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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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surname

BURNEIKA

forename(s)

John (pl. Jan)

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Jonas

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Kaunas archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]

nationality

Lithuanian

date and place
of death

16.04.1956

ITL OzerLagGuLAG slave labour camp network
today: Vikhorevka, Irkutsk oblast, Russia

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.04.04]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the II World, after start of Lithuanian occupation of part of Polish Vilnius county in 09.1939, after Russian annexation of Lithuania in 06.1940 collaborated with Lithuanian Riflemen's Union (Šauliai).

Helped members persecuted by the Russians.

After German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, some of the Šauliai joined units responsible for murders of Jews and Poles.

After German defeat in the World War II and start in 1944/1945 of Russian occupation of Lithuania initially went into hiding (earlier Germans recommended escape to the west with them but he refused) noticing that was shadowed by Russians.

After start of his ministry in Kaunas prob. started contacts with anti–Russian Lithuanian partisans providing spiritual guidance and support.

Arrested by the Russians on 03.06.1949.

Held in Vilnius prison.

Next transported to Russian slave labour concentration camp ITL OzerLag — part of Russian system of concentration camps Gulag.

Held in Vikhorevka n. Bratsk (Irkutsk oblast) high security sub–camp.

Slaved at forest clearances.

From 1954 suffered from heart, liver and lung diseases.

In 1956 bedridden.

Perished in the camp.

cause of death

extermination

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

ITL OzerLagClick to display the description, GulagClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description, Pius XI's encyclicalsClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

04.10.1901

Nakrušiškiaitoday: Viešvėnai I eld., Telšiai dist., Telšiai Cou., Lithuania
more on
lt.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]

alt. dates and places
of birth

17.10.1901

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

01.04.1933

positions held

1948 – 1949

parish priest — KaunasAukštieji Šančiai neighborhood in Šančiai district
today: Kaunas city dist., Kaunas Cou., Lithuania

more on
lt.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]
⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary of Gate of Heaven RC parish ⋄ Kaunastoday: Kaunas city dist., Kaunas Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]
RC deanery

1948

vicar — Kaunastoday: Kaunas city dist., Kaunas Cou., Lithuania
more on
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[access: 2022.06.29]
⋄ Blessed Sacrament RC parish ⋄ Kaunastoday: Kaunas city dist., Kaunas Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]
RC deanery

1946 – 1948

vicar — KaunasAukštieji Šančiai neighborhood in Šančiai district
today: Kaunas city dist., Kaunas Cou., Lithuania

more on
lt.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]
⋄ Blessed Virgin Mary of Gate of Heaven RC parish ⋄ Kaunastoday: Kaunas city dist., Kaunas Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]
RC deanery

1944 – 1946

parish priest — Lyduokiaitoday: Lyduokiai eld., Ukmergė dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ RC parish ⋄ Ukmergėtoday: Ukmergė urban eld., Ukmergė dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.13]
RC deanery

1940 – 1944

administrator — Lyduokiaitoday: Lyduokiai eld., Ukmergė dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
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[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ RC parish ⋄ Ukmergėtoday: Ukmergė urban eld., Ukmergė dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.13]
RC deanery

1933 – 1940

vicar — KaunasŽaliakalnis district
today: Kaunas city dist., Kaunas Cou., Lithuania

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.30]
⋄ Our Lord's Resurrection RC parish

till 1933

student — Kaunastoday: Kaunas city dist., Kaunas Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]
⋄ theology, Vitold the Great' University (from 1930), University of Lithuania (1922‐1930)

from 1927

student — Kaunastoday: Kaunas city dist., Kaunas Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

sites and events
descriptions

ITL OzerLag: Russian Rus. Исправи́тельно‐Трудово́й Ла́герь (Eng. Corrective Labor Camp) ITL Rus. Озерный (Eng. Ozerniy) — concentration and slave forced labor camp (within the Gulag complex) — headquartered in the town of Taishet in the Irkutsk Oblast (in 1953‐1954 temporarily in Bratsk, in the same oblast). Founded on 07.12.1948 and until 1954 also functioning as the Rus. Особый лагерь (Eng. Special camp) GULAG No. 7. Prisoners among whom were many Poles slaved at the construction of the Baikal‐Amur railway — initially the Tayshet‐Bratsk section, and then from Bratsk to Ust'‐Kut (distance c. 700 km), at forest clearing and wood processing, and the related maintenance of industrial complexes, and the construction of a hydroelectric power plant , in quarries, in lime production, in agriculture and in the production of consumer goods, etc. At its peak — till the death on 05.03.1953 of Russian socialist leader, Joseph Stalin — c. 37,000 prisoners were held there: e.g. 31,881 (01.01.1950); 33,325 (01.01.1951); 37,093 (01.01.1952), one quarter of them were women; 31,225 (01.01.1953); 36,152 (01.02.1953); 29,347 (01.01.1954). Ceased to exist in 1960. (more on: old.memo.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.04.08]
, gulagmuseum.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.14]
)

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
[access: 2024.04.08]
)

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
[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
[access: 2023.05.28]
, www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.05.28]
)

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original images:
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