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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

KUKSEWICZ

surname
versions/aliases

KUKSIEWICZ

forename(s)

Francis (pl. Franciszek)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

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

diocese / province

Vilnius archdiocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

Vilnius diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.19]

date and place
of death

27.06.1941

Taklinovoform.: Teklenvil
today: Nikolaevo, Nikolaevo ssov., Shumilino dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus

more on
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[access: 2023.01.18]

alt. dates and places
of death

28.06.1941

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II arrested by the Russians on 22.06.1941 — on the day of German attack of their erstwhile ally, Russians — or few day earlier, on 11.06.1941, together with Fr Stanislav Eliasz.

For a few days held in Berezwecz prison.

Next marched off in so‑called „death marches” east.

After a German aerial bombing raids over a marching, driven towards Witebsk, column of c. 1,500‑4,000 prisoners from Berezwecz (the bombs were not dropped on the column) slaughtered — by machine guns fire — together with Fr Eliasz in a mass genocidal murder of prisoners perpetrated by Russian guards.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

12.10.1887

Paežeriaitoday: Didžioji Riešė eld., Vilnius dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.06.29]

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

12.06.1911 (Vilnius cathedralmore on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]
)

positions held

1937 – 1941

dean — Myorytoday: Myory dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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RC deanery

1937 – 1941

parish priest — Myorytoday: Myory dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Myorytoday: Myory dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2024.03.19]
RC deanery

1916 – 1937

parish priest — Ozerytoday: Ozery ssov., Grodno dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2023.01.18]
⋄ Christ the King and Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary RC parish ⋄ Grodnotoday: Grodno dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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RC deanery

1915 – 1916

parish priest — Gozhatoday: Gozha ssov., Grodno dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Grodnotoday: Grodno dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2023.01.18]
RC deanery

1912 – 1915

vicar — Grodnotoday: Grodno dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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⋄ St Francis Xavier RC parish (main parish)Grodnotoday: Grodno dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2023.01.18]
RC deanery

1911 – 1912

vicar — Krevatoday: Kreva ssov., Smarhon dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.06]
⋄ St John the Apostle and the Evangelist RC parish ⋄ Ashmyanytoday: Ashmyany dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

1907 – 1911

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

others related
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ELIASZClick to display biography Stanislav Avid

murder sites
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Berezwecz-Taklinowo „death march”: After German attack in 06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, in Berezwecz prison (nr 28) Russians murdered some of the prisoners held there — up to c. 800 (earlier, in 1939‑1941, in the same prison Russians murdered c. 500‑800 Poles. The rest were marched off towards Vitebsk. During 120 km long march many prisoners perished from exhaustion, hunger and thirst. Many were killed by Russian guards. On 28.06.1941 after crossing Dzwina river n. Ułła over the bridge that was subsequently destroyed by German bombing planes (the long column of prisoners was not attacked), near Taklinowo kolkhoz (by Nikolayeva village), Russians set machine guns on the remaining prisoners and slaughtered most of them. Survivers were killed off with a shot to head, pierced with bayonets or smashed with gun butts. Altogether c. 1,500–4,000 prisoners, mainly Poles, fell victim to this Russian genocide. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2017.05.20]
)

Berezwecz: In a Basilian monastery in 1939 Russians organised a prison, mainly for Poles. In 06.1941, after German attack, Russians murdered there hundreds of prisoners. Few thousands were marched off and murdered on the way by Russian escort. After German aggression the prison was used by the new aggressors. Inmates were murdered in the monastery itself and in a nearby forest in Borek. C. 27,000 prisoners of different nationalities, mainly Polish citizens, perished. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2012.11.23]
, www.radzima.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.10.05]
)

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
[access: 2021.12.19]
)

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
[access: 2015.09.30]
)

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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[access: 2023.05.28]
)

sources

personal:
www.bialystok.opoka.org.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.10.05]

bibliographical:
Vilnius archdiocese clergy martyrology 1939‑1945”, Fr Thaddeus Krahel, Białystok, 2017
Lexicon of Polish clergy repressed in USSR in 1939‑1988”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
original images:
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[access: 2019.02.02]

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