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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

ŁUPINOWICZ

forename(s)

Charles Alexander (pl. Karol Aleksander)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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diocese / province

Mogilev archdiocesemore on
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[access: 2013.06.23]

date and place
of death

12.1937

ITL KarLagGuLAG slave labour camp network
today: n. Karaganda, Karaganda reg., Kazakhstan

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alt. dates and places
of death

1937 (after)

details of death

In the spring of 1919 during Polish–Russian war of 1919‐1920 held hostage by the Russians in Minsk.

Released in prisoner exchange.

For the first time arrested by the Russians on 20.02.1929 in Moscow.

Soon released as a result of signing a declaration of „collaboration” with authorities.

On 15‐16.02.1931 arrested again — together with c. 120 Catholics in Moscow.

Accused of „illegal contact with Polish diplomatic representatives […], running clandestine Rosary groups […], espionage for Poland […], collaboration with counter–revolutionary and anti–socialist activities of so‐called Catholic church of Eastern rite […]”.

In a process of 18.11.1931, pursuant to Art. 58‐6, 58‐10 and 58‐11 of the Penal Code, sentenced by the murderous Russian OGPU College kangaroo court to 3 years of exile.

Exiled to Kazakhstan.

In 12.1933 arrested there again and transported back to Minsk.

Again accused of „espionage”.

There on 29.03.1934 (or 29.04.1934), in a trial of a group of Catholics and laity again sentenced to 3 years of exile.

Again taken to Kazakhstan.

There once again in 06.1936 arrested.

On 09.01.1937 sentenced to 10 years of slave labour in Russian concentration camps.

Held in ITL KarLag concentration camp.

On 11.12.1937 however again tried — prob. by the Russian genocidal «NKVD Troika» kangaroo court — and sentenced to death.

Murdered in unknown circumstances.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

11.08.1937 Russian genocideClick to display the description, Great Purge 1937Click to display the description, ITL KarLagClick to display the description, GulagClick to display the description, Forced exileClick to display the description, Trial of 18.11.1931Click to display the description, Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

14.06.1891

Dokshytsytoday: Dokshytsy dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1915

positions held

1926 – 1931

vicar general — Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
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⋄ Apostolic Administration

1924 – 1931

parish priest — Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
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⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery — also ministering in Ryazan

1922 – 1923

administrator — Rechytsatoday: Rechytsa dist., Gomel reg., Belarus
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⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Mozyrz / Rzeczycadeanery names/seats
today: Gomel reg., Belarus
RC deanery

1921 – c. 1922

vicar — Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
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⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

1920 – 1921

chaplain — Zhlobintoday: Zhlobin dist., Gomel reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.08.05]
⋄ St Casimir RC chapel ⋄ Antushytoday: Pobolovo ssov., Rahachow dist., Gomel reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.06]
, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Gomeltoday: Gomel dist., Gomel reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

1919 – 1920

rector — Gomeltoday: Gomel dist., Gomel reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Gomeltoday: Gomel dist., Gomel reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

1917 – 1919

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

c. 1917

vicar — Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
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⋄ RC parish ⋄ Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
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RC deanery

c. 1914 – 1917

student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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⋄ philosophy and theology, Imperial Roman Catholic Spiritual Academy (1842‐1918)

till 1914

student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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⋄ philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary

others related
in death

CAKULClick to display biography Michael, TYSZMANClick to display biography Anne

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
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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.

ITL KarLag: Russian Rus. Исправи́тельно‐Трудово́й Ла́герь (Eng. Corrective Labor Camp) ITL Rus. Карагандинский (Eng. Karagandskiy) — concentration and slave forced labor camp (within the Gulag complex) — with headquarters in the city of Karaganda, Karaganda Oblast in Kazakhstan. Founded on 17.09.1931. One of the largest in the Gulag complex. It covered an area of 300 by 200 km, with its center in the Dolynka village, c. 45 km from Karaganda. One of the tasks was to grow food, especially animal husbandry, for the emerging centers of coal mining and heavy industry in Kazakhstan. Prisoners slaved in camp workshops (metal processing, drawing, tailoring), in the production of construction materials, in a glassworks, a sugar refinery, a vegetable drying plant, in coal mines, limestone mining, and in fishing. At its peak, c. 65,000 prisoners were held there: e.g. 45,798 (01.01.1943); 50,080 (01.01.1944); 53,946 (01.01.1945); 60,745 (01.01.1947); 63,555 (01.01.1948); 65,673 (01.01.1949); 54,179 (01.01.1950); 45,675 (01.01.1951). In total, c. 1,000,000 people passed through the camp, including many women and children. Many died. It ceased operations on 27.07.1959. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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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. He went down in history as the author of the principle „We have to squeeze everything out of the prisoner in the first three months — then nothing is there for us”. He was to be the creator, according to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, of the so‐called „Boiler system”, i.e. the dependence of food rations on working out a certain percentage of the norm. The term ZEK — prisoner — i.e. Rus. заключенный‐каналоармец (Eng. canal soldier) — was coined in the ITL BelBaltLag managed by him, and was adopted to mean a prisoner in Russian slave labor camps. Up to 12 mln prisoners were held in Gulag camps at one time, i.e. c. 5% of Russia's population. In his book „The Gulag Archipelago”, Solzhenitsyn estimated that c. 60 mln people were killed in the Gulag until 1956. Formally dissolved on 20.01.1960. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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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
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Trial of 18.11.1931: Trial against Catholic church members held in Moscow on 18.11.1931. They were accused of „Polish nationalism and religious fanaticism, illegal contacts with Polish and Lithuanian foreign missions in Russia, contacts with Polish spies and support of their activities, anti‐Russians activities, counter‐revolutionary agitation”, among others. Most were exiled, mainly to Kazakhstan.

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
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)

sources

personal:
biographies.library.nd.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
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, be.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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, ru.openlist.wikiClick to attempt to display webpage
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bibliographical:
Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‐1939. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
original images:
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