leader Adolf Hitler signed on 23.08.1939 in Moscow by respective foreign ministers, Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov for Russia and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany. The pact sanctioned and was the direct cause of joint Russian and German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the II World War in 09.1939. In a political sense, the pact was an attempt to restore the status quo ante before 1914, with one exception, namely the „commercial” exchange of the so–called „Kingdom of Poland”, which in 1914 was part of the Russian Empire, fore Eastern Galicia (today's western Ukraine), in 1914 belonging to the Austro–Hungarian Empire. Galicia, including Lviv, was to be taken over by the Russians, the „Kingdom of Poland” — under the name of the General Governorate — Germany. The resultant „war was one of the greatest calamities and dramas of humanity in history, for two atheistic and anti–Christian ideologies — national and international socialism — rejected God and His fifth Decalogue commandment: Thou shall not kill!” (Abp Stanislaus Gądecki, 01.09.2019). The decisions taken — backed up by the betrayal of the formal allies of Poland, France and Germany, which on 12.09.1939, at a joint conference in Abbeville, decided not to provide aid to attacked Poland and not to take military action against Germany (a clear breach of treaty obligations with Poland) — were on 28.09.1939 slightly altered and made more precise when a treaty on „German–Russian boundaries and friendship” was agreed by the same murderous signatories. One of its findings was establishment of spheres of influence in Central and Eastern Europe and in consequence IV partition of Poland. In one of its secret annexes agreed, that: „the Signatories will not tolerate on its respective territories any Polish propaganda that affects the territory of the other Side. On their respective territories they will suppress all such propaganda and inform each other of the measures taken to accomplish it”. The agreements resulted in a series of meeting between two genocidal organization representing both sides — German Gestapo and Russian NKVD when coordination of efforts to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and Polish leading classes (in Germany called Intelligenzaktion, in Russia took the form of Katyń massacres) where discussed. Resulted in deaths of hundreds of thousands of Polish intelligentsia, including thousands of priests presented here, and tens of millions of ordinary people,. The results of this Russian–German pact lasted till 1989 and are still in evidence even today. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30]
)

Pius XI's encyclicals: Facing the creation of two totalitarian systems in Europe, which seemed to compete with each other, though there were more similarities than contradictions between them, Pope Pius XI issued in 03.1937 (within 5 days) two encyclicals. In the „Mit brennender Sorge” (Eng. „With Burning Concern”) published on 14.03.1938, condemned the national socialism prevailing in Germany. The Pope wrote: „Whoever, following the old Germanic–pre–Christian beliefs, puts various impersonal fate in the place of a personal God, denies the wisdom of God and Providence [...], whoever exalts earthly values: race or nation, or state, or state system, representatives of state power or other fundamental values of human society, […] and makes them the highest standard of all values, including religious ones, and idolizes them, this one […] is far from true faith in God and from a worldview corresponding to such faith”. On 19.03.1937, published „Divini Redemptoris” (Eng. „Divine Redeemer”), in which criticized Russian communism, dialectical materialism and the class struggle theory. The Pope wrote: „Communism deprives man of freedom, and therefore the spiritual basis of all life norms. It deprives the human person of all his dignity and any moral support with which he could resist the onslaught of blind passions [...] This is the new gospel that Bolshevik and godless communism preaches as a message of salvation and redemption of humanity”... Pius XI demanded that the established human law be subjected to the natural law of God , recommended the implementation of the ideal of a Christian state and society, and called on Catholics to resist. Two years later, National Socialist Germany and Communist Russia came together and started World War II. (more on: www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

Polish-Ukrainian war of 1918—9: One of the wars for borders of the newly reborn Poland. At the end of 1918 on the former Austro–Hungarian empire’s territory, based on the Ukrainian military units of the former Austro–Hungarian army, Ukrainians waged war against Poland. In particular attempted to create foundation of an independent state and attacked Lviv. Thanks to heroic stance of Lviv inhabitants, in particular young generation of Poles — called since then Lviv eaglets — the city was recaptured by Poles and for a number of months successfully defended against furious Ukrainian attacks. In 1919 Poland — its newly created army — pushed Ukrainian forces far to the east and south, regaining control over its territory. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2017.05.20]
)

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