Roman Catholic
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)
personal data
surname
BLECHMAN
forename(s)
Boleslaus (pl. Bolesław)
function
diocesan priest
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Zhytomyr diocesemore on
www.catholic-hierarchy.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
date and place of death
26.01.1938
Vladikavkaztoday: North Ossetia–Alania rep., Russia
alt. dates and places of death
02.11.1937 (after)
details of death
From 1905, during Tsarist times, member of clandestine Polish society „Macierz Polska” and teacher at clandestine Polish schools.
In 1927‑33 apprehended by Russians many times.
Finally arrested by them — on the basis of denouncement that managed to prepare clandestinely 5 men to Catholic priesthood, including Fr Joseph Kowalski and Fr Andrew Rybałtowski — on 29.08.1933 on the way from Krymok chapel back to Kiev.
On the same day Fr Joseph Woronicz was arrested.
Jailed in Kharkiv.
On 07.12.1933 transferred to Kiev prison.
Accused of „nationalist agitation among Polish population in Ukraine and leading preparations for military campaign against Russian authorities”, of passing information about famine in Ukraine (Great Holodomor) to Polish and Vatican officials.
There on 24.02.1934 tried, together with Fr Woronicz, among others, and sentenced to 3 years of slave labour.
On 18.06.1934 transported to KarLag concentration camp, to Dolinskoye village camp.
On 29.05.1936 released, but on 19.06.1936 exiled to Vladikavkaz.
There on 02.12.1936 arrested again, together with two other priests, Fr John Roth (Volga German) and Fr Anthony Czerwiński, and 6 parishioners.
On 17.08.1937 accused of „membership of counter–revolutionay group and spreading of slanderous rumors about the hardship of the peasantry”.
On 02.11.1937 sentenced to 10 years of slave labour.
Fate thereafter unknown — certainly executed, prob. in Vladikavkaz (the date shown is the date of aforementioned Fr Anthony Czerwiński's execution).
alt. details of death
Murdered during „Great Purge” in Russia.
cause of death
murder
perpetrators
Russians
date and place of birth
1876
Kalvarijatoday: Marijampolė dist., Marijampolė Cou., Lithuania
presbyter (holy orders)/
ordination
1903
positions held
apostolic administrator {dioc.: Zhytomyr}
1930 – 1933
administrator {parish: Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine, St Alexander the Pope and Martyr; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine}
1927 – 1930
vicar {parish: Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine, St Alexander the Pope and Martyr; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine}
administrator {parish: Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine, St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine}
administrator {parish: Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine, Sacred Heart of Jesus; Greek Catholic}
1923 – 1927
dean {dean.: Radomyshl'today: Radomyshl' rai., Zhytomyr obl., Ukraine
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1923 – 1927
curatus/rector/expositus {parish: Vyshevychitoday: Radomyshl' rai., Zhytomyr obl., Ukraine, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary; church: Radomyshl'today: Radomyshl' rai., Zhytomyr obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.08.20; chapel: Krymoktoday: Radomyshl' rai., Zhytomyr obl., Ukraine, St Anthony of Padua; dean.: Radomyshl'today: Radomyshl' rai., Zhytomyr obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.08.20}, based at the chapel in Crimea
1923 – 1927
administrator {parish: Vyshevychitoday: Radomyshl' rai., Zhytomyr obl., Ukraine, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Radomyshl'today: Radomyshl' rai., Zhytomyr obl., Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.08.20}
priest {parish: Vyshnivetstoday: Zbarazh rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17, St Stanislaus; dean.: Kremenetstoday: Kremenets rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2020.10.18}, prob.
1920 – 1923
parish priest {parish: Byshivtoday: Makariv rai., Kiev obl., Ukraine, Our Lady of the Rosary; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine}
1918 – 1920
priest {Irpintoday: Irpin city rai., Kiev obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine}
c. 1918
parish priest {parish: Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine, St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine}
1916 – 1917
vicar {parish: Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine, St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine}
1916 – 1917
chaplain {Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine, Imperial Russian Army}
1916 – 1917
military dean {Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine, Imperial Russian Army}
1916 – 1917
prefect {Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine, 4th gymnasium}
1916 – 1917
prefect {Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine, VIII gymnasium}
1916 – 1917
prefect {Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine, Vaclava Peretiakowiczowa's gymnasium for Women}
1914 – 1915
administrator {parish: Motovilyvkatoday: Velyka Motovylivka, Fastiv rai., Kiev obl., Ukraine, St Anne; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city obl., Ukraine}
1909 – 1914
prefect {Lutsktoday: Lutsk rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17, secondary schools}
1906 – 1909
administrator {parish: Volodymyr–Volynskyitoday: Volodymyr–Volynskyi rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17, St Joachim and St Anne; dean.: Volodymyr–Volynskyitoday: Volodymyr–Volynskyi rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17; parish}
1904 – 1905
vicar {parish: Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17, cathedral St Sophie}
1903 – 1904
student {Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia, philosophy and theology, Imperial Roman Catholic Spiritual Academy (1842‑1918)}
1899 – 1903
student {Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr obl., Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17, philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary}
others related in death
GRZEGORZEWSKIClick to display biography Stanislaus, KOWALSKIClick to display biography Joseph, LUBOWSKIClick to display biography Bronislaus, MARECKIClick to display biography Bruno, MARKUSZEWClick to display biography, RYBAŁTOWSKIClick to display biography Andrew, WORONICZClick to display biography Joseph, CZERWIŃSKIClick to display biography Anthony
murder sites
camps (+ prisoner no)
11.08.1937 Russian genocide: On 11.08.1937 Russian leader Stalin decided and NKWD head, Nicholas Jeżow, signed a „Polish operation” executive order no 00485. 139,835 Poles living in Russia were thus sentenced summarily to death. 111,091 were murdered. 28,744 were sentenced to deportation to concentration camps in Gulag. Altogether however more than 100,000 Poles were deported, mainly to Kazakhstan, Siberia, Kharkov and Dniepropetrovsk. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2016.03.14)
Great Purge 1937: In the summer of 1937 Polish Catholic priests held in Solovetsky Islands, Anzer Island and BelBaltLag were locked in prison cells (some in Sankt Petersburg). Next in a few kangaroo, murderous Russian trials (on 09.10.1937, 25.11.1937, among others) run by so‑called „Troika NKVD” all were sentenced to death. They were subsequently executed by a single shot to the back of the head. The murders took place either in Sankt Petersburg prison or directly in places of mass murder, e.g. Sandarmokh or Levashov Wilderness, where their bodies were dumped into the ditches. Other priests were arrested in the places they still ministered in and next murdered in local NKVD headquarters (e.g. in Minsk in Belarus), after equally genocidal trials run by aforementioned „Troika NKVD” kangaroo courts.
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 webpageaccess: 2014.12.20)
KarLag: Russian concentration camp and forced labour camp n. Karaganda in Kazakhstan. One of the largest in Gulag penal system, operational in 1930‑59 (though even later parts of the camp were used as a new concentration camp and prison). Stretched over 300 by 200 km, centered in Dolinka village, c. 45 km from Karaganda. One of the goals was creation a large food base for the developing coal and metallurgical industries of Kazakhstan. 10,000 to 65,000 (in 1949) prisoners — including women and children many of whom perished — were held in the camp at any one time. In total over 1,000,000 inmates slaved in KarLag over its history. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2019.10.13)
Kiev (Lyukyanivska): Russian political prison in Kiev run by criminal NKVD. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2014.09.21)
Kharkiv (prison): Russian criminal prison where in the 1930s a number of Catholic priests were held prior to being sent to Russian concentration camps.
sources
personal:
przegladpolskopolonijny.files.wordpress.comClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2014.12.20, archive.todayClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2014.05.09, biographies.library.nd.eduClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2019.02.02, slowopolskie.orgClick to attempt to display webpageaccess: 2019.02.02
bibliograhical:, „Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‑39. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
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