function

eparchial priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Przemyśl GC eparchymore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

nationality

Ukrainian

date and place
of death

20.07.1953

Sztumtoday: Sztum gm., Sztum pov., Pomerania voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]

details of death

prisoner camp's numbers

2518 (JaworznoClick to display the description)

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Russians / Poles

sites and events

SztumClick to display the description, Cracow (Montelupich)Click to display the description, JaworznoClick to display the description, Operation „Vistula”Click to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

29.03.1886

Ulychnotoday: Truskavets urban hrom., Drohobych rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]

alt. dates and places
of birth

23.03.1886

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

05.12.1915 (Greek Catholic Przemyśl cathedral)

positions held

sites and events
descriptions

Sztum: Prison in Sztum was built in 1910‐1914, during the Prussian (German) partition of Poland. Initially, it had 450 cells that formed the letter 'T'. In the mid‐1930s — after World War I and the establishment of the Polish state, Sztum remained in Germany, in the West Prussian regency — another wing was added for 300 more prisoners, and the facility took the form of a cross. In 1939, just before the start of World War II, arrests of Polish activists began. Many passed through the Sztum prison before being sent to German concentration camps. During the war, the prison functioned normally. On 20.01.1945, in the face of the Russian offensive, the Germans began to evacuate the city and emptied the prison. After start of the Russian occupation, the Commie‐Nazis held in prison, among others Germans, soldiers of the Polish resistance Home Army AK — until 1953 the prison was overcrowded: 501 cells held up to 6,000 prisoners. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.28])

Cracow (Montelupich): Cracow penal prison, during occupation run by the Germans — from 28.02.1941 by Germ. Geheime Staatspolizei (Eng. Secret State Police, known as Gestapo. In 1940‐1944 Germans jailed there approx. 50,000 prisoners, mainly Poles and Jews. Some of them were transported to KL Auschwitz concentration camp, some were executed. After cease in war effort the prison was used by UB — a Polish unit of Russian NKVD — as a prison for Polish independence resistance fighters, some of which were subsequently sent to prisons and slave labour camps in Russia. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31])

Jaworzno: During World War II Jaworzno was a subcamp of KL Auschwitz concentration camp. After cessation of hostilities was a concentration camp organised by Russian controlled Polish security ministry. Prisoners included Germans and enemies of the commi‐nazi system, among them members of the Polsih resistance army AK and individuals suspected of membership in genocidal Ukrainian nationalist organisations UPA and OUN (rounded up during „action Vistula” ). (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21], en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21])

Operation „Vistula”: Pacification action, ordered on 29.03.1947 and organized in 1947‐1950 by Polish Commie‐Nazi state prl — a follow‐on of a forceful deportation in 1944‐1946 of a part of Ukrainian population to the east, to the territories directly occupied by Russians — aimed at part of Ukrainian OUN/UPA organization, active on the territories controlled by prl, responsible for so‐called „Volyn genocide”. During the operation Polish units, supported by Russian army and Czechoslovakia (it locked down the border with Poland thus closing down possible escape routes), carried out a mass deportation of whole village and hamlets from south‐east prl — Ukrainians and local ethnic groups of Boykos, Dolinyans and Lemkos, as well as mixed Polish‐Ukrainian families — to Szczecin and Olsztyn voivodeships in northern and north‐western prl. Altogether c. 140,000 civilians were deported, resulting in destroying a number of OUN/UPA units c. 1,500 fighters strong, and arrested and interned c. 2,900 alleged members of OUN/UPA (among others in Jaworzno concentration camp). (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.12.26])

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])

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])

sources

personal:
www.zup.ukraina.com.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.28], www.cerkiew.netClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21]
bibliographical:
„Clergy of Przemyśl Eparchy and Apostolic Exarchate of Lemkivshchyna”, Bogdan Prach, Ukrainian Catholic University Publishing House, Lviv 2015