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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

SKWIRECKI

forename(s)

Vincent (pl. Wincenty)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Tiraspol diocesemore on
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[access: 2014.11.14]

date and place
of death

19.09.1937

Kamianskeform.: Dniprodzerzhynsk
today: Kamianske urban hrom., Kamianske rai., Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

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[access: 2023.03.02]

alt. dates and places
of death

09.11.1937

Dniproform.: Yekaterinoslav, Dnipropetrovsk
today: Dnipro urban hrom., Dnipro rai., Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

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details of death

Arrested on 25.06.1920 in Alexandrovsk (Zaporozhe) on suspicion of espionage.

On 16.08.1920 sentenced to 3 years of slave labour.

Taken to Russian concentration camps.

Jailed in Kursk concentration camp among others.

After release and return in 1924 arrested again but again released.

In 1923‐1928 resided and clandestinely ministered in Konstantinovka village in Crimea.

Next in 1928‐1930 clandestinely ministered in Grigorievka village (Kherson region).

From 1930 ministered clandestinely in Yekaterinoslaw (Dnepropetrovsk), in a former the–then closed St Joseph parish.

Ministered also clandestinely in Dniprodzerzhynsk in a former St Nicholas parish (closed by then by the Russians).

In Dniprodzerzhynsk on 27.06.1937 arrested.

On 09.09.1937 sentenced to death by the genocidal Special Council NKVD kangaroo court (known as «NKVD Troika»).

Murdered by the Russians, by the wall of the presbytery of St Nicholas church, together with a few Catholic parishioners.

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, GulagClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

1880

Skrebotiškistoday: Vaškai eld., Pasvalys dist., Panevėžys Cou., Lithuania
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alt. dates and places
of birth

1886

Pasvalystoday: Pasvalys urban eld., Pasvalys dist., Panevėžys Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.06.29]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1912

positions held

priest — Dniprodzerzhynsktoday: Kamianske, Kamianske urban hrom., Kamianske rai., Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
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⋄ RC parish

from 1930

priest — Dnipropetrovsktoday: Dnipro, Dnipro urban hrom., Dnipro rai., Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.27]
⋄ RC parish

1928 – 1930

administrator — Hryhorivkatoday: Hryhorivka hrom., Chaplynka rai., Kherson, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.08.05]
⋄ RC parish

1924 – 1928

administrator — Konstantinovkatoday: Loginovka, Krasny Kut reg., Saratov oblast, Russia
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[access: 2022.08.05]
⋄ RC parish ⋄ Simferopoltoday: Simferopol city rai., Crimea Aut. Rep., Ukraine
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[access: 2020.09.24]
RC deanery

1912 – 1920

vicar — Dnipropetrovsktoday: Dnipro, Dnipro urban hrom., Dnipro rai., Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
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⋄ RC parish — administrator of the chapel in Aleksandrowsk

till 1912

student — Saratovtoday: Saratov oblast, Russia
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[access: 2022.02.04]
⋄ 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]
)

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.

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:
rkc.kh.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
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, biographies.library.nd.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
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[access: 2014.12.20]
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[access: 2016.03.14]
, stsergiydndz.wix.comClick 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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