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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

TROCHIMOWICZ

surname
versions/aliases

TROCHYMOWYCZ

forename(s)

Michael (pl. Michał)

forename(s)
versions/aliases

Michael (pl. Mychajło)

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function

presbiter (i.e. iereus)

creed

Eastern Orthodox Church ORmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Chełm‐Podlachia OR eparchy (Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the Generalgouvernement AOC‐GG)more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]

Warsaw‐Chełm OR eparchy (Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PAOC)

date and place
of death

25.06.1942

Buśnotoday: Białopole gm., Chełm pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.08.20]

alt. dates and places
of death

23.05.1942

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of German occupation, murdered under unclear circumstances.

According to Ukrainian sources, was to be murdered by the „Polish police”, in retaliation for the revindication — takeover — in 1939/1940, after the start of the German occupation, of the Catholic temple and its transformation into a Ukrainian Orthodox church in the village of Buśno (the temple had a complicated history, initially being a church of the Greek Catholic Church, looted in 1875 by the Russians for the benefit of the Orthodox Church and recovered in 1919 by the Catholic Church).

The next day, the „Polish” police — prob. a German–led Polish police known as blue police — were to murder the church deac (cantor), dragging him out of the rectory.

A certain „Mściwój–Dar”, constable serving in nearby (c. 3 km) Białopole (earlier in Tarnogród and then in Sławatycze) was suspected of having committed the crime.

alt. details of death

When the German occupation of the Chełm region started, the Germans began to play the national card, supporting the Ukrainians against the Poles.

They closed Polish primary schools and opened Ukrainian schools (including 2 schools for teachers).

They restored Orthodox churches, closed by Poles in 1938 (polonization and restitution action).

Ukrainian organizations colaborated with Germans, in particular the Ukrainian auxiliary police (Germ. Ukrainische Hilfspolizei), which carried out anti‐Polish activities.

Ukrainians were joining German paramilitary formations and specialized police units, such as the railway police (Germ. Bahnschutz), industrial police (Germ: Werkschutz), forest police (Germ. Forstschutz), Kripo criminal police (Germ. Kriminalpolizei), secret police Gestapo, and finally the Germ. Sonderdienst — a special police force composed of Germans living in the General Government, to which Ukrainians were also admitted.

The Germans also trained Ukrainians in SS guard units (Germ. SS‐Wachmannschaften) in a training camp in Trawniki.

However, there was also a Polish police, the so‐called „Navy blue”, under German leadership.

At the same time, on 18.04.1941, the chairman of the collaborative Ukrainian Central Committee UCK, Volodymyr Kubijovych, presented German governor Frank with a memorial in which he postulated the creation of an autonomous territorial unit, in the areas of, inter alia, Chełm region, from which the Polish population was to be displaced.

The appeal was renewed several times.

The privileges of Ukrainians also resulted from the conviction of some Germans that „Ukrainians, as a race, are higher than Poles.

Therefore, they could have radios and had greater food rations than Poles (even by a third)”.

And the Chełm unit of the genocidal Ukrainian organization OUN wrote in 08.1943 that „The church in the Chełm region is fully dependent on the German authorities.

As we are informed, half of the officials of the Chełm Spiritual Consistory are in the service of the Gestapo”.

The Polish reaction, led by the resisteance Home Army AK and the Peasant Battalions BCh (part of the Polish Clandestine State), began in 1942.

In 1942, it limited itself to executing the most active local leaders of the Ukrainian community.

According to the list drawn up on 22.01.1944 by the Ukrainian Dopomohy Committee (UDK) in Lublin, 38 people were killed in 1942, but most prob. by the Germans themselves.

Thus perhaps he fell victim to one of these murders.

After all, he took over the parish and church in Buśno after Fr Volodymyr Ochab, who in 1938 was expelled from the parish by the Polish authorities (the abovementioned polonization and restitution action), and then in 1940 murdered by the Russians in Tver (the Katyn massacre) — handed it to him by the German occupier.

Few months later German initiated «Aktion Zamość» and following that genocide of Poles perpetrated by Ukrainians («Genocidium Atrox») commenced.

cause of death

murder

perpetrators

Poles (?)

sites and events

«Aktion Zamość»Click to display the description, «Genocidium Atrox»Click to display the description, GeneralgouvernementClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

14.10.1902

Tyszowcetoday: Tyszowce gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
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alt. dates and places
of birth

14.11.1902

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

17.06.1928

positions held

from 24.03.1942

deputy dean — Dubienkatoday: Dubienka gm., Chełm pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
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OR deanery

c. 1940 – 1942

parish priest — Buśnotoday: Białopole gm., Chełm pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.08.20]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR parish ⋄ Dubienkatoday: Dubienka gm., Chełm pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.08.20]
OR deanery

14.04.1934 – c. 1940

parish priest — Teratyntoday: Uchanie gm., Hrubieszów pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
⋄ St Nicholas OR parish ⋄ Hrubieszówtoday: Hrubieszów urban gm., Hrubieszów pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
OR deanery

16.08.1930 – 1934

priest — Babicetoday: Obsza gm., Biłgoraj pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.05]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR parish ⋄ Biłgorajtoday: Biłgoraj urban gm., Biłgoraj pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.03]
OR deanery — parish priest's assistant

priest — Zamchtoday: Obsza gm., Biłgoraj pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.09.29]
⋄ OR church ⋄ Biłgorajtoday: Biłgoraj urban gm., Biłgoraj pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.03]
OR deanery — acting („ad interim”)

06.1928 – 08.1930

vicar — Nabróżtoday: Łaszczów gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
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[access: 2021.08.20]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr and St Agnes the Martyr RC parish ⋄ Tomaszów Lubelskitoday: Tomaszów Lubelski gm., Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
RC deanery — appointment: 08.06.1928; earlier, on 16.11.1925, appointed as a priest in Żerocin, but did not take up the position (perhaps was supposed to have cheirotonia on 24.01.1927, but it did not happen)

17.06.1928

presbiter (Eng. priest, i.e. iereus) — Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP — priesthood cheirotonia, i.e. ordination, preceded on 10.06.1928 by deacon cheirotonia

till 1925

student — Kremenetstoday: Kremenets urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2020.10.18]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Orthodox Theological Seminary

sites and events
descriptions

«Aktion Zamość»: On 11.1942, the Germans began «Aktion Zamość» — a series of forced resettlement, an ethnic cleansing actions of the Polish population and pacification of Polish villages carried out in the Zamość region, in the territory of the General Government occupied by Germans, under the Germ. Generalplan Ost GPO (Eng. General Plan East), i.e. the plan of German settlement and Germanization of territories in Central and Eastern Europe. Until 08.1943, it covered a total of 100,000‐110,000 displaced Poles, including 30,000 children (some of them were taken from their parents and semt for a forced Germanization in German families) — most of them passed through the special Germ. UWZ Lager Zamość (Eng. resettlement camp in Zamość), where selection took place, e.g. group IV, children separated from parents. In place of the displaced, it was intended to settle 60,000 German colonists from Bessarabia, Ukraine, Bosnia, Serbia, Slovenia and Russia. In the first phase (28.11.1942‐03.1943) 116 villages were forcibly displaced — the displacements were carried out by Germ. Schutzpolizei units or the gendarmerie, with the help of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police collaborating with Germany; in the second, as part of the so‐called Aktion Werwolf (06.1943‐08.1943) — 171 villages — the displacements were supervised by Wehrmacht and Waffen‐SS units, supported by the employees of UWZ Lager Zamość. As a result of the actions of the Polish resistance movement — during the so‐called Zamość Uprising, Polish partisans fought several large battles with the overwhelming German forces — 293 villages were displaced out of the 696 planned. In some villages Germans settled resettled Ukrainians — during the so‐called Ukraineraktion — under control of collaborating with Germans Ukrainian Support Committees among others. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.08.20]
, journals.umcs.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.08.20]
)

«Genocidium Atrox»: In 1939‐1947, especially in 1943‐1944, independent Ukrainian units, mainly belonging to genocidal Ukrainian organizations OUN (political arm) and UPA (military arm), supported by local Ukrainian population, murdered — often in extremely brutal way — in Volyn and surrounding regions of pre‐war Poland, from 130,000 to 180,000 Poles, all civilians: men, women, children, old and young. Polish‐Ukrainian conflict that openly emerged during and after World War I (in particular resulting in Polish‐Ukrainian war of 1918‐1919), that survived and even deepened later when western Ukraine became a part Poland, exploded again after the outbreak of the World War II in 09.1939. During Russian occupation of 1939‐1941, when hundreds of thousands of Poles were deported into central Russia, when tens of thousands were murdered (during so‐called Katyń massacres, among others), this open conflict had a limited character, helped by the fact that at that time Ukrainians, Ukrainian nationalists in particular, were also persecuted by the Russians. The worst came after German‐Russian war started on 22.06.1941 and German occupation resulted. Initially Ukrainians supported Germans (Ukrainian police was initiated, Ukrainians co—participated in extermination of the Jews and were joining army units fighting alongside Germans). Later when German ambivalent position towards Ukraine became apparent Ukrainians started acting independently. And in 1943 one of the units of aforementioned Ukrainian OUN/UPA organization, in Volyn, started and perpetrated a genocide of Polish population of this region. In mere few weeks OUN/UPA murdered, with Germans passively watching on the sidelines, more than 40,000 Poles. This strategy was consequently approved and adopted by all OUN/UPA organisations and similar genocides took place in Eastern Lesser Poland (part of Ukraine) where more than 20,000 Poles were slaughtered, meeting however with growing resistance from Polish population. Further west, in Chełm, Rzeszów, etc. regions this genocide turned into an extremely bloody conflict. In general genocide, perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists, partly collaborating with German occupants, on vulnerable Polish population took part in hundreds of villages and small towns, where virtually all Polish inhabitants were wiped out. More than 200 priests, religious and nuns perished in this holocaust — known as «Genocidium Atrox» (Eng. „savage genocide”) The nature and purpose of genocide is perhaps best reflected in the song sung by the murderers: „We will slaughter the Poles, we will cut down the Jews, we must conquer the great Ukraine” (ukr. „Поляків виріжем, Євреїв видусим, велику Україну здобути мусим”). This holocaust and conflict ended up in total elimination of Polish population and Polish culture from Ukraine, in enforced deportations in 1944‐1945 of remaining Poles from Ukraine and some Ukrainians into Ukraine proper, and finally in deportation of Ukrainians from East‐South to the Western parts of Polish republic prl by Commie‐Nazi Russian controlled Polish security forces („Vistula Action”). (more on: www.swzygmunt.knc.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.06.20]
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Generalgouvernement: After the Polish defeat in the 09.1939 campaign, which was the result of the Ribbentrop‐Molotov Pact and constituted the first stage of World War II, and the beginning of German occupation in part of Poland (in the other, eastern part of Poland, the Russian occupation began), the Germans divided the occupied Polish territory into five main regions. In two of them new German provinces were created, two other were incorporated into other provinces. However, the fifth part was treated separately, and in a political sense it was supposed to recreate the German idea from 1915 (during World War I, after the defeat of the Russians in the Battle of Gorlice in 05.1915) of creating a Polish enclave within Germany. Illegal in the sense of international law, i.e. Hague Convention, and public law, managed by the Germans according to separate laws — especially established for the Polish Germ. Untermenschen (Eng. subhumans) — till the Russian offensive in 1945 it constituted the Germ. Großdeutschland (Eng. Greater Germany). Till 31.07.1940 formally called Germ. Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete (Eng. General Government for the occupied Polish lands) — later simply Germ. Generalgouvernement (Eng. General Governorate), as in the years 1915‐1918. From 07.1941, i.e. after the German attack on 22.06.1941 against the erstwhile ally, the Russians, it also included the Galicia district, i.e. the Polish pre‐war south‐eastern voivodeships. A special criminal law was enacted and applied to Poles and Jews, allowing for the arbitrary administration of the death penalty regardless of the age of the „perpetrator”, and sanctioning the use of collective responsibility. After the end of the military conflict of the World War UU, the government of the Germ. Generalgouvernement was recognized as a criminal organization, and its leader, governor Hans Frank, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and executed. (more on: pl.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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sources

personal:
diasporiana.org.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
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bibliographical:
Hierachy, clergy and employees of the Orthodox Church in the 19th‐21st centuries within the borders of the Second Polish Republic and post–war Poland”, Fr Gregory Sosna, M. Antonine Troc-Sosna, Warsaw–Bielsk Podlaski 2017
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