function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Lutsk diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]
RC Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.12.20]

date and place
of death

04.1940

NKVD Ukrainetoday: Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]

alt. dates and places
of death

1940 (after)

(Russia territory)today: Russia
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[access: 2022.08.05]
NKVD KievHQ at 17 Korolyenky Str.
today: 33 Volodimirska Str., Kiev city rai., Kiev city obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]
NKVD KharkivHQ at 5 Sovnarkomskaya Str.
today: 5 Mirronosits Str., Kharkiv urban hrom., Kharkiv rai., Kharkiv obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.08.05]
Khersontoday: Kherson urban hrom., Kherson rai., Kherson obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.08.05]

details of death

alt. details of death

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

NKVD UkraineClick to display the description, NKVD KharkivClick to display the description, «Katyn genocide 1940»Click to display the description, Kiev (Lyukyanivska)Click to display the description, NKWD KatynClick to display the description, NKVD TverClick to display the description, GulagClick to display the description, LutskClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

07.01.1906

Piotrowotoday: Czerwin gm., Ostrołęka pov., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]

parents

TYSZKA Adolph
🞲 ?, ? — 🕆 ?, ?

CIESZKOWSKA Josefa
🞲 ?, ? — 🕆 ?, ?

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

19.01.1930

Lutsktoday: Lutsk city rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17]

positions held

others related
in death

BĄCZKOWSKIClick to display biography Thaddeus, MATZNERClick to display biography Stanislav Clement, TELEŻYŃSKIClick to display biography Michael, NIEIZWIESTNYClick to display biography Anatol

sites and events
descriptions

NKVD Ukraine: In 04‐05.1940, the Russian genocidal NKVD organization shot in Ukraine — as part of the «Katyn genocide of 1940» — c. 3,435 people (according to some assumptions, there could have been even 4,181). This genocide was the implementation of the decision of the Russian Commie–Nazi authorities — the Politburo of the Russian Commie–Nazi party — of 05.03.1940 to exterminate tens of thousands of Polish intelligentsia and military personnel held in Russian camps established after the German–Russian Ribbentrop–Molotov Agreement and the annexation of half of Poland by the Russians in 1939. After the formal „verdict”, the NKVD Special Council, i.e. genocidal Russian kangaroo court known as «NKVD Troika», in Moscow sent 33 disposition letters to the NKVD in Ukraine, containing the names of people to be murdered. In order to implement it, the head of the NKVD, Lavrentiy Beria, issued on 22.03.1940 order No. 00350 on the „unloading of NKVD prisons”, ordering the transport of prisoners from Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil, Drohobych, Stanislaviv and from the „Volyn” prison to prisons in Kiev, Kharkov and Kherson. There is a known list of 3,435 personal files of executed Polish citizens — sent on 25.11.1940 by the NKVD of Ukraine to the 1st Special Department of the NKVD in Moscow (personally to Leonid Bashtakov, one of the «NKVD Troika» members) — known as the «Ukrainian Katyn List» or «Tsvetukhin's list». It contains names of 726 officers of the Polish Army (including 7 generals), 770 officers of the State Police, 28 officers of the Prison Guard. The rest are civilians. It is not known where they were murdered or where they are buried. An unknown number were held in Lyukyanivska prison in Kiev, and then murdered in the building at 17 Korolyenky Str. (today 33 Volodimirska Str.), the Ukrainian headquarters of the NKVD. The bodies were probably buried in the forest, in Bykivnya near Kiev. Some of the victims were prob. murdered in the NKVD headquarters in Kharkiv, where Polish officers from the KLW Starobilsk concentration camp were also executed. It is not known whether and where they were killed in Kherson. The victims were murdered in soundproof basements, one by one, by the so‐called Katyn method, with a pistol shot to the back of the head. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10], pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10])

NKVD Kharkiv: On 05.04‐12.05.1940 Russians executed in NKVD headquarters at 5 Sovnarkomskaya Str. (today 5 Mirronosits Str.) in Kharkiv c. 3,739 Polish prisoners of war (POW) kept in KLW Starobilsk concentration camp in Starobilsk. This genocide was the implementation of the decision of the Russian Commie‐Nazi authorities — the Politburo of the Russian Commie‐Nazi party — of 05.03.1940 to exterminate tens of thousands of Polish intelligentsia and servicemen, held in Russian camps established after the German‐Russian Ribbentrop‐Molotov Agreement and the annexation of half of Poland by the Russians in 1939, known as «Katyn genocide». After the formal „verdict”, the NKVD Special Council Moscow, i.e. the genocidal Russian kangaroo court known as the «NKVD Troika», sent successive disposition letters to the NKVD in Kharkiv — there were c. 36 of them — containing the names of the persons to be murdered. The murders were committed in the NKVD District Directorate HQ, at 3 Dzerzhinsky Sq. Convoys of prisoners were transported by rail to the Kharkov railway station, and from there by car to the NKVD headquarters. The victims' hands were tied behind their backs with a rope and at night they were taken to a windowless room in the basement. There, they were murdered with a shot in the neck from a 7.62 mm Nagant revolver. Immediately afterwards, the bodies were taken away in trucks and buried in mass graves near Kharkov, 1.5 km from the village of Piatykhatky. Prob. also later, till 06.1940, an unknown number of Poles from the so–called «Ukrainian Katyn List» or «Tsvetukhin's list» were murdered there in the same way. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21])

«Katyn genocide 1940»: 05.03.1940, the Russian Commie‐Nazi authorities — the Politburo of the Russian Commie‐Nazi party headed by Joseph Stalin — made a formal, secret decision No. P13/144 to exterminate tens of thousands of Polish intelligentsia and military personnel, „declared and hopeless enemies of the Russian government”, held in Russian camps, as a consequence of the German‐Russian Ribbentrop‐Molotov Agreement, the invasion of Poland and annexation of half of Poland in 09.1939, and the beginning of World War II. The decision was, as it were, „sanctioned” by the verdicts of the NKVD Special Council, i.e. the genocidal Russian kangaroo court known as «NKVD Troika» in Moscow. The implementation in Ukraine and Belarus was made possible by order No. 00350 of 22.03.1940 of the head of the NKVD, Lavrentiy Beria, on the „unloading of NKVD prisons”, i.e. transfer of prisoners from several prisons in Ukraine and Belarus to central prisons, e.g. in Kiev or Minsk. The genocidal «NKVD Troika», after issuing sentences, also sent to local NKVD units, NKVD disposition lists — i.e. lists of convicts — each containing on average c. 100 names. Named lists are known — may be reconstructed — for people held in the KLW Kozelsk and KLW Ostashkov camps, but not for KLW Starobilsk, known for victims from Ukrainian prisons, but not Belarusian ones. It is not even known exactly how many lists there were, mainly because the number of them sent to the NKVD in Belarus is unknown. On 03.03.1959 Alexander Shelepin, then head of the Russian KGB, in a handwritten note stated: „ Since 1940, the Committee for State Security under the Council of Ministers of Russia, has been keeping records and other materials relating to the prisoners of war and interned officers, gendarmes, policemen, etc., people from former bourgeois Poland shot that year. In total, based on the decision of the special troika of the NKVD of the USSR, 21,857 people were shot, of whom: 4,421 people in the Katyn Forest (Smolensk Oblast), 3,820 people from the Starobilsk camp near Kharkov, 6,311 people from the Ostashkov camp (Kalinin Oblast), and 7,305 people in other camps and prisons in Western Ukraine and Western Belarus. The entire operation of liquidation of the above–mentioned was carried out on the basis of the Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU of 05.03.1940”. The head of the NKVD recommended to the Russian leader, Nikita Khrushchev, to destroy all personal files of those shot in 1940, but to keep the minutes of the meetings of the «NKVD Troika» and confirmations of the implementation of the decisions of the «NKVD Troika». A one–sentence draft resolution was attached to the note. It is not known whether the resolution was accepted and whether the files were destroyed. The aforementioned protocols and confirmations of the «NKVD Troika» are also not known. 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])

Kiev (Lyukyanivska): Russian political prison in Kiev, in the first half of 20th century run by the genocidal NKVD, informally referred to as prison No 1, formally as Investigative Prison No 13 (SIZO#13). It was founded in the early 19th century. In the 20th century, during the Soviet times, the prison church was transformed into another block of cells. During the reign of J. Stalin in Russia, more than 25,000 prisoners passed through it. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21])

NKWD Katyn: From 03.04.1940 till 12.05.1940 Russians in a planned genocide executed in Katyn c. 4,400 Polish POWs kept in KLW Kozelsk concentration camp in Kozelsk. This genocide was the implementation of the decision of the Russian Commie‐Nazi authorities — the Politburo of the Russian Commie‐Nazi party — of 05.03.1940 to exterminate tens of thousands of Polish intelligentsia and servicemen, held in Russian camps established after the German‐Russian Ribbentrop‐Molotov Agreement and the annexation of half of Poland by the Russians in 1939, known as «Katyn genocide». After the formal „verdict”, the NKVD Special Council Moscow, i.e. the genocidal Russian kangaroo court known as the «NKVD Troika», sent successive disposition letters to the NKVD in Smolensk — there were c. 46 of them — containing the names of the persons to be murdered. The victims were brought by train through Smolensk to the Gnezdowo station in convoys, in groups of 50 to 344 people. From the station to the crime scene, in the so‐called the Kozye Hory area —NKVD recreation center — the victims were transported in a prison bus (known as „chornyi voron”, i.e. black crow). At the site the younger and stronger had military coats put over their heads and their hands were tied behind their backs with a Russian‐made hemp rope, after which they were all killed at short distance with a shot from a 7.65 mm Walther pistol, usually one to the back of the head. Some victims were pierced with a square Russian bayonet. A number of the victims were prob. murdered in the basements of the so‐called internal prison of the NKVD Regional Directorate in Smolensk, where the victims were placed in a sewer manhole, their heads were placed on the bank, and then they were shot in the back of the head. The murdered were buried in eight pits ‐ mass graves. The victims included, among others: Rear Admiral Xavier Czernicki, Generals Bronislav Bohatyrewicz, Henry Minkiewicz and Mechislav Smorawiński, the Chief Orthodox Chaplain of the Polish Army, Lieutenant Colonel Simon Fedorońko, the Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army, Major Baruch Steinberg, 9 Roman Catholic priests, one Greek Catholic and one Evangelical priest, as well as one woman — a pilot Second Lieutenant Janine Lewandowska. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23], en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21])

NKVD Tver: On 04.04‐22.05.1940 the Russians executed in NKVD HQ building at 4 Sovetskaya Str (now Tver Medical Institute) in Tver c. 6,314 Polish prisoners of war (POW) kept in KLW Ostashkov concentration camp in Ostashkov. This genocide was the implementation of the decision of the Russian Commie‐Nazi authorities — the Politburo of the Russian Commie‐Nazi party — of 05.03.1940 to exterminate tens of thousands of Polish intelligentsia and servicemen, held in Russian camps established after the German‐Russian Ribbentrop‐Molotov Agreement and the annexation of half of Poland by the Russians in 1939, known as «Katyn genocide». After the formal „verdict”, the NKVD Special Council Moscow, i.e. the genocidal Russian kangaroo court known as the «NKVD Troika», sent successive disposition letters to the NKVD in Tver — there were c. 60 of them — containing the names of the persons to be murdered. The prisoners were brought — Tver is c. 190 km from Ostashkov — to the NKVD HQ building, 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 individually 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. (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])

Gulag: The acronym Gulag comes from the Rus. Главное управление исправительно‐трудовых лагерей и колоний (Eng. Main Board of Correctional Labor Camps). The network of Russian concentration camps for slave labor was formally established by the decision of the highest Russian authorities on 27.06.1929. Control was taken over by the OGPU, the predecessor of the genocidal NKVD (from 1934) and the MGB (from 1946). Individual gulags (camps) were often established in remote, sparsely populated areas, where industrial or transport facilities important for the Russian state were built. They were modeled on the first „great construction of communism”, the White Sea‐Baltic Canal (1931‐1932), and Naftali Frenkel, of Jewish origin, is considered the creator of the system of using forced slave labor within the Gulag. He went down in history as the author of the principle „We have to squeeze everything out of the prisoner in the first three months — then nothing is there for us”. He was to be the creator, according to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, of the so‐called „Boiler system”, i.e. the dependence of food rations on working out a certain percentage of the norm. The term ZEK — prisoner — i.e. Rus. заключенный‐каналоармец (Eng. canal soldier) — was coined in the ITL BelBaltLag managed by him, and was adopted to mean a prisoner in Russian slave labor camps. Up to 12 mln prisoners were held in Gulag camps at one time, i.e. c. 5% of Russia's population. In his book „The Gulag Archipelago”, Solzhenitsyn estimated that c. 60 mln people were killed in the Gulag until 1956. Formally dissolved on 20.01.1960. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.04.08])

Lutsk: Prison run in 1939‐1941 by the Russians. After German attack in 06.1941 Russians murdered there approx. 2,000 prisoners. Again used by the Russians after 1944. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2017.03.11])

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])

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], www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28])

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[access: 2014.05.09]
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