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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

SAWICKI

forename(s)

Alexander (pl. Aleksander)

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]

date and place
of death

1937

alt. dates and places
of death

1937 (after)

details of death

After eviction from Monasterzyska parish in 1924 ministered in other Zhytomyr diocese parishes.

Arrested by the Russians on 01.02.1930.

C. 12.05.1930 sentenced to 10 years of slave labour.

In 09.1930 transported to Yaroslav on Volga prison where held in a group of 30 Catholic priests.

In 01.1934 taken to ITL SLON Solovetsky Islands concentration camp.

Was there still at the beginning of 1937.

Fate thereafter unknown.

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

11.08.1937 Russian genocideClick to display the description, Great Purge 1937Click to display the description, ITL SLONClick to display the description, GulagClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

1881

Ashmyanytoday: Ashmyany dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1907

positions held

c. 1923 – c. 1925

administrator — Monastyryskatoday: Monastyryshche, Monastyryshche urban hrom., Uman rai., Cherkasy, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ St Dennis the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Umantoday: Uman urban hrom., Uman rai., Cherkasy, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

1923 – 1924

administrator — Pyatyhorytoday: Tetiiv hrom., Bila Tserkva rai., Kiev, Ukraine
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uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Vincent Ferrer RC parish ⋄ Umantoday: Uman urban hrom., Uman rai., Cherkasy, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

from c. 1921

vicar — Monastyryskatoday: Monastyryshche, Monastyryshche urban hrom., Uman rai., Cherkasy, Ukraine
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⋄ St Dennis the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Umantoday: Uman urban hrom., Uman rai., Cherkasy, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

c. 1913 – c. 1919

parish priest — Dubrovytsiatoday: Dubrovytsia urban hrom., Sarny rai., Rivne, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Lutsktoday: Lutsk city rai., Volyn, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

c. 1911 – c. 1913

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

c. 1910 – c. 1911

administrator — Klevantoday: Klevan hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne, Ukraine
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⋄ Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Rivnetoday: Rivne urban hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne, Ukraine
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RC deanery

till c. 1910

vicar — Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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⋄ St Alexander the Pope and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]
RC deanery

till 1907

student — Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ philosophy and theology, 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]
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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 SLON: Russian Rus. Исправи́тельно‐Трудово́й Ла́герь (Eng. Corrective Labor Camp) ITL Rus. Солове́цкий ла́герь осо́бого назначе́ния Ла́герь (Eng. Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp) SLON — concentration and slave forced labor camp (within what was to become Gulag complex) — headquartered in Solovetsky Islands in Arkhangelsk Oblast. Founded on 13.10.1923 in a famous Orthodox monastery. In the 1920s, one of the first and largest concentration camps in Russia. The place of slave labor of prisoners — at forest felling, sawmills, peat extraction, fishing, loading work on the Murmansk Railway Main Line, in road construction, production of food and consumer goods, at the beginning of the construction of the White Sea ‐ Baltic canal, etc. The concept of the later system of Russian Gulag concentration camps prob. had its origins in the Solovetsky Islands camp — from there the idea spread to the camps in the area covered by the construction of the White Sea ‐ Baltic canal, i.e. ITL BelBaltLag, and from there further, to the entire territory of the Russian state. From the network of camps on the Solovetsky Islands — also called the Solovetsky Islands archipelago — prob. also comes the concept of the „Gulag Archipelago” created by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It is estimated that tens to hundreds of thousands of prisoners passed through the Solovetsky Islands concentration camps. At its peak, c. 72,000 prisoners were held there: e.g. 14,810 (12.1927); 12,909 (03.1928); 65,000 (1929); 53,123 (01.01.1930); 63,000 (01.06.1930); 71,800 (01.01.1931); 15,130 (1932); 19,287 (1933) — c. 43,000 of whom were murdered, including the years 1937‐1938 when c. 9,500 prisoners were transported from the camp and murdered in several places of mass executions, including Sandarmokh, Krasny Bor and Lodeynoye Polye. Among them were many Catholic and Orthodox priests. After the National Socialist Party came to power in Germany in 1933, a German delegation visited the ITL SLON camp, to „inspect” Russian solutions and adopt them later in German concentration camps. It operated until 04.12.1933, with a break from 16.11.1931 to 01.01.1932, when it was part of and later became a subcamp of the ITL BelBaltLag camp. It operated as such until 1939 (from 1936 as a prison). (more on: old.memo.ruClick 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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sources

personal:
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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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