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surname

NICZAJ

forename(s)

Stephen (pl. Szczepan)

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Stephen (pl. Stepan)

function

eparchial priest

creed

Ukrainian Greek Catholic GCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

diocese / province

Przemyśl GC eparchymore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

nationality

Ukrainian

date and place
of death

29.12.1949

Dubnotoday: Dubno rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]

details of death

After end of military hostilities of the World War II started by German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939, after German defeat and start in 1944 of another Russian occupation, arrested on 06.12.1949 in Lviv by the agents of Russian murderous MGB organization (successor of genocidal NKVD), together with his wife.

Accused that, among others, „[one of his sons] joined Ukrainian 14th Waffen Grenadier Division SS‑Galizien, fighting alongside Germans.

[The other son] joined [Ukrainian genocided organisation] OUN/UPA.

While living in Lviv kept in touch with OUN underground […] His house became a contact point and place of hiding for OUN couriers” — both of his aforementioned sons managed to escape to the west in 1944/1945.

On 14.12.1949 sentenced to exile under supervision of MGB.

For a time held in transit prison no 25 in Lviv.

Perished in a railway wagon, n. Dubno town in Rivne oblast in Ukraine, during transport to exile.

His body was thrown out of the wagon in Fastiv n. Kiev…

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

27.12.1879

Volitsa Komarevaalso: Volitsa
today: Sokal urban hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine

more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.05]

alt. dates and places
of birth

28.12.1879

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

03.09.1905 (Greek Catholic Przemyśl cathedral)

positions held

1945 – 1949

resident — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ GC parish — retired/leave of absence

1944 – 1945

resident — Turkaform.: Turka on Stryi river
today: Turka urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.02.12]
⋄ Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Turkaform.: Turka on Stryi river
today: Turka urban hrom., Sambir rai., Lviv, Ukraine

more on
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[access: 2021.02.12]
GC deanery — retired/leave of absence

1931 – 1945

dean — Sokaltoday: Sokal urban hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.20]
GC deanery

1923 – 1945

parish priest — Sokaltoday: Sokal urban hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.11.20]
⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles GC parish ⋄ Sokaltoday: Sokal urban hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.11.20]
GC deanery

1923 – 1931

parish priest — Sielec Bełskitoday: Silets, Chervonohrad urban hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Holiest Mother of God GC parish ⋄ Velyki Mostytoday: Velyki Mosty urban hrom., Chervonohrad rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.12.03]
GC deanery

1917 – 1923

parish priest — Hrebennetoday: Lubycza Królewska gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ St Nicholas the Wonderworker GC parish ⋄ Potelych / Rava–Ruskadeanery names/seats
today: Rava–Ruska urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
GC deanery

1915 – 1917

administrator — Hrebennetoday: Lubycza Królewska gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ St Nicholas the Wonderworker GC parish ⋄ Potelychtoday: Rava–Ruska urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.08]
GC deanery

1916 – 1917

parish priest — Ruda Monastyrskatoday: village non–existent, Dobrosyn–Maheriv hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.22]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary GC parish ⋄ Potelychtoday: Rava–Ruska urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.08]
GC deanery

1909 – 1915

prefect — Rava–Ruskatoday: Rava–Ruska urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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⋄ St George the Martyr GC parish ⋄ Potelychtoday: Rava–Ruska urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.08]
GC deanery

1908 – 1909

vicar — Rava–Ruskatoday: Rava–Ruska urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ St George the Martyr GC parish ⋄ Potelychtoday: Rava–Ruska urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.08]
GC deanery

1905 – 1908

vicar — Werchratatoday: Horyniec–Zdrój gm., Lubaczów pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ St George the Martyr GC parish ⋄ Potelychtoday: Rava–Ruska urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.08]
GC deanery

1905

student — Przemyśltoday: Przemyśl city pov., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.04.01]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Greek Catholic Theological Seminary

1904

student — Lvivtoday: Lviv urban hrom., Lviv rai., Lviv, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.16]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Greek Catholic Theological Seminary

married — six children

others related
in death

HORECZKOClick to display biography Michael, WENHRYNOWICZClick to display biography Stephen Emilian, WOROBIJClick to display biography Michael

murder sites
camp 
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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
[access: 2014.12.20]
)

Lviv (transit prison no 25): Founded in the autumn of 1945 by Russian murderous MVD (successor of genocidal NKVD) in the former Lviv Jewish ghetto. One of the largest of its kind in Russia. 21 barracks, hospital and office bulding were constructed there. Prisoners had to wait from week to a year for transport to one of concentration camps Gulag. Closed down in 1955. (more on: www.territoryterror.org.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.04.04]
)

Ribbentrop-Molotov: Genocidal Russian–German alliance pact between Russian leader Joseph Stalin and German leader Adolf Hitler signed on 23.08.1939 in Moscow by respective foreign ministers, Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov for Russia and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany. The pact sanctioned and was the direct cause of joint Russian and German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the World War II in 09.1939. In a political sense, the pact was an attempt to restore the status quo ante before 1914, with one exception, namely the „commercial” exchange of the so–called „Kingdom of Poland”, which in 1914 was part of the Russian Empire, fore Eastern Galicia (today's western Ukraine), in 1914 belonging to the Austro–Hungarian Empire. Galicia, including Lviv, was to be taken over by the Russians, the „Kingdom of Poland” — under the name of the General Governorate — Germany. The resultant „war was one of the greatest calamities and dramas of humanity in history, for two atheistic and anti–Christian ideologies — national and international socialism — rejected God and His fifth Decalogue commandment: Thou shall not kill!” (Abp Stanislaus Gądecki, 01.09.2019). The decisions taken — backed up by the betrayal of the formal allies of Poland, France and Germany, which on 12.09.1939, at a joint conference in Abbeville, decided not to provide aid to attacked Poland and not to take military action against Germany (a clear breach of treaty obligations with Poland) — were on 28.09.1939 slightly altered and made more precise when a treaty on „German–Russian boundaries and friendship” was agreed by the same murderous signatories. One of its findings was establishment of spheres of influence in Central and Eastern Europe and in consequence IV partition of Poland. In one of its secret annexes agreed, that: „the Signatories will not tolerate on its respective territories any Polish propaganda that affects the territory of the other Side. On their respective territories they will suppress all such propaganda and inform each other of the measures taken to accomplish it”. The agreements resulted in a series of meeting between two genocidal organization representing both sides — German Gestapo and Russian NKVD when coordination of efforts to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and Polish leading classes (in Germany called «Intelligenzaktion», in Russia took the form of Katyń massacres) where discussed. Resulted in deaths of hundreds of thousands of Polish intelligentsia, including thousands of priests presented here, and tens of millions of ordinary people,. The results of this Russian–German pact lasted till 1989 and are still in evidence even today. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2015.09.30]
)

Pius XI's encyclicals: Facing the creation of two totalitarian systems in Europe, which seemed to compete with each other, though there were more similarities than contradictions between them, Pope Pius XI issued in 03.1937 (within 5 days) two encyclicals. In the „Mit brennender Sorge” (Eng. „With Burning Concern”) published on 14.03.1938, condemned the national socialism prevailing in Germany. The Pope wrote: „Whoever, following the old Germanic–pre–Christian beliefs, puts various impersonal fate in the place of a personal God, denies the wisdom of God and Providence […], whoever exalts earthly values: race or nation, or state, or state system, representatives of state power or other fundamental values of human society, […] and makes them the highest standard of all values, including religious ones, and idolizes them, this one […] is far from true faith in God and from a worldview corresponding to such faith”. On 19.03.1937, published „Divini Redemptoris” (Eng. „Divine Redeemer”), in which criticized Russian communism, dialectical materialism and the class struggle theory. The Pope wrote: „Communism deprives man of freedom, and therefore the spiritual basis of all life norms. It deprives the human person of all his dignity and any moral support with which he could resist the onslaught of blind passions […] This is the new gospel that Bolshevik and godless communism preaches as a message of salvation and redemption of humanity”… Pius XI demanded that the established human law be subjected to the natural law of God , recommended the implementation of the ideal of a Christian state and society, and called on Catholics to resist. Two years later, National Socialist Germany and Communist Russia came together and started World War II. (more on: www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
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[access: 2023.05.28]
)

sources

personal:
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bibliographical:
Clergy of Przemyśl Eparchy and Apostolic Exarchate of Lemkivshchyna”, Bogdan Prach, Ukrainian Catholic University Publishing House, Lviv 2015

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