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surname

ROMANOWSKI

forename(s)

Victor (pl. Wiktor)

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function

presbiter (i.e. iereus)

creed

Eastern Orthodox Church ORmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Volyn OR eparchy (Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PAOC)more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]

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

academic distinctions

Sacred Orthodox Theology MA

honorary titles

War Order of Virtuti Militari — Silver (5th Class)more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.10.13]

September Campaign Crossmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.11.24]

Gold „Cross of Meritmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.04.16]

date and place
of death

04.1940

Tvertoday: Tver oblast, Russia
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]

alt. dates and places
of death

05.1940

details of death

In 1932, appointed chaplain of the reserve of the Polish Army, with seniority from 01.01.1932 (by law for a two–year term).

In 1934 called up for active service in the Polish Army.

During the mobilization announced by the Polish authorities in 08.1939, assigned as a chaplain to the the University of Warsaw field hospital, which was planned to be created in the basement of the Holy Cross church in Warsaw.

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of Russian occupation, arrested by the Russians after 17.09.1939, in unknown circumstances.

Jailed in Kozelsk concentration camp.

Next on 23‐24.12.1939 prob. moved to Butyrki prison in Moscow and on 29.12.1940 to Ostashkov concentration camp.

From Ostashkov — his name is on the NKVD deportation list No. 05/3 prepared on 05.04.1940, item 74 (case No. 1942), with an order to be placed at the disposal of the head of the NKVD Directorate in Tver — deported prob. in 04.1940 (the date is unknown, but judging by the date of preparation of the deportation list, deportation took place — as in other known cases — shortly thereafter) to the execution site in Tver and murdered.

By Polish Minister of Defence’s decision No. 439/MON of 05.10.2007 posthumously promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel.

prisoner camp's numbers

1942 (KLW OstashkovClick to display the description)

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

Tver (NKWD murders 1940)Click to display the description, «Katyn genocide 1940»Click to display the description, KLW OstashkovClick to display the description, KLW KozelskClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

02.11.1899

Temnohaitsitoday: Velyki Dederkaly hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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alt. dates and places
of birth

02.09.1899

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

25.03.1921/07.04.1921

positions held

1939

mitred — Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP — dignity conferment, the right to wear the liturgical headgear in the form of a four–part closed crown with images of God, the Mother of God and some saints, decorated with precious stones

1935 – 1939

dean — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ Command of the Corps District DOK No. I Warsaw, Polish Armed Forces — prob. acting („ad interim”); also: regional chaplain of the State Police, priest of the local Orthodox parish in Warsaw

c. 1935 – c. 1939

lecturer — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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⋄ Orthodox Theology Department, University of Warsaw [i.e. University of Warsaw (from 1945) / clandestine University (1939‐1945) / Joseph Piłsudski University (1935‐1939) / University of Warsaw (1915‐1935) / Imperial University of Warsaw (1870‐1915)]

01.07.1935

OR senior military chaplain — Polish Armed Forces — commissioned, in the rank of major

31.12.1933 – 1935

regional Orthodox chaplain — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Command of the Corps District DOK No. I Warsaw, Polish Armed Forces — commissioned, in the rank of captain

c. 1930 – c. 1934

support chaplain — Volodymyr‐Volynskyitoday: Volodymyr, Volodymyr urban hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ garrison, Command of the Corps District DOK No. II Lublin, Polish Armed Forces

dean — Volodymyr‐Volynskyitoday: Volodymyr, Volodymyr urban hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
OR deanery

20.05.1930 – c. 1934

parish priest — Volodymyr‐Volynskyitoday: Volodymyr, Volodymyr urban hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR cathedral church — also: prob. member of the Consistory of the Volhynia Eparchy (c. 1934), president of the Missionary District Committee in Volhynia (from c. 1933)

till 1931

student — Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.10.09]
⋄ Orthodox Theology Department, University of Warsaw [i.e. University of Warsaw (from 1945) / clandestine University (1939‐1945) / Joseph Piłsudski University (1935‐1939) / University of Warsaw (1915‐1935) / Imperial University of Warsaw (1870‐1915)] — postgraduate specialised studies, crowned on 19.09.1931 with the Master of Sacred Orthodox Theology diploma

31.05.1930

protoiereus (Eng. first priest) — Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP — dignity conferment

16.01.1925 – 27.01.1927

dean — 6th deanery (Kremenets)Orthodox deanery name
today: Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
OR deanery — earlier: acting („ad interim”)

1921 – 1930

parish priest — Lanivtsitoday: Lanivtsi urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.07.05]
⋄ Intercession of the Mother of God OR parish ⋄ 6th deanery (Kremenets)Orthodox deanery name
today: Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
OR deanery

1918 – c. 1920

student — Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ history and philosophy, St Vladimir University

1914 – 1918

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

married

others related
in death

DUBIELClick to display biography Alexander, JANASClick to display biography Mieczyslav, KACPRZAKClick to display biography Joseph, MARCOŃClick to display biography Mieczyslav, MASŁOŃClick to display biography Vladislav, MIKUCZEWSKIClick to display biography Joseph, MIODUSZEWSKIClick to display biography John, NOWAKClick to display biography Edmund, OCHABClick to display biography Vladimir, PASZKOClick to display biography Richard, SKORELClick to display biography Joseph, SZWEDClick to display biography Bronislav, WOJTYNIAKClick to display biography Ceslav, ZAKRZEWSKIClick to display biography Francis

sites and events
descriptions

Tver (NKWD murders 1940): On 04.04‐22.05.1940 the Russians executed in Tver c. 6,314 Polish prisoners of war (POW) kept in Ostaszkov concentration camp. The prisoners were brought — Tver is c. 190 km from Ostashkov — to the NKVD HQ building (now Tver Medical Institute at Sovetskaya Str., formerly classical gymnasium) identified one by one in a basement room known as the „Lenin’s room”, handcuffed, taken to another room cellar with a door covered with felt, and then murdered by a shot from a German Walther P38 pistol into the back of the head. The bodies where next dumped into mass graves in ditches in the Miednoje forest, in the NKVD summer resort, and covered with sand by an excavator. The murders were part of an organized Russian genocidal operation against Polish prisoners of war, bearing all the hallmarks of genocide, known as the «Katyn genocide». (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
, en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]
)

«Katyn genocide 1940»: On 05.03.1940, the Russian Commie‐Nazi authorities — the Politburo of the Russian Communist Party — made a formal decision to exterminate tens of thousands of Polish intelligentsia and military personnel held in Russian camps as a consequence of the German‐Russian Ribbentrop‐Molotov Agreement, the invasion of Poland and the annexation of half of Poland in 09.1939, and the beginning of World War II. The implementing act was order No. 00350 of the head of the NKVD, Mr Lavrentyi Beria, on the „discharge of NKVD prisons” in Ukraine and Belarus. The entire action — the murders were committed, among others, in Katyn, Kharkov, Tver, Bykovnia and Kuropaty — was coordinated centrally from the NKVD headquarters in Moscow. This is evidenced by the so‐called deportation lists of subsequent groups of Polish prisoners (usually about 100 people) from NKVD camps sent to places of execution, prepared and distributed a few days before the executions from Moscow. It is also evidenced by the earlier deportations of Polish priests from the Kozelsk, Ostashkov and Starobilsk NKVD camps to NKVD prison in Moscow, or their isolation, just before Christmas on 25.12.1939, prob. in order to deprive Polish prisoners of spiritual care at that time — clearly actions controlled from the NKVD HQ in Moscow. There are indications — i.e. four so‐called „NKVD‐Gestapo Methodical Conferences” of 1939‐1940: in Brest 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, Mr Hermann Göring, hunting lodge in Rominty in Romincka Forest in East Prussia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.12.15]
)

KLW Ostashkov: Russian Rus. Концентрационный Лагерь для Военнопленных (Eng. POW Concentration Camp) KLW, run by genocidal Russian NKVD organization, for Poles arrested after the invasion in 1939, operating in 1939‐1940 in Ostashkov — in practice on Seliger lake Stolbnoy island and Svetlitsa peninsula, c. 11 km from Ostashkov, in a former Orthodox monastery, Niłowo‐Stołobieńska Hermitage, looted and shut down by Russian Bolsheviks in 1928. In 04.1940 6,570 were held captive there (in 11.1940 — 8397), out of which c. 6,300 were subsequently — as the fulfillment of Russian government decision to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and prisoners of war camps (Polish holocaust) — executed in Tver. Among the victims were officers of the Polish State Police, the Border Protection Corps KOP, Military Police, the Prison Service, officers and soldiers of the Polish Army, intelligence and counterintelligence officers of the Second Department of the General Staff, priests, employees of the judiciary, the fire brigade, foresters and military settlers from the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic. On another island of Lake Seliger, Gorodomla, in 1946‐1953 the Russians held a group of German specialists from Wernher von Braun's team, who, under the direction of Sergei Korolev, worked on Russian missiles. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
)

KLW Kozelsk: Russian Rus. Концентрационный Лагерь для Военнопленных (Eng. POW Concentration Camp) KLW, run by genocidal Russian NKVD organization, for Poles arrested after the invasion in 1939, operating in 1939‐1940 in Kozelsk — on the premises of the 18th century Orthodox Stauropygial Introduction of the Mother of God into the Temple Optyn Monastery, shut down and robbed by the Russian Bolsheviks in 1923. In 04‐05.1940, c. 4,594 people were detained there, who were then — as part of the implementation of the decision of the Russian authorities to exterminate dozens thousands of Polish intelligentsia and military personnel — murdered in Katyn. The prisoners included one rear admiral of the Polish Navy, four generals, c. 100 colonels and lieutenant colonels, c. 300 majors and c. 1,000 captains and captains of the Polish Army. Around half of them were reserve officers, including: 21 professors, associate professors and lecturers at universities, over 300 doctors, several hundred lawyers, several hundred engineers, several hundred teachers and many writers, journalists and publicists. There was also one woman, 2nd Leutenant pilot Janine Lewandowska. (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 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
[access: 2015.09.30]
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