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Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

SIECZKA

forename(s)

Thaddeus (pl. Tadeusz)

function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Vilnius archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Polish Catholic Mission in France
Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.12.20]

academic distinctions

Doctor of Theology
Theology MA

date and place
of death

1941

ITL SorokLagGuLAG slave labour camp network
today: Plesetsk, Arkhangelsk oblast, Russia

more on
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[access: 2024.04.08]

alt. dates and places
of death

1942, 06.1941

Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]

details of death

In 1920, for three months took part — as a student of the King Vladislav IV Gymnasium voluntarily joined the Polish Army — in Polish–Russian War 1919‐1920: served in the artillery of the Polish Army and took part in the Polish counter–offensive, started by the Polish triumph in the Battle of Warsaw in 08.1920 (rightly called the „Miracle on the Vistula”), fighting between Modlin and Luninets in Belarus, driving out the Russian invader. Luninets (formerly Pinsk) was captured on c. 30.09.1939 by the 18th Infantry Division, which launched a counterattack after a successful defense in the Battle of Wkra on 14‐18.08.1920.

On 01.01.1939 made chaplain of the Polish Army reserve.

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of the Russian occupation, arrested by the Russians prob. in 10.1939 — prob. for setting of Polish self–defense against attacks on his Polish parishioners by Communists bands.

Held in Shchuchyn prison, and then in Lida.

The last time seen in the spring of 1941 in Minsk prison.

Prob. deported to Russian slave labour concentration camp Pleseckoje (n. Plesetsk), part of ITL SorokLag concentration camp in Arkhangelsk region, part of Russian Gulag concentration camp system.

After German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, and „amnesty” in 08.1941 for Poles held in Russian prisons and camps, was not released. Perhaps was then in one of the camps in the far north, near Murmansk. The Murmansk region was attacked from the west by the Germans and Finns and basically cut off from the world — although the Russians defended access to Murmansk, perhaps did not manage to leave in time to join the forming Polish army under the command of Gen. Anders in the south of Russia. Remained and perished in one of the Russian concentration camps, in unknown circumstances.

alt. details of death

According to some sources murdered by Russians in 06.1941, after German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, during genocidal murders perpetrated by Russians on inmates held in prisons — in Minsk prison or during the „death march” of Minsk prisoners herded towards Russian mainland.

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

ITL SorokLagClick to display the description, GulagClick to display the description, MinskClick to display the description, 06.1941 massacres (NKVD)Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description, Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921Click to display the description

date and place
of birth

25.01.1902

Łódźtoday: Łódź city pov., Łódź voiv., Poland
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

21.04.1929 (Gate of Dawn chapel in Vilniusmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.22]
)

positions held

1939

administrator — Dembrovotoday: Dembrovo ssov., Shchuchyn dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2023.01.18]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Vasilishkitoday: Vasilishki ssov., Shchuchyn dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

1938 – 1939

administrator — Wesołuchazaścianek (yeomen's settlement)
today: non‐existent, Sloboda ssov., Myadzyel dist., Minsk reg., Belarus

more on
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ St George the Martyr RC parish ⋄ On‐the‐Vilniadeanery name
today: Belarus
RC deanery

1937 – 1938

administrator — Velyka Lapenitsatoday: part of Grinevichi village, Porazava ssov., Svislach dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Vawkavysktoday: Vawkavysk dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2022.01.06]
RC deanery

1936 – 1937

vicar — Raduntoday: Radun ssov., Voranava dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary RC parish ⋄ Raduntoday: Radun ssov., Voranava dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.06]
RC deanery

1934 – 1936

priest — (France territory)today: France
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[access: 2023.04.10]

till 1934

PhD student — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ Department of Theology, Stephen Batory University [i.e. Vilnius University (from 1945) / some faculties acting clandestinely (1939‐1945) / closed by Lithuanians (1939) / Stephen Batory University (1919‐1939)] — PhD thesis „The cult of the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Gate of Dawn in historical context”, successfully defended on 27.06.1934

1933 – 1934

curatus/rector/expositus — Pliabańtoday: Krasnoe ssov., Maladzyechna dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
more on
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[access: 2023.01.18]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC church ⋄ Krasnoealso: Krasnoe on Usha river
today: Krasnoe ssov., Maladzyechna dist., Minsk reg., Belarus

more on
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[access: 2023.01.18]
, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Maladzyechnatoday: Maladzyechna dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.06]
RC deanery

1931 – 1933

administrator — Jašiūnaitoday: Jašiūnai eld., Šalčininkai dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ St Anne the mother of Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Trakaitoday: Trakai eld., Trakai dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
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[access: 2022.01.06]
RC deanery

1930 – 1931

vicar — Sokółkatoday: Sokółka gm., Sokółka pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.29]
⋄ St Anthony of Padua RC parish ⋄ Sokółkatoday: Sokółka gm., Sokółka pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.29]
RC deanery

1929 – 1930

vicar — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ St Therese the Virgin RC parish (Gate of Dawn)Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
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[access: 2022.01.06]
RC deanery

1929

vicar — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ Sacred Heart of Jesus and St Francis de Sales RC parish ⋄ Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
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[access: 2022.01.06]
RC deanery

1929

vicar — Naujoji Vilniatoday: district of Vilnius, Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Casimir the Prince and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Verkiai Calvarytoday: part of Vilnius, Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

till 1929

student — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ Department of Theology, Stephen Batory University [i.e. Vilnius University (from 1945) / some faculties acting clandestinely (1939‐1945) / closed by Lithuanians (1939) / Stephen Batory University (1919‐1939)]

1924 – 1929

student — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

author of many works on the image of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn; as well as „Battery–Fire!” (under the pseudonym „Stanisław Stasiak”), Vilnius 1933

others related
in death

RADWAŃSKIClick to display biography Joseph John

sites and events
descriptions

ITL SorokLag: Russian Rus. Исправи́тельно‐Трудово́й Ла́герь (Eng. Corrective Labor Camp) ITL Rus. Сорокский (Eng. Sorokskiy) — concentration and slave forced labor camp (within the Gulag complex) — headquartered in Belomorsk in Republic of Karelia (till 1938 known as Soroky) and then in Kodino in Arkhangelsk Oblast. Founded on 07.05.1938. Prisoners slaved at the construction of the second track of the Belomorsk‐Murmansk railway line and the Belomorsk‐Plesetsk railway line (with the railway station in Obozerskaya), ethyl alcohol distilleries (in the hydrolysis process) in Belomorsk and Onega, in the operation of railway lines, etc. At its peak c. 52,000 prisoners were held there: e.g. 17,360 (01.10.1938); 17,458 (01.01.1939); 17,941 (01.01.1940); 52,379 (01.01.1941); 40,164 (01.07.1941); 21,725 (01.01.1942); 22,289 (01.04.1942). Ceased to exist on 08.04.1942. (more on: old.memo.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.04.08]
)

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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Minsk: Russian prison. In 1937 site of mass murders perpetrated by the Russians during a „Great Purge”. After Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II place of incarceration of many Poles, In 06.1941, under attack by Germans, Russians murdered there a group of Polish prisoner kept in Central and co‐called American prisons in Mińsk. The rest were driven towards Chervyen in a „death march” (10,000‐20,000 prisoners perished), into Russia. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
)

06.1941 massacres (NKVD): After German attack of Russian‐occupied Polish territory and following that of Russia itself, before a panic escape, Russians murdered — in accordance with the genocidal order issued on 24.06.1941 by the Russian interior minister Lawrence Beria to murder all prisoners (formally „sentenced” for „counter‐revolutionary activities”, „anti‐Russian acts”, sabotage and diversion, and political prisoners „in custody”), held in NKVD‐run prisons in Russian occupied Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — c. 40,000‐50,000 prisoners. In addition Russians murdered many thousands of victims arrested after German attack regarding them as „enemies of people” — those victims were not even entered into prisons’ registers. Most of them were murdered in massacres in the prisons themselves, the others during so‐called „death marches” when the prisoners were driven out east. After Russians departure and start of German occupation a number of spontaneous pogroms of Jews took place. Many Jews collaborated with Russians and were regarded as co‐responsible for prison massacres. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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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 Stanislav 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
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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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Polish‐Russian war of 1919‐1921: War for independence of Poland and its borders. Poland regained independence in 1918 but had to fight for its borders with former imperial powers, in particular Russia. Russia planned to incite Bolshevik‐like revolutions in the Western Europe and thus invaded Poland. Russian invaders were defeated in 08.1920 in a battle called Warsaw battle („Vistula river miracle”, one of the 10 most important battles in history, according to some historians). Thanks to this victory Poland recaptured part of the lands lost during partitions of Poland in XVIII century, and Europe was saved from the genocidal Communism. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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sources

personal:
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[access: 2017.06.16]
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[access: 2021.12.19]

bibliographical:
Vilnius archdiocese clergy martyrology 1939‐1945”, Fr Thaddeus Krahel, Białystok, 2017
Lexicon of Polish clergy repressed in USSR in 1939‐1988”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
original images:
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