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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)

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surname

BOROWSKI

forename(s)

Vitalis (pl. Witalis)

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function

presbiter (i.e. iereus)

creed

Eastern Orthodox Church ORmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Grodno‐Novogrod OR eparchy (Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church)more on
drevo-info.ru
[access: 2020.09.24]

date and place
of death

15.07.1943

Buchwałowoalso: Boufałowo
today: district of Sokółka, Sokółka gm., Sokółka pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.29]

details of death

After the German and Russian attack on Poland in 09.1939 and the start of World War II, after the beginning of the Russian occupation, took over the parish in Lasha after his father, Michael Borowski, who in 09.1939 was murdered by a revolted communist Belarusian band.

After the German attack on 22.06.1941 on their erstwhile ally, the Russians, and the start of the German occupation, arrested by the Germans on c. 14.07.1943 during so‐called black July, German pacification action targeted at Polish partisans.

Next day murdered in a forest by Buchwałowo village — together with his wife and three daughters (the youngest was 6 months old) — in a mass murder of 21 (or 23) Poles.

The bodies were dumped into a shallow ditch.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

sites and events

Black July 1943Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

1907

Lashatoday: Indura ssov., Grodno dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.16]

alt. dates and places
of birth

1908

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

03.01.1932

positions held

till 1943

parish priest — Lashatoday: Indura ssov., Grodno dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ St Nicholas the Wonderworker OR parish ⋄ Vyalikaya Byerastavitsatoday: Vyalikaya Byerastavitsa dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.06]
OR deanery

from 1939

parish priest — Sokółkatoday: Sokółka gm., Sokółka pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.29]
⋄ St Alexander Nevsky OR church

1939

priest — Starosielcetoday: neighborhood in Białystok, Białystok city pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.04.10]
⋄ Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR parish

27.01.1939 – 1939

priest — Gudevichitoday: Gudevichi ssov., Masty dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR church — parish priest's assistant

15.11.1938 – 27.01.1939

rector — Pareččatoday: Parečča ssov., Grodno dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.01.18]
⋄ Kazan Icon of the Mother of God OR church

1935 – c. 1938

parish priest — Starosielcetoday: neighborhood in Białystok, Białystok city pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.04.10]
⋄ Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR parish

from 26.04.1934 – 1935

parish priest — Szczyty‐Dzięciołowytoday: Orla gm., Bielsk Podlaski pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
⋄ Beheading of St John the Baptist OR church — acting („ad interim”)

from 04.01.1932

priest — Skideltoday: Skidel urban ssov., Grodno dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
⋄ Intercession of the Mother of God OR church ⋄ Skideltoday: Skidel urban ssov., Grodno dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]
OR deanery — acting („ad interim”)

03.01.1932

presbiter (Eng. priest, i.e. iereus) — Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP — priesthood cheirotonia, i.e. ordination, on 27.12.1931 preceded by deacon cheirotonia

student — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Orthodox Theological Seminary

married — three daughters

others related
in death

BOROWSKIClick to display biography Michael

sites and events
descriptions

Black July 1943: On 20.05.1943 East Prussia German Gaulaiter, Erich Koch, nominated Otton Helwig a new German commander of SS und Polizeiführer (Eng. SS and police commander) of Bezirk (Eng. region) Białystok. He immediately initiated a pacification action ostensibly targeted at Polish partisans. The real aim was intimidation of the Poles from Białystok region and extermination of its leading classes. Herbert Zimmermann, security police and SD commanded, deputy commander of Einsatzgruppen SS (Eng. Operational Groups) for Germ. Bezirk (district) Bialystok, issued an order to arrest and execute 19 people, physicians, barristers, city staff and teacher, including their families, in each all county cities of the district. On 10.07.1943 a „Commando Müller” (from the surname of its murderous commander, prob. Hermann Müller), consisting of Belarus support batallion, Lithuanian units dressed in German uniforms, German Gendarmerie and police and German Gestapo members, perpetrated a series of mass murders in various places in Bezirk Białystok (including its Łomża and Grodno regions). In 07.1943 Germans murdered more than 1,000 people (prob. near 2,000). On 15.07.1943 only in all county seats of Bezirk Bialystok at least 9 local Polish intelligentsia families, including women, children and old were selected and murdered. Among the victims were many priests: in executions in Pilice forest, Wiszownik forest, Kosówka forest, Navumavichy, Jeziorka, etc. Germans murdered at least 15 clerics. (more on: www.swzygmunt.knc.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]
)

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]
)

sources

personal:
isokolka.euClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.31]
, www.przegladprawoslawny.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.11.24]

bibliographical:
Hierachy, clergy and employees of the Orthodox Church in the 19th‐21st centuries within the borders of the Second Polish Republic and post–war Poland”, Fr Gregory Sosna, M. Antonine Troc-Sosna, Warsaw–Bielsk Podlaski 2017
original images:
sokolka.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.11.24]

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