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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

GUDAJTYS

forename(s)

Matthias (pl. Maciej)

function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Tiraspol diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]

Sejny diocesemore on
www.catholic-hierarchy.org
[access: 2021.12.19]

nationality

Lithuanian

date and place
of death

1937

alt. dates and places
of death

20.06.1937

Simferopoltoday: Simferopol city rai., Crimea Aut. Rep., Ukraine
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[access: 2020.09.24]

Moscowtoday: Moscow city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31]

details of death

In the fall of 1935, due to mass persecution of Catholic priests in Bolshevik/communist Russia, the last Catholic priest remaining free in Crimea.

On 25.12.1935, arrested by agents of the genocidal Russian organization NKVD.

Accused of „espionage”.

On 11‐17.03.1937 tried along with 15 other people on charges of „belonging to and leading a counter–revolutionary, fascist organization of the Catholic Church” headed by Alexander Frison, bishop and administrator of the Tiraspol diocese — pursuant to Art. 58‐4 and 58‐11 of the Penal Code.

Bishop Aleksander Frison was held in prison in Simferopol, so it can be assumed with a high degree of probability that he was also imprisoned there.

During the investigation allegedly admitted „guilt” that was accused of, but at the trial denied the accusations and explained that did not see anything „counter–revolutionary” in his activities.

The genocidal NKVD kangaroo court known as «NKVD Troika» sentenced him to 10 years of forced slave labor in the Russian Gulag concentration camps (Frison was sentenced to death).

Further fate is unknown, but the trial took place just before the beginning of the «Great Purge» in Russia, the beginning of the greatest intensity of terror should be dated to the summer of 1937 (the central decision of the Russian authorities to start it comes from 02.07.1937, after which on 25.07.1937, by NKVD Executive Order No. 00439, the liquidation of 25,000‐42,000 Germans living in Russia began; 30.07.1937, by the NKVD order No. 00447, the liquidation of „anti–Russian elements” began, and on 11.08.1937, by the NKVD order No. 00485[2], the murder of 139,835 people of Polish nationality). Murdered then.

According to some sources, perished together with Bishop Frison, who was murdered on 20.06.1937 at the cemetery in Simferopol in Crimea (or in the Butyrki prison in Moscow).

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

sites and events

11.08.1937 Russian genocideClick to display the description, Great Purge 1937Click to display the description, Moscow (Butyrki)Click to display the description, GulagClick to display the description

date and place
of birth

29.07.1873

Nendriniaitoday: Sasnava eld., Marijampolė dist., Marijampolė Cou., Lithuania
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positions held

from 1922

parish priest — Sevastopoltoday: Sevastopol city rai., Crimea Aut. Rep., Ukraine
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⋄ RC parish ⋄ Simferopoltoday: Simferopol city rai., Crimea Aut. Rep., Ukraine
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[access: 2020.09.24]
RC deanery

from 1914

curatus/rector/expositus — Yaltatoday: Yalta city rai., Crimea Aut. Rep., Ukraine
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.03.21]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC church ⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Simferopoltoday: Simferopol city rai., Crimea Aut. Rep., Ukraine
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RC deanery — also: 1918‐1920 secretary of the local „Kiborsitile” association of Lithuanians

c. 1912 – c. 1913

priest — Feodosiatoday: Feodosia rai., Crimea Aut. Rep., Ukraine
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⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Simferopoltoday: Simferopol city rai., Crimea Aut. Rep., Ukraine
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.24]
RC deanery — in c. 1907, for health reasons, left the Sejny diocese and went to Crimea

1905 – 1906

curatus/rector/expositus — Wąsosztoday: Wąsosz gm., Grajewo pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC church ⋄ Transfiguration of the Lord RC parish ⋄ Szczuczyntoday: Szczuczyn gm., Grajewo pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
RC deanery

1904 – 1905

vicar — Lachowotoday: Kolno gm., Kolno pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
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[access: 2022.08.05]
⋄ Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Szczuczyntoday: Szczuczyn gm., Grajewo pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
RC deanery

1902 – 1904

vicar — Mały Płocktoday: Mały Płock gm., Kolno pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.07.16]
⋄ Exaltation of the Holy Cross RC parish ⋄ Kolnotoday: Kolno urban gm., Kolno pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
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pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1901 – 1902

vicar — Grajewotoday: Grajewo urban gm., Grajewo pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Szczuczyntoday: Szczuczyn gm., Grajewo pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.06]
RC deanery

1899 – 1901

vicar — Bakałarzewotoday: Bakałarzewo gm., Suwałki pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.09.29]
⋄ St James the Apostle RC parish ⋄ Suwałkitoday: Suwałki city pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.18]
RC deanery

1897 – 1899

vicar — Pajevonystoday: Pajevonys eld., Vilkaviškis dist., Marijampolė Cou., Lithuania
more on
lt.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]
⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Vilkaviškistoday: Vilkaviškis urban eld., Vilkaviškis dist., Marijampolė Cou., Lithuania
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.13]
RC deanery

1891 – 1897

student — Sejnytoday: Sejny urban gm., Sejny pov., Podlaskie voiv., Poland
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en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.28]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

sites and events
descriptions

11.08.1937 Russian genocide: On 11.08.1937 Russian leader Stalin decided and NKVD head, Nicholas Jeżow, signed a «Polish operation» executive order no 00485. 139,835 Poles living in Russia were thus sentenced summarily to death. According to the records of the „Memorial” International Association for Historical, Educational, Charitable and Defense of Human Rights (Rus. Международное историко‐просветительское, правозащитное и благотворительное общество „Мемориал”), specialising with historical research and promoting knowledge about the victims of Russian repressions — 111,091 were murdered. 28,744 were sentenced to deportation to concentration camps in Gulag. Altogether however more than 100,000 Poles were deported, mainly to Kazakhstan, Siberia, Kharkov and Dniepropetrovsk. According to some historians, the number of victims should be multiplied by at least two, because not only the named persons were murdered, but entire Polish families (the mere suspicion of Polish nationality was sufficient). Taking into account the fact that the given number does not include the genocide in eastern Russia (Siberia), the number of victims may be as high as 500,000 Poles. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14]
)

Great Purge 1937: „Great Terror” (also «Great Purge», also called „Yezhovshchyna” after the name of the then head of the NKVD) — a Russian state action of political terror, planned and directed against millions of innocent victims — national minorities, wealthier peasants (kulaks), people considered opponents political, army officers, the greatest intensity of which took place from 09.1936 to 08.1938. It reached its peak starting in the summer of 1937, when Art. 58‐14 of the Penal Code about „counter‐revolutionary sabotage” was passed , which became the basis for the „legalization” of murders, and on 02.07.1937 when the highest authorities of Russia, under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, issued a decree on the initiation of action against the kulaks. Next a number of executive orders of the NKVD followed, including No. 00439 of 25.07.1937, starting the liquidation of 25,000‐42,000 Germans living in Russia (mainly the so‐called Volga Germans); No. 00447 of 30.07.1937, beginning the liquidation of „anti‐Russian elements”, and No. 00485[2] of 11.08.1937, ordering the murder of 139,835 people of Polish nationality (the latter was the largest operation of this type — encompassed 12.5% of all those murdered during the «Great Purge», while Poles constituted 0.4% of the population). In the summer of 1937 Polish Catholic priests held in Solovetsky Islands, Anzer Island and ITL BelbaltLag were locked in prison cells (some in Sankt Petersburg). Next in a few kangaroo, murderous Russian trials (on 09.10.1937, 25.11.1937, among others) run by so‐called «NKVD Troika» all were sentenced to death. They were subsequently executed by a single shot to the back of the head. The murders took place either in Sankt Petersburg prison or directly in places of mass murder, e.g. Sandarmokh or Levashov Wilderness, where their bodies were dumped into the ditches. Other priests were arrested in the places they still ministered in and next murdered in local NKVD headquarters (e.g. in Minsk in Belarus), after equally genocidal trials run by aforementioned «NKVD Troika» kangaroo courts.

Moscow (Butyrki): Harsh transit and interrogation prison in Moscow — for political prisoners — where Russians held and murdered thousands of Poles. Founded prob. in XVII century. In XIX century many Polish insurgents (Polish uprisings of 1831 and 1863) were held there. During Communist regime a place of internment for political prisoners prior to a transfer to Russian slave labour complex Gulag. During the Great Purge c. 20,000 inmates were held there at any time (c. 170 in every cell). Thousands were murdered. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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)

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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