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

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surname

PIOTROWSKI

forename(s)

Leo (pl. Leon)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Lutsk-Zhytomyr diocese (aeque principaliter)more on
www.catholic-hierarchy.org
[access: 2021.12.19]

Tiraspol diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]

date and place
of death

01.11.1937

ITL SibLagGULAG slave labour camp network
today: Mariinsk, Kemerovo oblast, Russia

more on
ru.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.01.29]

details of death

Arrested in 1921 in Kirovohrad by the Russians.

Released after few days.

In 1924 arrested again — accused of squandering of church property.

Again soon released.

Prob. once more arrested for a few weeks — accused of participation in political conspiracy but again released.

On 09.04.1932 arrested by the Russians for the third (fourth?) time in Narodichi village.

Transferred to Kharkiv prison.

On 21.04.1932 transported to Kiev prison.

Accused of visiting Polish consulate in Kiev, informing about the state of Catholic church in Ukraine, about „one of the important in state of war bridges on Kiev–Sarny railway line”.

Did not admit any guilt.

On 11.07.1932 sentenced by a criminal Russian OGPU Council kangaroo court to 5 years of slave labour.

Transported to Butyrki prison in Moscow.

On 08.10.1932 another criminal Russian OGPU Council kangaroo court had sentence extended to 10 years of slave labour.

On 03.11.1932 taken to Marinskoye camp in ITL SibLag concentration camps administration.

There in 1937 arrested for the last time.

On 13.09.1937 tried again by the genocidal Special Council NKVD kangaroo court (known as «NKVD Troika») and sentenced to death.

The sentenced was confirmed in Moscow on 14.10.1937.

Murdered in the camp.

alt. details of death

According to some sources prior to being sent to SibLag concentration camp was held in TemLag camp, n. Potma in Mordova rep.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

1878

Moshurivtoday: Talne urban hrom., Zvenyhorodka rai., Cherkasy, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1909

positions held

till 1932

priest — Narodychitoday: Narodychi hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ St Tekla the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Ovruchtoday: Ovruch urban hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

c. 1932

priest — Chernobyltoday: (exclusion zone) hrom., Vyshhorod rai., Kiev, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Radomyshltoday: Radomyshl urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
RC deanery

c. 1932

priest — Rozvazhivtoday: Ivankiv hrom., Vyshhorod rai., Kiev, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St John of Nepomuk the Martyr RC parish ⋄ Radomyshltoday: Radomyshl urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
RC deanery

c. 1932

priest — Borodiankatoday: Borodianka hrom., Bucha rai., Kiev, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ RC chapel ⋄ Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
RC deanery

c. 1932

priest — Khabnetoday: Poliske, Vyshhorod urban hrom., Vyshhorod rai., Kiev, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Radomyshltoday: Radomyshl urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
RC deanery

c. 1924 – c. 1930

priest — Brusylivtoday: Brusyliv hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Holy Spirit RC parish ⋄ Radomyshltoday: Radomyshl urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
RC deanery

c. 1924 – c. 1930

priest — Irpintoday: Irpin urban hrom., Buchach rai., Kiev, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
RC deanery

c. 1925

administrator — Lysiankatoday: Lysianka hrom., Zvenyhorodka rai., Cherkasy, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Joseph the Spouse RC parish ⋄ Zvenyhorodkatoday: Zvenyhorodka urban hrom., Zvenyhorodka rai., Cherkasy, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
RC deanery — resident in Yelisavetgrad

c. 1925

administrator — Zvenyhorodkatoday: Zvenyhorodka urban hrom., Zvenyhorodka rai., Cherkasy, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
⋄ Divine Providence RC parish ⋄ Zvenyhorodkatoday: Zvenyhorodka urban hrom., Zvenyhorodka rai., Cherkasy, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
RC deanery — resident in Yelisavetgrad

c. 1925

administrator — Smilatoday: Smila urban hrom., Cherkasy rai., Cherkasy, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Zvenyhorodkatoday: Zvenyhorodka urban hrom., Zvenyhorodka rai., Cherkasy, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
RC deanery — resident in Yelisavetgrad

1924 – 1925

administrator — Zlatopiltoday: district of Novomyrhorod, Novomyrhorod hrom., Novoukrainka rai., Kirovohrad, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Zvenyhorodkatoday: Zvenyhorodka urban hrom., Zvenyhorodka rai., Cherkasy, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
RC deanery

c. 1919 – c. 1924

administrator — Yelisavetgradtoday: Kropyvnytskyi, Kropyvnytskyi city rai., Kirovohrad, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ RC parish ⋄ RC parish

c. 1915 – c. 1918

administrator — Skirchetoday: Skirche hrom., Lutsk rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.05]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Lutsktoday: Lutsk city rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

c. 1914 – c. 1915

vicar — Ushomyrtoday: Ushomyr hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Ovruchtoday: Ovruch urban hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

c. 1913

vicar — Murafaalso: Morakhva
today: Murafa hrom., Zhmerynka rai., Vinnytsia, Ukraine

more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Yampiltoday: Yampil urban hrom., Mohyliv–Podilskyi rai., Vinnytsia, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

c. 1912

administrator — Kryvyntoday: Staryi Kryvyn, Slavuta urban hrom., Shepetivka rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Anthony of Padua RC parish ⋄ Zaslavtoday: Iziaslav urban hrom., Shepetivka rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery — acting („ad interim”)

c. 1911

curatus/rector/expositus — Mizochtoday: Mizoch hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.05]
⋄ St John of Nepomuk the Martyr RC church ⋄ Ostrohtoday: Ostroh urban hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Iziaslav–Ostrohdeanery name
today: Ukraine
RC deanery

1910

vicar — Felsztyntoday: Hvardiiske, Hvardiiske hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Adalbert the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Proskurivtoday: Khmelnytskyi, Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi urban hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

till 1909

student — Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

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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 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 SibLag: Russian Rus. Исправи́тельно–Трудово́й Ла́герь (Eng. Corrective Labor Camp) ITL — concentration and slave forced labor camp (within the Gulag complex) — headquartered in Mariinsk in Kemerovo oblast, where a central camp for invalids was also operational (moved twice to Novosibirsk, c. 350 km away). Founded in 1929. One the largest — initially spread over large area from Omsk to Krasnoiarsk, as matter of fact whole Western Siberian Plain, next subdivided and limited to Novosibirsk, Tomsk and Kemerovo oblasts. Up to 80,000 inmates were held in SibLag: e.g. 78,838 (01.01.1938); 77,919 (01.01.1942); 70,370 (01.04.1942). Prisoners slaved at railroad construction, forestry, carpentry and in coal mines, and other industrial branches (brick, clothing, leather and fur factories and plants). Closed down in c. 1960. (more on: tspace.library.utoronto.caClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.09.02]
, www.gulagmuseum.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]
)

TemLag: Russian slave labor concentration camp, i.e. TemLag camp (part of the Gulag complex system), established on 06.06.1931 in the forests of the republic of Mordovia, with HQ in the village of Yavas. The maximum single number of prisoners in the camp was 30,978 (01.01.1933) — in 1943, among 14,896 prisoners, there were 6,204 women. Prisoners slaved in felling forests, processing wood and building railroads, e.g. Ryazan–Potma line, as well as many other auxiliary plants (workshops, road maintenance, production of clothes and shoes — including for the Russian army, some ammunition, etc.). It existed until 12.10.1948, when it was transformed into a special camp No. 3, divided — along with prisoners — between the Temnykovsky plant and the DubravLag camp. (more on: www.gulagmuseum.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.22]
)

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. Up to 12 mln prisoners were held there at one time, i.e. c. 5% of Russia's population. In his book „The Gulag Archipelago”, Alexander Solzhenitsyn estimated that c. 60 mln people were killed in the Gulag until 1956. Formally dissolved on 20.01.1960. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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[access: 2014.05.09]
)

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]
)

Kiev (Lyukyanivska): Russian political prison in Kiev, in the first half of 20th century run by the genocidal NKVD, informally referred to as prison No 1, formally as Investigative Prison No 13 (SIZO#13). It was founded in the early 19th century. In the 20th century, during the Soviet times, the prison church was transformed into another block of cells. During the reign of J. Stalin in Russia, more than 25,000 prisoners passed through it. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 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.

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bibliographical:
Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‑1939. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
Parish priest of Lutsk–Żhytomyr 1801‑1920 and Kamyanets–Podilskyi 1869‑1919 dioceses”, Fr Waldemar Witold Żurek SDB, Lublin 2023
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