function

presbiter (i.e. iereus)

creed

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

diocese / province

Grodno‐Novogrod OR eparchy (Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church)more on
drevo-info.ru
[access: 2020.09.24]

nationality

Belarusian

date and place
of death

02.07.1944

KL Koldichevoconcentration camp
today: Koldichevo, Haradzišča ssov., Baranavichy dist., Brest reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.01.18]

alt. dates and places
of death

01.07.1944

details of death

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans / Belarusians

sites and events

KL KoldichevoClick to display the description, Help to the JewsClick to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

1905

Kletsktoday: Kletsk dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.08.05]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

23.07.1934

positions held

others related
in death

CHILTÓWClick to display biography Nicholas

sites and events
descriptions

KL Koldichevo: German Germ. Konzentrationslager (Eng. concentration camp) KL and death/extermination camp operational from 03.1942 to 07.1944 in Koldychevo village, 20 km from Baranavichy, in Belarus — to be precise in Germ. Generalbezirk Weißruthenien (Eng. General Districtorate of Belarus), part of the occupation entity called the Germ. Reichskommissariat Ostland (Eng. Reichskommissariat East). Jews and Poles, among others, were held in the camp, which was supervised by several Germans, but the managers, guards and executioners were Belarusians, and the language of orders and commands was Belarusian — the crew were members of the 4th Company of the 13th Belarusian Police Battalion SD (Germ. Weissruthenische Schutzmannschafts Bataillon der SD 13), which was part of the collaborationist Germ. Weißruthenische Hilfspolizei (Eng. Belarusian Auxiliary Police). A crematorium was opened in the camp. It witnessed c. 22,000 victims being murdered and exterminated — men, women, children, old, of various professions and social status, mainly Polish nationals, including c. 24 Catholic priests. Some of them were murdered by deadly gas, prob. in specially equipped trucks (the bodies were subsequently dumped in Lakhivka forest, c. 2 km from the camp). Others were taken to Polonka and murdered there. Victims were also murdered by the Belarusians with a shot to the back of the head or with sticks with protruding nails. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.08.31], www.sztetl.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.12.04])

Help to the Jews: During World War II on the Polish occupied territories Germans forbid to give any support to the Jews under penalty of death. Hundreds of Polish priests and religious helped the Jews despite this official sanction. Many of them were caught and murdered.

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])

sources

personal:
kleck-blago.byClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.02.20], kamensk-eparhiya.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.02.20], oroik.byClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.02.20]
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
original images:
pikabu.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.03.26], oroik.byClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.02.20], pikabu.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2024.03.26], kamensk-eparhiya.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.02.20]