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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

WASILEWSKI

forename(s)

Anthony (pl. Antoni)

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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]

academic distinctions

Theology MA

honorary titles

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

Medal of Independencemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2019.02.02]

honorary canonmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
(Mogilev cathedral)

date and place
of death

11.1929

Shakhrisabztoday: Qashqadaryo reg., Uzbekistan
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[access: 2024.03.19]

alt. dates and places
of death

10.1929

details of death

In 1919, after 9‐days long search, accused by the Russians of „celebrating Mass rites without permission” in one of Moscow's nurseries.

The nursery was shut down.

Himself removed from his dean and parish priest post in Moscow.

For the first time arrested by the Russians on 29.04.1919 together with Abp Edward Ropp, among others — as a hostage (after capture of Vilnius by Polish troops).

Soon released.

Arrested again in 03.1923.

Tried in Moscow in a show trial of Abp Cieplak and 14 priests on 21‐25.03.1923.

Sent for 3 years to prison.

Held in Lefortowo and Lubyanka prisons in Moscow.

Released on 24.01.1925.

Yet again arrested on 14/15.01.1927 together with 6 seminarians of a conspiratorial theological seminary that he run in his apartment (Joseph Turło, Casimir Tyssowski and Casimir Woronko among them).

Jailed in Sankt Petersburg.

Accused of „counter–revolutionary activities and espionage”.

On 18.06.1927 sentenced to 5 years of slave labour by a criminal Russian OGPU Council kangaroo court.

Transported to ITL SLON Solovetsky concentration camp.

29.08.1927 sentence commuted to 3 years in exile.

At the end of 1927 exiled in Bek Budi (Qarshi) in Uzbekhistan.

Lived in total poverty and filth.

In 10.1929 moved to Shahrisabz.

On 25.03.1930 a letter arrived the Polish Red Cross representative office in Moscow informing of his death.

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

Forced exileClick to display the description, ITL SLONClick to display the description, Moscow (Lefortovo)Click to display the description, Moscow (Lubyanka)Click to display the description, Trial of 21‐25.03.1923Click to display the description, Sankt Petersburg (Kresty)Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

13.09.1868

Lublintoday: Lublin city pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.08.20]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1891

positions held

rector — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ clandestine conspiratorial seminary

from 1926

parish priest — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ St Catherine of Alexandria the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

from 1918

spiritual father — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ Metropolitan Theological Seminary

from 1918

parish priest — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ St Boniface RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery — also: on Basel Island

chaplain — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ Institute for Girls, Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary CSFFM ⋄ RC chapel — on Basil's Island

1911 – 1912

vicar — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC pro–cathedral parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

1905 – 1911

dean — Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

1905 – 1911

parish priest — Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

prefect — Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
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⋄ school(s)

prefect — in private houses of Polish railwaymen on the Brest–Moscow line

1892 – 1905

vicar — Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
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⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

from c. 1891

vicar — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ St Catherine of Alexandria the Virgin and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
RC deanery

1888 – 1891

student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Imperial Roman Catholic Spiritual Academy (1842‐1918)

1886 – 1888

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

others related
in death

BUDKIEWICZClick to display biography Constantine Romualdo, CHODNIEWICZClick to display biography Paul, CHWIEĆKOClick to display biography Lucian, EJSMONTClick to display biography Stanislav, JANUKOWICZClick to display biography Peter, RUTKOWSKIClick to display biography Francis, TROJGOClick to display biography John, TURŁOClick to display biography Joseph, TYSSOWSKIClick to display biography Casimir, WORONKOClick to display biography Casimir

sites and events
descriptions

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
[access: 2014.12.20]
)

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
[access: 2024.04.08]
)

Moscow (Lefortovo): Prison in Moscow where Russians held many political prisoners. During big purge of 1936‐1938 used for interrogations and torture. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.22]
)

Moscow (Lubyanka): Location of a murderous Russian Cheka and next GPU and NKVD (later MVD and KGB) organisations and a prison (in the basement, with 118 cells — in 1936 — of which 94 were solitary — altogether at any time up to 350 prisoners were held there and c. 2,857 in 1937) in Moscow at Lubyanka Square where Russians interrogated and murdered many political prisoners. Most of the prisoners after investigations were transferred to other Moscov prisons, e.g. Butyrki. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.10.31]
)

Trial of 21‐25.03.1923: Show trial against abp John Cieplakow, 14 Catholic priest and one lay Catholic held on 21‐25.03.1923 in Moscow accused of „participation in a counter‐revolutionary organization aiming at counter‐acting the decree on the separation of the church from the state”, of „incitement to rebellion by superstition”. The Russian prosecutor thundered: „Any movement directed against the Soviet government is counter‐revolutionary and must be punished as such. For belonging to an organization whose essence I have explained, all defendants deserve the highest penalty”. And lo‐and‐behold abp Cieplak and Fr Budkiewicz were sentence to death, the others got from 6 months to 10 years of prison or slave labour. Fr Budkiewicz was murdered in prison. Abp Cieplak’s sentence was subsequently reduced to 10 months of slave labour and he was exchanged for Russian spies in Poland among whom was Bolesław Bierut, future first Russian governor in Commie‐Nazi Poland, conquered in 1945 by Russia. Most of the other accused were exchanged for Russian spies as well and went to Poland. At least five however did not return from prisons, concentration camps and exile, among them Fr Leonidas Fiodorov, first Greek‐Catholic exarch in Russia, who in 2001 was beatified by pope St John Paul II. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.22]
)

Sankt Petersburg (Kresty): Russian prison in Sankt Petersburg where many Polish priests were kept captive. Many of them were also murdered there. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
)

sources

personal:
biographies.library.nd.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
, ru.openlist.wikiClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]
, www.polskipetersburg.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.11.13]

bibliographical:
Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‐1939. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
original images:
krzysztofpozarski.files.wordpress.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13]
, www.sosnowiecfakty.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.28]
, ipn.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02]

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