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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

OLECHNOWICZ

forename(s)

John (pl. Jan)

function

presbiter (i.e. iereus)

creed

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

diocese / province

Vilnius OR eparchymore on
ru.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]

Vilnius‐Lida OR eparchy (Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PAOC)more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.04.02]

date and place
of death

05.09.1943

Rakovichitoday: Orlya ssov., Shchuchyn dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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alt. dates and places
of death

1942

Tureisktoday: Orlya ssov., Shchuchyn dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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details of death

During World War I, 1914‐1918, commander of a field telegraph unit in the Imperial Russian Army (before the war worked at a post and telegraph station).

From 1934 ministered in the Shchuchyn district in the Navahrudak voivodship, inhabited mainly by Polish Catholics — and c. +30% Belarusians.

After the German and Russian attack on Poland in 09.1939 and the start of World War II, Shchuchyn found itself under Russian occupation.

After the German attack on 22.06.1941 on their erstwhile ally, the Russians, and the beginning of the German occupation, found itself in the Germ. Generalbezirk Weißruthenien (Eng. General District of Belarus) occupation zone.

There, in the summer of 1942 — after the holocaust of Jews in the genocidal «Aktion Reinhard» — the Germans carried out the so‐called «Polenaktion», i.e. an action that comprised of removing Poles from the civilian apparatus and police of the district and replacing them with Belarusians, and establishing the KL Koldichevo concentration camp, managed by Belarusians — many Polish Catholic priests were murdered there.

At the same time, the fight against the Germans and Belarusians collaborating with them was continued by the Polish resistance Home Army AK (part of the Polish Clandestine State) — which was also forced to fight Russian partisans (mainly Russian soldiers who were not taken prisoner by the Germans in 1941).

The AK attacked the offices of the Arbeitsamt (the employment agency through which the Germans, among other things, implemented the policy of eliminating Poles from the local administration), gendarmerie posts, military and police units, stations and railway lines (through which the Germans transported materials to the Eastern Front), and temporarily occupied entire towns (including Ivyanets, Lipnishki and Astryna in the fall of 1942).

According to Belarusian sources, he and his wife were murdered by some AK unit — the victims were allegedly tortured before death: their ears, noses were cut off, their eyes were gouged out, etc.

According to AK sources, in 08‐09.1943 the Home Army inflicted the following „losses on the enemy” — „German gendarmes killed ‐ 17; Lithuanian gendarmes killed ‐ 22; Soviet (Russian) gendarmes killed ‐ 102; death sentences carried out ‐ 185; German cars destroyed ‐20; attacks on German centers carried out ‐ 3; trains blown up ‐ 3; tracks broken ‐ 1”.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Poles

sites and events

«Polenaktion» 1942Click to display the description, Ribbentrop‐MolotovClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

15.01.1886

Dokshytsytoday: Dokshytsy dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1921

positions held

26.09.1934 – 1943

parish priest — Tureisktoday: Orlya ssov., Shchuchyn dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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⋄ St Nicholas OR parish ⋄ Shchuchynalso: Lithuanian Shchuchyn
today: Shchuchyn dist., Grodno reg., Belarus

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OR deanery

administrator — Rakovichitoday: Orlya ssov., Shchuchyn dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR church ⋄ Shchuchynalso: Lithuanian Shchuchyn
today: Shchuchyn dist., Grodno reg., Belarus

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[access: 2022.09.17]
OR deanery

from 01.1934

parish priest — Ivyanetstoday: Valozhyn dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.12.11]
⋄ St Euphrosyne of Polotsk OR parish ⋄ Valozhyntoday: Valozhyn dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.06]
OR deanery

from 21.07.1930

curatus/rector/expositus — Sorokitoday: Obrub ssov., Hlybokaye dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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⋄ St John the Baptist OR church ⋄ Hlybokayetoday: Hlybokaye dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.10.09]
, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR parish ⋄ Hlybokayetoday: Hlybokaye dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.10.09]
OR deanery — also: prefect at the Union of Lublin's Polish Coeducational Gymnasium of Society for the Support of Secondary Schools

from 11.09.1924

parish priest — Dokudovotoday: Dokudovo 2, Tretyakovtsy ssov., Lida dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR parish ⋄ Lidatoday: Lida dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.29]
OR deanery

c. 1921 – c. 1924

parish priest — Zhizhmaalso: Novaya Zhizhma
today: Lipnishki ssov., Ivye dist., Grodno reg., Belarus

more on
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[access: 2024.01.26]
⋄ Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR parish ⋄ Lidatoday: Lida dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.09.29]
OR deanery

1921

presbiter (Eng. priest, i.e. iereus) — Russian Orthodox Church — priesthood cheirotonia, i.e. ordination

till 1921

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

from 1919

psalmist — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR cathedral church (Theotokos) — pastoral practices

c. 1914 – c. 1918

soldier — Imperial Russian Army

married

sites and events
descriptions

«Polenaktion» 1942: In the summer of 1942 in German‐occupied Germ. Generalbezirk Weißruthenien (Eng. General Region of Belarus) — in Nowogródek region among others — Germans carried out «Polenaktion» initiative: the name introduced in a special resolution drafted by Reichssicherheitshauptamt RSHA (Eng. Reich Main Security Office). The action included sacking of all Poles from civilian regional apparatus and police and replacing them with Belarusians. Thousands of Poles were also forcibly deported to Germany as slave labourers. On 26‐30.06.1942 in all counties of the region more than 1,000 representatives of Polish intelligentsia were arrested and subsequently murdered. In Lida region 16 Polish priests were arrested among others. 5 Polish parish priests from Hlybokaye and Pastavy deanery were murdered as well. At the same time Germans set up KL Koldichevo concentration camp n. Baranavichy. The implementation of this genocide project was entrusted to Belarusian police formations supported by Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian and Russian (RONA) collaborators.

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:
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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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