Roman Catholic
St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland
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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland
XX century (1914 – 1989)
personal data
surname
SKOREL
forename(s)
Joseph (pl. Józef)
function
diocesan priest
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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diocese / province
Pinsk diocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
Minsk diocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]
Mogilev archdiocesemore on
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[access: 2013.06.23]
Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
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[access: 2014.12.20]
academic distinctions
Theology MA
honorary titles
„Cross of Independence”more on
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[access: 2019.02.02]
Gold „Cross of Merit”more on
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[access: 2019.04.16]
Commemorative Medal for War of 1918-21more on
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[access: 2019.10.13]
Ten Years of Independence Medalmore on
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[access: 2019.10.13]
Bronze Medal „For Long Service”more on
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[access: 2020.05.25]
date and place
of death
30.04.1940
Tvertoday: Tver oblast, Russia
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alt. dates and places
of death
29.04.1940, 01.05.1940
details of death
During ministry in Bobruisk, while serving among Polish youth, came into contact with the clandestine Polish Military Organisation POW.
Became a liaison point for POW couriers.
On the night of 16‑17.07.1919 — when at the beginning of the Polish–Russian war of 1919‑1921 the Polish troops were moving towards Berezina river — after seventh in a row search of his premises, arrested by agents of the Russian criminal organization Cheka.
Interrogated by the head of the Cheka himself, the criminal Felix Dzerzhinsky, but released after three weeks.
During main battles of the Polish–Russian war, a chaplain on the Belarusian–Lithuanian front.
During Polish–Russian war of 1920 chaplain of the 2.
Infantry Regiment of Polish Legions.
Took part in Belarus–Lithuania front campaign.
After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II participant of Warsaw defense as the chaplain of Ujazdowskie hospital.
Prob. before Warsaw fall left the city and attempted to move east.
There on 25.12.1939 arrested by the Russians.
Jailed in Kozielsk concentration camp.
On Christmas Eve of 24.12.1939, in a group of 41 Polish POWs, including 9 military chaplains, moved to Butyrki prison in Moscow.
From there on 29.12.1939 transported to 1940 to Ostaszków concentration camp.
From there transported to Twer execution site — his name is on the NKVD Transportation List No 051/2 of [27] April 1940 (no day–date given), item 15 (case No 5773) — and brutally murdered.
cause of death
mass murder
perpetrators
Russians
date and place
of birth
12.06.1893
Navahrudaktoday: Navahrudak dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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alt. dates and places
of birth
01.06.1893
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
15.04.1916 (Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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positions held
from 25.09.1919
chaplain {Polish Army}, professional (with seniority of 01.06.1919), from 04.02.1934 senior chaplain i.e. in the rank of major(with seniority of 01.06.1919), posthumously promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel (decision No 439/MON of 05.10.2007)
1922 – 1939
chaplain {Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.10.09], 1st Military District Hospital (from 1927 Marshall Joseph Piłsudski's District Hospital), Command of the Corps District DOK No. I Warsaw, Polish Army}, also: promoter of justice in the Court of the Field Bishop of the Polish Army (1927‑1932), chaplain of the Sanitary Training Center, which included — apart from his hospital — the School of Sanitary Cadets (from 1930), alumnus of the State Teachers' Institute, chaplain and lecturer of ethics at the Higher School of Engineering (from 1936)
1922 – 1924
student {Warsawtoday: Warsaw city pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.10.09], Department of Catholic Theology, [University of Warsaw /from 1945/, University — clandestine, underground /1939‑45/, Joseph Piłsudski University /1935‑39/, University of Warsaw /1915‑35/, Imperial University of Warsaw /1870–1915/]}, postgraduate specialized studies crowned on 17.02.1925 with Master of Holy Theology degree
1921 – 1922
chaplain {Grudziądztoday: Grudziądz city pov., Kuyavia–Pomerania voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.02], 8th Military District Hospital (till 1921 Garrison Hospital No 1), Command of the Corps District DOK No. VIII Toruń, Polish Army}, also: chaplain of the Camp of Non–commissioned Officer Schools (including the Central Riding School and the Military Police School)
1919 – 1921
chaplain {Polish Army}, during Polish–Russian War of 1919‑1921 chaplain of the 2nd Legions Infantry Regiment (from 25.09.1919), Bialystok Rifle Regiment as part of the 4th Brigade of the 1st Lithuanian–Belarusian Division (from 12.01.1920), Brest–Litovsk Fortress (from 12.01.1920 ), Garrison Hospital No 1 in Grudziądz (from 14.08.1920)
1918 – 1919
prefect {parish: Babruysktoday: Babruysk dist., Mogilev reg., Belarus
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[access: 2020.12.11], Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Babruysktoday: Babruysk dist., Mogilev reg., Belarus
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1916 – 1918
student {Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31], philosophy and theology, Imperial Roman Catholic Spiritual Academy (1842‑1918)}, specialized studies, interrupted after the Bolsheviks suspended the activities of the Academy
1911 – 1916
student {Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31], philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary}
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, ROMANOWSKIClick to display biography Victor, SZWEDClick to display biography Bronislaus, WOJTYNIAKClick to display biography Ceslaus, ZAKRZEWSKIClick to display biography Francis
murder sites
camp
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Tver: On 04.04–22.05.1940 Russians executed in Tver c. 6,314 Polish prisoners of war (POW) kept in Ostaszków concentration camp. The prisoners were brought to the NKVD building (now Tver Medical Institute at Sovetskaya Str., formerly classical gymnasium), identified, chained, and then murdered by a shot from a German Walther P38 pistol into the back of the head. The bodies where next dumped in mass graves in ditches in the Miednoje forest. 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. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09])
Ostaszków (prisoner no: 5773): In 1939‑40 in Ostaszków — in practice on Seliger lake Stołobnyj and Swietlica islands, c. 11 km from Ostaszków, in a former Orthodox monastery, Niłowo–Stołobieńska Hermitage — Russians set a concentration camp for Poles arrested after 1939 invasion of Poland. In 04.1940 6,570 were kept there out of which approx. 6,300 were subsequently — as the fulfillment of Russian government decision to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and prisoners of war camps (Polish holocaust) — executed in Twer. (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
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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
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Warsaw (Black Monday): On 25.09.1939 from 7:00 till late evening more than 400 German bombers made aerial raids on Warsaw. Almost 630 tons of explosives, both incendiary and demolishing were dropped. Caused c. 200 fires. Public building were not spared, including hospitals clearly marked with Red Cross signs (in fact they were targeted in the first place). Holy Ghost hospital was among them and c. 700 people, both patients and staff were killed (including 20 Vincentian sisters). Altogether during the raids called „Black Monday” c. 10,000 people perished, 35,000 were wounded, mostly civilian. The raids were in contravention of Hague agreements and must be regarded as an act of war crime. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.04.18])
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 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-Russian war of 1919—21: War for independence of Poland and its borders. Poland regained independence in 1918 but had to fight for its borders with former imperial powers, in particular Russia. Russia planned to incite Bolshevik–like revolutions in the Western Europe and thus invaded Poland. Russian invaders were defeated in 08.1920 in a battle called Warsaw battle („Vistula river miracle”, one of the 10 most important battles in history, according to some historians). Thanks to this victory Poland recaptured part of the lands lost during partitions of Poland in XVIII century, and Europe was saved from the genocidal Communism. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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