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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)

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surname

GASZYŃSKI

forename(s)

Leonard

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Mogilev archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.06.23]

honorary titles

Order of Saint Stanislav (Russian Empire) 3rd classmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.10.13]

date and place
of death

12.10.1937

Kharkivtoday: Kharkiv urban hrom., Kharkiv rai., Kharkiv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.05]

details of death

For the first time arrested by the Russias on 03.01.1921, during the great repatriations of Poles from Bolshevik Russia to Poland as a result of the Russian defeat in the Polish–Russian war of 1919‐1921 — in the final months of peace negotiations, that ended on 18.03.1921 with a peace treaty signed in Riga. Accused of „meeting with Polish delegation with espinage intent”. On 03.02.1921 however released.

After starting ministry in Kharkiv, constantly followed by the Russian authorities and several times evicted from his apartment. Finally, settled at the Emergency Medical Services Institute.

Arrested again on 12.08.1937 in Kharkiv — together with his sister, cleaner woman in the church and entire parish council (c. 20 people) — on the basis of order No. 90485 of 11.08.1937 of the Kharkiv branch of the genocidal Russian NKVD organization, and charged with „active participation in the counter–revolutionary organization, operating at the Kharkiv church, and espionage for Polish intelligence”. Held in Kharkiv prison.

On 24.09.1937 sentenced by Russian genocidal kangaroo «NKVD Troika» court to death.

Murdered in prison, together with 11 parishioners, including at least 9 women.

At that time, was the last Catholic priest in Kharkiv. After his murder, the Russians shut down the temple, robbed its contents and liquidated the parish. 50 people then, mostly prob. Poles, signed a petition to create a new Catholic parish. Prob. all were soon arrested and murdered.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

11.08.1937 Russian genocideClick to display the description, Great Purge 1937Click to display the description, Kharkiv (prison)Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

1867

Chotajewiczetoday: Oktyabr, Oktyabr ssov., Lahoysk dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2023.01.18]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1893

positions held

1927 – 1937

vicar general — (Kharkiv Oblast)today: Kharkiv, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.07.31]
— appointment „held in secret

1927 – 1937

parish priest — Kharkivtoday: Kharkiv urban hrom., Kharkiv rai., Kharkiv, Ukraine
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⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Kharkivtoday: Kharkiv urban hrom., Kharkiv rai., Kharkiv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.08.05]
RC deanery

c. 1922 – 1927

administrator — Lugatoday: Luga urban, Luga reg., Leningrad oblast, Russia
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[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

1919 – 1921

administrator — Mogilevtoday: Mogilev dist., Mogilev reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ St Casimir RC parish ⋄ Mohylew / Horkideanery names/seats
today: Mogilev reg., Belarus
RC deanery

1902 – 1919

administrator — Kronstadttoday: part of Sankt Petersburg, Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery — also: Catholic chaplain of the Navy and the land forces of the Russian Empire (mainly among Poles), prefect at the Maritime Engineering School, Maritime Surgeons School, real–school and gymnasiums for boys and girls

1899 – 1902

administrator — Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ St Rock RC church (on „Golden Hill”)Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
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[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery — also: prefect of gymnasiums for boys and girls, real–school and elementary schools; 1897‐1900 chaplain of the Roman Catholic Charitable Society

1893 – 1899

chaplain — to Archbishop Simon Martin Kozłowski, Metropolitan of Mogilev

1888 – 1893

student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary

sites and events
descriptions

11.08.1937 Russian genocide: On 11.08.1937 Russian leader Stalin decided and NKVD head, Nicholas Jeżow, signed a «Polish operation» executive order no 00485. 139,835 Poles living in Russia were thus sentenced summarily to death. According to the records of the „Memorial” International Association for Historical, Educational, Charitable and Defense of Human Rights (Rus. Международное историко‐просветительское, правозащитное и благотворительное общество „Мемориал”), specialising with historical research and promoting knowledge about the victims of Russian repressions — 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. According to some historians, the number of victims should be multiplied by at least two, because not only the named persons were murdered, but entire Polish families (the mere suspicion of Polish nationality was sufficient). Taking into account the fact that the given number does not include the genocide in eastern Russia (Siberia), the number of victims may be as high as 500,000 Poles. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14]
)

Great Purge 1937: „Great Terror” (also «Great Purge», also called „Yezhovshchyna” after the name of the then head of the NKVD) — a Russian state action of political terror, planned and directed against millions of innocent victims — national minorities, wealthier peasants (kulaks), people considered opponents political, army officers, the greatest intensity of which took place from 09.1936 to 08.1938. It reached its peak starting in the summer of 1937, when Art. 58‐14 of the Penal Code about „counter‐revolutionary sabotage” was passed , which became the basis for the „legalization” of murders, and on 02.07.1937 when the highest authorities of Russia, under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, issued a decree on the initiation of action against the kulaks. Next a number of executive orders of the NKVD followed, including No. 00439 of 25.07.1937, starting the liquidation of 25,000‐42,000 Germans living in Russia (mainly the so‐called Volga Germans); No. 00447 of 30.07.1937, beginning the liquidation of „anti‐Russian elements”, and No. 00485[2] of 11.08.1937, ordering the murder of 139,835 people of Polish nationality (the latter was the largest operation of this type — encompassed 12.5% of all those murdered during the «Great Purge», while Poles constituted 0.4% of the population). In the summer of 1937 Polish Catholic priests held in Solovetsky Islands, Anzer Island and ITL 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 «NKVD Troika» 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 «NKVD Troika» kangaroo courts.

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:
biographies.library.nd.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
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, www.radzima.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
, rkc.kh.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
, czasopisma.upjp2.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.09.10]
, ru.openlist.wikiClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02]

bibliographical:
Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‐1939. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
original images:
ipn.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02]

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