function

nun

creed

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

congregation

Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus RSCJmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]
(i.e. Sacré Coeur Sisters)

alt. dates and places
of death

(Kazakhstan territory)today: Kazakhstan
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.07.16]

details of death

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

KazakhstanClick to display the description, Forced exileClick to display the description, Trial of 19.06.1932Click to display the description, Moscow (Butyrki)Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

1886

Šakeliškėtoday: Tverečius eld., Ignalina dist., Utena Cou., Lithuania
more on
lt.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]

positions held

others related
in death

GOŁUBIEWAClick to display biography Magdalene, ŁAŻEWNIKClick to display biography Thecla

sites and events
descriptions

Kazakhstan: In 1930‐1939 Russians exiled to Kazakhstan thousands of Poles who after Polish‐Russian war in 1920 stayed behind Polish border. In 1939‐1940, also later, Russians deported to Kazakhstan (into, among others, Aktiabińsk region) tens of thousands of Poles who slaved virtuallly on „naked” soil. (more on: www.zegocina.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10])

Forced exile: One of the standard Russian forms of repression. The prisoners were usually taken to a small village in the middle of nowhere — somewhere in Siberia, in far north or far east — dropped out of the train carriage or a cart, left out without means of subsistence or place to live. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20])

Trial of 19.06.1932: Trial conducted on 19.06.1932 in Moscow before the cangaroo court — known as Council — of the murderous Russian political police OGPU (predecessor of the NKVD). Defendants: Fr Augustine Proncketis and the nuns cooperating with him, associated with the St Catherine church in Sankt Petersburg, where Fr Proncketis administered, were accused of „maintaining contacts with French and Vatican representatives, accepting counter‐revolutionary literature, passing espionage information, conducting anti‐Russian agitation”. Fr Proncketis was sentenced to death (the sentence was not carried out and he returned to Lithuania the following year), while the nuns were sent into exile and their further fate is mostly unknown.

Moscow (Butyrki): Harsh transit and interrogation prison in Moscow — for political prisoners — where Russians held and murdered thousands of Poles. Founded prob. in XVII century. In XIX century many Polish insurgents (Polish uprisings of 1831 and 1863) were held there. During Communist regime a place of internment for political prisoners prior to a transfer to Russian slave labour complex Gulag. During the Great Purge c. 20,000 inmates were held there at any time (c. 170 in every cell). Thousands were murdered. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.05.01])

sources

personal:
biographies.library.nd.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]