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05-507 Słomczyn
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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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religious status

Servant of God

surname

HRYCHAJ

surname
versions/aliases

HRYCAJ

forename(s)

Joseph (pl. Józef)

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Joseph (pl. Josif)

function

eparchial priest

creed

Ukrainian Greek Catholic GCmore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]

diocese / province

Lviv GC archeparchymore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

nationality

Ukrainian

date and place
of death

28.06.1941

Ternopiltoday: Ternopil urban hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.20]

alt. dates and places
of death

25.06.1941

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of Russian occupation, arrested by Russian genocidal NKVD on 27.09.1940.

Jailed in Ternopil prison.

Accused of „spreading of anti–Russian propaganda”.

On 17.03.1941 sentenced to death commuted to 10 years in Russian slave labour concentration camps Gulag.

After German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, murdered however by the Russians in prison — crucified on his prison cell's door.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

Prison massacres — Ternopil 06.1941Click to display the description, 06.1941 massacres (NKVD)Click to display the description, GulagClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

1883

Kydantsitoday: Zbarazh urban hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1907

positions held

1927 – 1940

parish priest — Chernykhivtoday: Ternopil urban hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Ternopiltoday: Ternopil urban hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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GC deanery

1928 – 1936

dean — Ternopiltoday: Ternopil urban hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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GC deanery

1918 – 1927

vicar — Kolodiivkatoday: Skalat urban hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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⋄ St Demetrius GC parish ⋄ Skalattoday: Skalat urban hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.15]
GC deanery

vicar — Rudnetoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.08.05]
⋄ Exaltation of the Holy Cross GC parish ⋄ Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16]
GC deanery

1911 – 1914

vicar — Zadniszówkatoday: part of Pidvolochysk, Pidvolochysk hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Skalattoday: Skalat urban hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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GC deanery

1910 – 1911

administrator — Staromishchynatoday: Pidvolochysk hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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⋄ St Nicholas GC parish ⋄ Skalattoday: Skalat urban hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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GC deanery

1907 – 1910

vicar — Kamyankytoday: Pidvolochysk hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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⋄ St Michael the Archangel GC parish ⋄ Skalattoday: Skalat urban hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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GC deanery

1903 – 1907

student — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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⋄ Department of Theology, John Casimir University [i.e. clandestine John Casimir University (1941‐1944) / Ivan Franko University (1940‐1941) / John Casimir University (1919‐1939) / Franciscan University (1817‐1918)]

1903 – 1907

student — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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⋄ philosophy and theology, Greek Catholic Theological Seminary

married — three children

others related
in death

KASZUBAClick to display biography Marian, KOSOWICZClick to display biography Nicholas, PASTUCHClick to display biography Peter, CZUBATYClick to display biography Theodore

sites and events
descriptions

Prison massacres — Ternopil 06.1941: After German attack of Russians on 22.06.1941 Russians murdered prisoners held in Ternopil prison in Ukraine. Prison held more than 1,790 inmates (on the day of German attack; earlier on 10.06.1941 — 1,592; later, after German attack, many others from nearby villages were brought in and Russians did not even manage to register them). Right after German attack c. 217 prisoners (convicted mainly for common crimes) were released. On c. 30.06.1941 c. 1,000‐1,200 people were marched out of town towards east. Those that could not follow were murdered. There rest were finally loaded onto a train and sent to Ural. Their fate remains unknown. Those that remained back in Ternopil were murdered by the Russians in prison itself. It is estimated that Russians managed to murder from few hundred to 1,000 prisoners, mainly Ukrainians, but also Poles and a dozen or so captured Germans. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.12.26]
)

06.1941 massacres (NKVD): After German attack of Russian‐occupied Polish territory and following that of Russia itself, before a panic escape, Russians murdered — in accordance with the genocidal order issued on 24.06.1941 by the Russian interior minister Lawrence Beria to murder all prisoners (formally „sentenced” for „counter‐revolutionary activities”, „anti‐Russian acts”, sabotage and diversion, and political prisoners „in custody”), held in NKVD‐run prisons in Russian occupied Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — c. 40,000‐50,000 prisoners. In addition Russians murdered many thousands of victims arrested after German attack regarding them as „enemies of people” — those victims were not even entered into prisons’ registers. Most of them were murdered in massacres in the prisons themselves, the others during so‐called „death marches” when the prisoners were driven out east. After Russians departure and start of German occupation a number of spontaneous pogroms of Jews took place. Many Jews collaborated with Russians and were regarded as co‐responsible for prison massacres. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
)

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]
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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
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, magazine.lds.lviv.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
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