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05-507 Słomczyn
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Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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religious status

Servant of God

surname

KNYSZ

surname
versions/aliases

KNISZ

forename(s)

Stephen (pl. Szczepan)

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Stephen (pl. Stepan)

function

eparchial priest

creed

Ukrainian Greek Catholic GCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

diocese / province

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

nationality

Ukrainian

date and place
of death

23.06.1941

Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16]

alt. dates and places
of death

01.05.1944 (after)

PriVolgLag labour campGULAG slave labour camp network
today: Saratov, Saratov oblast, Russia

Alexandrovkatoday: Saratov urban reg., Saratov oblast, Russia
more on
ru.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.11.24]

Bagaevkatoday: Saratov urban reg., Saratov oblast, Russia
more on
ru.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.11.24]

details of death

After the end of World War I in 11.1918, became a soldier of the Ukrainian Galician Army UHA. During the Polish–Ukrainian War of 1918‑1919, served in Ternopil and Stanislaviv. Then, after the Ukrainian defeat of the offensive near Chortkiv on 07‑23.08.1919, withdrew beyond the Zbruch River (which later became the border river of reborn Poland). In 06.1919‑05.1920, as UHA soldier took part in the Ukrainian–Russian war. Prob. during Ukrainian offensive towards Kiev and Odessa, reached — via Proskuriv and Zhmerynka — Rozdilna near Odessa. In 05.1920, during the Polish expedition to Kiev — part of the Polish–Russian war of 1919‑1920 — disarmed by the Poles. Interned in the POW camp in Tuchola. Prob. released at the end of 1920 (by 12.1920, most of the internees from Ukraine were set free).

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 NKVD on 25.05.1940 during marriage ceremony.

On 29.03.1941 sentenced by a genocidal NKVD organisation's kangaroo court to 8 years in slave labour concentration camps Gulag.

According to some sources perished in one the Lviv prisons — during prison massacres of 06.1941, after German attack of their erstwhile ally, Russians.

alt. details of death

According to other sources transported — via a number of prisons and camps — to one of Russian concentration n. Saratov in Russia, prob. PriVolgLag.

From there — i.e. the camp's hospital in the village of Bagaevka — the last letter of 01.05.1944 was supposed to be sent. There was also supposed to perish.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

30.07.1898

Ternopiltoday: Ternopil urban hrom., Ternopil rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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alt. dates and places
of birth

Stanislavchyktoday: Brody urban hrom., Zolochiv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.22]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

08.05.1927 (Greek Catholic St George cathedral in Lvivmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2018.09.02]
)

positions held

1936 – 1941

parish priest — Nyvytsitoday: Lopatyn hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Nicholas the Wonderworker GC parish ⋄ Lopatyntoday: Lopatyn hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
GC deanery

c. 1931 – 1936

administrator — Vysotskotoday: Zabolottsi hrom., Zolochiv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.11.20]
⋄ Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Brodytoday: Brody urban hrom., Zolochiv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.11.20]
GC deanery

1927 – c. 1931

administrator — Stanislavchyktoday: Brody urban hrom., Zolochiv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.22]
⋄ St Matthew the Apostle GC parish ⋄ Lopatyntoday: Lopatyn hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16]
GC deanery

1921 – 1925

student — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Greek Catholic Theological Seminary

c. 1919 – c. 1920

soldier — Ukrainian Galician Army UHA

others related
in death

BAŁUTClick to display biography Anthony (Fr Roman), BANSZELClick to display biography Charles, BUCZYŃSKIClick to display biography Joseph, CZEMERYŃSKIClick to display biography Yaroslav Anthony, KAŹNICAClick to display biography Monica, KONOPKAClick to display biography Casimir Stanislav, KOWALIKClick to display biography Zeno, MARCHIEWICZClick to display biography Francis (Fr Michael), PISKOZUBClick to display biography Julia, OSIDACZClick to display biography Roman, ZAWOROTIUKClick to display biography Michael, KOWERKOClick to display biography Maximilian, STOKŁOSAClick to display biography Joseph

murder sites
camp 
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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. Up to 12 mln prisoners were held there at one time, i.e. c. 5% of Russia's population. In his book „The Gulag Archipelago”, Alexander Solzhenitsyn estimated that c. 60 mln people were killed in the Gulag until 1956. Formally dissolved on 20.01.1960. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]
, en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]
)

Lviv (Zamarstiniv): Penal prison no 2 in Lviv. In 1939‑1941 Russians organised there an NKVD detention centre and jailed thousands of prisoners, mainly Poles and Ukrainians, interrogating them and torturing. In 06.1941 after German invasion Russians murdered few thousands of them in a mass massacre. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30]
)

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

Polish-Russian war of 1919—1921: 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
[access: 2014.12.20]
)

Polish-Ukrainian war of 1918—1919: One of the wars for borders of the newly reborn Poland. At the end of 1918 on the former Austro–Hungarian empire’s territory, based on the Ukrainian military units of the former Austro–Hungarian army, Ukrainians waged war against Poland. In particular attempted to create foundation of an independent state and attacked Lviv. Thanks to heroic stance of Lviv inhabitants, in particular young generation of Poles — called since then Lviv eaglets — the city was recaptured by Poles and for a number of months successfully defended against furious Ukrainian attacks. In 1919 Poland — its newly created army — pushed Ukrainian forces far to the east and south, regaining control over its territory. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2017.05.20]
)

sources

personal:
newsaints.faithweb.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.03.21]
, missiopc.blogspot.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21]
, www.reabit.org.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.12.26]
, magazine.lds.lviv.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.03.21]

original images:
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[access: 2014.03.21]

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