function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Vilnius archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]
Military Ordinariate of Polandmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.12.20]

date and place
of death

21.01.1951

IntaLag labour campGULAG slave labour camp network
today: Inta, Komi rep., Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.01.09]

alt. dates and places
of death

23.01.1951

details of death

cause of death

extermination: murder / exhaustion

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

05.05.1906

Pyerasvyatoyetoday: Pyerasvyatoye ssov., Rechytsa dist., Gomel reg., Belarus
more on
be.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.01.18]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

04.06.1933 (St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist church in Vilniusmore on
www.diecezjaplocka.pl
[access: 2013.05.19])

positions held

others related
in death

RAKICKASClick to display biography Joseph

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

IntaLag: Russian concentration camp and forced labour camp, part of GULAG penal system, in the Komi republic (beyond Arctic Circle) — created from a number of camps of VorkutLag concentration camp comples, aimed at exploration and mining of coal deposits n. Inta. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17])

VorkutLag: Russian complex of concentration camps and forced labour camp (part of Gulag penal system), near Vorkuta in Komi republic, created on 10.15.1938 — as a result of the split of larger UktpechLag complex of camps — where Russians held many Poles prisoners. Up to 75,000 (at peak — in 1950‑1 — c. 100,000) prisoners slaved there mainly in coal mines. In the most tragic 1943 c. 15.5% of prisoners held in the camp perished. Total number of victims of Vorkuta camps remains unknown. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09])

Gulag: Network of Russian slave labour concentration camps. At any given time up to 12 mln inmates where held in them, milions perished. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09])

Vilnius (Lukishki): Vilnius prison used both by Russians and Germans. Thousands of Poles were kept there. From 2,000 to 16,000 prisoners were jailed at any time there. In 06.1941, after German invasion, Russians murdered most of the prisoners. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.07.04])

Help to the Jews: During II World War 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. (more on: www.naszdziennik.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.31])

Pravieniškės: Harsh slave labour (concentration) camp — also a transit camp prior to transfer to other concentration camps — mainly for Poles and Jews in Lithuania organised by Russians, then taken over by Germans and run by Lithuanians (from 11.1943 subcamp of KL Kauen concentration camp). In 06.1941 when escaping from approaching Germans Russians murdered most of its prisoners. Numer of professors of Stephen Batory University in Vilnius (including members of its Theological Department) were held there, as well as clerics and priests from Catholic theological seminaries. On 15.09.1943 more then 100 Polish hostages were brought there — part of reprisals after execution of Polish independence Home Army AK unit (part of Polish Clandestine State) on German agent. It operated as a correctional camp after the end of II World War hostilies and start of Russian occupation of Lithuania as well. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.10.05])

Liškiava: In Liškiava, a village on the right bank of the Nemunas, which was the border between Poland and Lithuania until 1939, on the Lithuanian side, prob. in the former Dominican monastery — in which in the XIX century the occupying Russian authorities (after partitions of Poland) organized a place of internment for the so‑called „wicked priests” from all of the then Russian–run Kingdom of Poland — Lithuanians organized an internment camp for Polish priests. It functioned until 04.1940, when the Russian occupation of Lithuania began.

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 II World War 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
[access: 2015.09.30])

sources

personal:
www.bialystok.opoka.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.01.06], www.katolicy.euClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19]
bibliograhical:, „Vilnius archdiocese clergy martyrology 1939‑1945”, Fr Thaddeus Krahel, Białystok, 2017,
original images:
www.bialystok.opoka.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.01.06], www.katedrapolowa.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.01.16], ipn.gov.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02]