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

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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  • GLECZMAN Joseph (Fr Camille of St Sylvestre), source: www.kchodorowski.republika.pl, own collection; CLICK TO ZOOM AND DISPLAY INFOGLECZMAN Joseph (Fr Camille of St Sylvestre)
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surname

GLECZMAN

forename(s)

Joseph (pl. Józef)

religious forename(s)

Camille of St Sylvestre (pl. Kamil od św. Sylwestra)

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function

religious cleric

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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congregation

Order of Discalced Carmelites OCDmore on
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(i.e. Discalced Carmelites, Barefoot Carmelites)

diocese / province

Lutsk diocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]

date and place
of death

07.02.1944

Vyshnivets Novytoday: Vyshnivets, Vyshnivets hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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alt. dates and places
of death

21.02.1944 (c.)

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after start of Russian occupation, together with Bro John Lasoń evicted initially by mutinied Ukrainians and then by the Russians from the monastery in Vyshnivets Novyi.

Did not leave Vyshnivets.

Survived deportation of Poles to Siberia.

Forced to pay exorbitant taxes.

In 06.1960 expelled from centre of Vyshnivets.

Settled in the outskirts.

After German attack of Russians in 06.1941 returned to the monastery.

Murdered during the «Genocidium Atrox» genocide perpetrated by Ukrainians, known also as „Volyn genocide”, after abandoning on 06.02.1940 of the monastery by Hungarian troops and when next day the monastery was attacked by the genocidal Ukrainian OUN/UPA organization and massacred Polish refugees from the surrounding area hiding in the monastery, after the insidious intrusion into the monastery.

Dragged by genocidal Ukrainian OUN/UPA into the basement and murdered there.

Fr John Lasoń was also slaughtered.

Altogether Ukrainians murdered c. 300 Poles, including c. 50 women and children herded by the genocidal OUN/UPA murderers into another basement and then slaughtered with grenades thrown into it. At the same time genocidal OUN/UPA killed c. 140 Poles in Wiśniowiec itself.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Ukrainians

date and place
of birth

27.06.1909

Polanka Wielkatoday: Polanka Wielka gm., Oświęcim pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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religious vows

28.07.1927/8 (temporary)

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

29.06.1933 (Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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)

positions held

1939 – 1944

superior — Vyshnivets Novytoday: Vyshnivets, Vyshnivets hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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⋄ monastery, Discalced Carmelites OCD

1939 – 1944

curatus/rector/expositus — Vyshnivets Novytoday: Vyshnivets, Vyshnivets hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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⋄ St Michael the Archangel RC church ⋄ Wiśniowiec Starytoday: Vyshnivets hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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, St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Kremenetstoday: Kremenets urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.10.18]
RC deanery

1936 – 1939

friar — Vyshnivets Novytoday: Vyshnivets, Vyshnivets hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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⋄ monastery, Discalced Carmelites OCD — also: prefect of elementary schools and minister

c. 1938

friar — Lublintoday: Lublin city pov., Lublin voiv., Poland
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⋄ monastery, Discalced Carmelites OCD — acting („ad interim”)

1934 – 1936

friar — Czernatoday: Krzeszowice gm., Kraków pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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⋄ monastery, Discalced Carmelites OCD — minister, second councillor and Holy Mass procurator (treasury officer)

1933 – 1934

friar — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ monastery, Discalced Carmelites OCD — post–graduate theology studies, culminating in the exam „Ex universa theologia” (Eng. „entire theologia”)

till 1933

student — Krakówtoday: Kraków city pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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⋄ Theological College, monastery (at Rakowiecka Str.), Discalced Carmelites OCD

27.07.1926 – 28.07.1927

novitiate — Czernatoday: Krzeszowice gm., Kraków pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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⋄ monastery, Discalced Carmelites OCD

1926

accession — Discalced Carmelites OCD

1922 – 1926

pupil — Wadowicetoday: Wadowice gm., Wadowice pov., Lesser Poland voiv., Poland
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⋄ Minor Seminary (gymnasium), Discalced Carmelites OCD

others related
in death

CIESIELSKIClick to display biography Francis, LASOŃClick to display biography John (Bro. Cyprian of st Michael)

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«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]
)

06.1941 massacres (NKVD): After German attack of Russian‑occupied Polish territory and following that of Russia itself, before a panic escape, Russians murdered — in accordance with the genocidal order issued on 24.06.1941 by the Russian interior minister Lawrence Beria to murder all prisoners (formally „sentenced” for „counter–revolutionary activities”, „anti–Russian acts”, sabotage and diversion, and political prisoners „in custody”), held in NKVD‑run prisons in Russian occupied Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — c. 40,000‑50,000 prisoners. In addition Russians murdered many thousands of victims arrested after German attack regarding them as „enemies of people” — those victims were not even entered into prisons’ registers. Most of them were murdered in massacres in the prisons themselves, the others during so‑called „death marches” when the prisoners were driven out east. After Russians departure and start of German occupation a number of spontaneous pogroms of Jews took place. Many Jews collaborated with Russians and were regarded as co‑responsible for prison massacres. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Deportations to Siberia: In 1939‑1941 Russians deported — in four large groups in: 10.02.1940, 13‑14.04.1940, 05‑07.1940, 05‑06.1941 — up to 1 mln of Polish citizens from Russian occupied Poland to Siberia leaving them without any support at the place of exile. Thousands of them perished or never returned. The deportations east, deep into Russia, to Siberia resumed after 1944 when Russians took over Poland. (more on: en.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 Stanislaus 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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)

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

sources

personal:
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[access: 2013.01.13]
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[access: 2014.09.21]
, www.katolicki.netClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.12.10]
, pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]

bibliographical:
Biographical lexicon of Lviv Roman Catholic Metropoly clergy victims of the II World War 1939‑1945”, Mary Pawłowiczowa (ed.), Fr Joseph Krętosz (ed.), Holy Cross Publishing, Opole, 2007
original images:
www.kchodorowski.republika.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.05.19]
, www.stowarzyszenieuozun.wroclaw.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.01.16]
, www.miejscapamiecinarodowej.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.22]

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