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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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surname

NEJMAK

forename(s)

Vaclav (pl. Wacław)

function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Pinsk diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Lutsk diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Lutsk‐Zhytomyr diocese (aeque principaliter)more on
www.catholic-hierarchy.org
[access: 2021.12.19]

academic distinctions

Doctor of Canon Law

honorary titles

Papal super–numerary private chamberlainmore on
en.wikisource.org
[access: 2020.12.11]

honorary canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
(Łuck cathedralmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
)

honorary canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
(Mogilev cathedral)

date and place
of death

14.11.1942

KL Koldichevoconcentration camp
today: Kołdyczewo, Haradzišča ssov., Baranavichy dist., Brest reg., Belarus

more on
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[access: 2023.01.18]

alt. dates and places
of death

Stowbtsytoday: Stowbtsy dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2022.12.25]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, and start of German occupation, arrested by the Germans on c. 28.06.1942, together with Fr Casimir Dąbrowski and Fr Anthony Leusz, among others.

Jailed in Stowbtsy prison.

Next deported to KL Koldychevo concentration camp and murdered in a car turned into a gas chamber in the Lachówka forest, together with at least 6 other clerics (44 victims in total, mainly representatives of local Polish intelligentsia).

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans / Belarusians

sites and events

KL KoldichevoClick to display the description, StowbtsyClick to display the description, «Polenaktion» 1942Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

1882

Illyashivkatoday: Illyashivka hrom., Starokostiantyniv rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.08.19]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1907

positions held

1935 – 1942

parish priest — Svyerzhantoday: Novyi Svyerzhan, Novyi Svyerzhan ssov., Stowbtsy dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2023.01.18]
⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Stowbtsytoday: Stowbtsy dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.12.25]
RC deanery — also: county inspector of religion classes in elementary schools (till c. 1939)

1932 – 1942

administrator — Svyerzhantoday: Novyi Svyerzhan, Novyi Svyerzhan ssov., Stowbtsy dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2023.01.18]
⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Stowbtsytoday: Stowbtsy dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.12.25]
RC deanery — also: county inspector of religion classes in elementary schools (from c. 1933)

1926 – 1932

parish priest — Kremenetstoday: Kremenets urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.10.18]
⋄ St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Kremenetstoday: Kremenets urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.10.18]
RC deanery ⋄ Kremenetstoday: Kremenets urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.10.18]
RC deanery — also: inspector of religious education in the Kremenets poviat/county (from 1930)

1924 – 1926

rector — Lutsktoday: Lutsk city rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Theological Seminary — lecturer in canon law, liturgy and Latin; also: vice–chair of the Consistory i.e. Diocesan Curia, vice–president of the Bishop's Diocesan Court in Lutsk and the rector of the Sacred Heart of Jesus chapel in Krasne, a suburb of Lutsk (c. 1925)

1922 – 1923

vice–rector — Lutsktoday: Lutsk city rai., Volyn, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Theological Seminary — lecturer in canon law, liturgy and Latin; also: vice–chair of the Consistory i.e. Diocesan Curia, vice–president of the Bishop's Diocesan Court in Lutsk

1923 – 1926

administrator — Velyki Mezhyrichitoday: Velyki Mezhyrichi hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ RC parish ⋄ Koretstoday: Korets urban hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.12.19]
RC deanery ⋄ Koretstoday: Korets urban hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.12.19]
RC deanery

1922 – 1923

parish priest — Huta Stepańskaform.: Wacławówka (c. 1922‐1923)
today: Huta, Kostopil urban hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne, Ukraine

more on
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[access: 2021.09.20]
⋄ Sacred Heart of Jesus RC parish ⋄ Kostopiltoday: Kostopil urban hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.12.19]
RC deanery

c. 1921 – c. 1922

prefect — Kremenetstoday: Kremenets urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.10.18]
⋄ St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Kremenetstoday: Kremenets urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.10.18]
RC deanery — Gymnasium and Teachers' Seminary

c. 1920 – 1921

administrator — Yampiltoday: Yampil hrom., Shepetivka rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Transfiguration of the Lord RC parish ⋄ Kremenetstoday: Kremenets urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.10.18]
RC deanery — also: head of a 7‐grade elementary school in Bilozirka, diocesan censor of religious books

c. 1920

administrator — Khodorkivtoday: Popilnia hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Cajetan the Confessor RC parish ⋄ Skvyratoday: Skvyra urban hrom., Bila Tserkva rai., Kiev, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

c. 1919 – c. 1920

parish priest — Makhnivkatoday: Makhnivka hrom., Khmilnyk rai., Vinnytsia, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ St John of Nepomuk the Martyr RC parish ⋄ Berdychivtoday: Berdychiv urban hrom., Berdychiv rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.05.06]
RC deanery

1910 – 1919

prefect — Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ St Sophie RC cathedral parish ⋄ Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery — i.a. Gymnasium No. 4 for girls (c. 1910‐1917) and School of Commerce (c. 1915‐1919); also: defender of the marriage bond at the Bishop's Diocesan Court (c. 1910‐1919), assessor of the Consistory i.e. Diocesan Curia (c. 1915‐1916), censor of religious books at the Consistory (c. 1919)

c. 1910

vicar — Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ St Sophie RC cathedral church

1907 – 1910

student — Rometoday: Rome prov., Lazio reg., Italy
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ canon law — postgraduate specialised studies, prob. crowned with Canon Law PhD degree

1904 – 1907

student — Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

others related
in death

DĄBROWSKIClick to display biography Casimir, JEZIERSKIClick to display biography John, KOWRECKIClick to display biography Casimir, LEUSZClick to display biography Anthony, MACKIEWICZClick to display biography Anthony, NOWAKClick to display biography Stanislav Leonard

sites and events
descriptions

KL Koldichevo: German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL and death/extermination camp operational from 03.1942 to 07.1944 in Koldychevo village, 20 km from Baranavichy, in Belarus — to be precise in Germ. Generalbezirk Weißruthenien (Eng. General Districtorate of Belarus), part of the occupation entity called the Germ. Reichskommissariat Ostland (Eng. Reichskommissariat East). Jews and Poles, among others, were held in the camp, which was supervised by several Germans, but the managers, guards and executioners were Belarusians, and the language of orders and commands was Belarusian — the crew were members of the 4th Company of the 13th Belarusian Police Battalion SD (Germ. Weissruthenische Schutzmannschafts Bataillon der SD 13), which was part of the collaborationist Germ. Weißruthenische Hilfspolizei (Eng. Belarusian Auxiliary Police). A crematorium was opened in the camp. It witnessed c. 22,000 victims being murdered and exterminated — men, women, children, old, of various professions and social status, mainly Polish nationals, including c. 24 Catholic priests. Some of them were murdered by deadly gas, prob. in specially equipped trucks (the bodies were subsequently dumped in Lakhivka forest, c. 2 km from the camp). Others were taken to Polonka and murdered there. Victims were also murdered by the Belarusians with a shot to the back of the head or with sticks with protruding nails. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.08.31]
, www.sztetl.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04]
)

Stowbtsy: Prison and detention centre managed by Russians, then Germans and finally by Russians again.

«Polenaktion» 1942: In the summer of 1942 in German‐occupied Germ. Generalbezirk Weißruthenien (Eng. General Region of Belarus) — in Nowogródek region among others — Germans carried out «Polenaktion» initiative: the name introduced in a special resolution drafted by Reichssicherheitshauptamt RSHA (Eng. Reich Main Security Office). The action included sacking of all Poles from civilian regional apparatus and police and replacing them with Belarusians. Thousands of Poles were also forcibly deported to Germany as slave labourers. On 26‐30.06.1942 in all counties of the region more than 1,000 representatives of Polish intelligentsia were arrested and subsequently murdered. In Lida region 16 Polish priests were arrested among others. 5 Polish parish priests from Hlybokaye and Pastavy deanery were murdered as well. At the same time Germans set up KL Koldichevo concentration camp n. Baranavichy. The implementation of this genocide project was entrusted to Belarusian police formations supported by Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian and Russian (RONA) collaborators.

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 World War II 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 Stanislav 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
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)

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
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bibliographical:
Martyrology of the Polish Roman Catholic clergy under nazi occupation in 1939‐1945”, Victor Jacewicz, John Woś, vol. I‐V, Warsaw Theological Academy, 1977‐1981
Register of Latin rite Lviv metropolis clergy’s losses in 1939‐45”, Józef Krętosz, Maria Pawłowiczowa, editors, Opole, 2005
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Mysterium iniquitatis. Clergy and religious of the Latin rite murdered by Ukrainian nationalists in 1939‐1945”, Fr Józef Marecki, Institute of National Remembrance IPN, Kraków 2020

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