Roman Catholic
St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland
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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland
XX century (1914 – 1989)
personal data
surname
BLECHMAN
forename(s)
Boleslaus (pl. Bolesław)
function
diocesan priest
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Lutsk-Zhytomyr diocese (aeque principaliter)more on
www.catholic-hierarchy.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
date and place
of death
26.01.1938
Vladikavkaztoday: Vladikavkaz city reg., North Ossetia–Alania rep., Russia
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[access: 2022.07.21]
alt. dates and places
of death
02.11.1937 (after)
details of death
From 1905, during Tsarist times, member of clandestine Polish society „Macierz Polska” and teacher at clandestine Polish schools.
In 1927‑33 apprehended by Russians many times.
Finally arrested by them — on the basis of denouncement that managed to prepare clandestinely 5 men to Catholic priesthood, including Fr Joseph Kowalski and Fr Andrew Rybałtowski — on 29.08.1933 on the way from Krymok chapel back to Kiev.
On the same day Fr Joseph Woronicz was arrested.
Jailed in Kharkiv.
On 07.12.1933 transferred to Kiev prison.
Accused of „nationalist agitation among Polish population in Ukraine and leading preparations for military campaign against Russian authorities”, of passing information about famine in Ukraine (Great Holodomor) to Polish and Vatican officials.
There on 24.02.1934 tried, together with Fr Woronicz, among others, and sentenced to 3 years of slave labour.
On 18.06.1934 transported to KarLag concentration camp, to Dolinskoye village camp.
On 29.05.1936 released, but on 19.06.1936 exiled to Vladikavkaz.
There on 02.12.1936 arrested again, together with two other priests, Fr John Roth (Volga German) and Fr Anthony Czerwiński, and 6 parishioners.
On 17.08.1937 accused of „membership of counter–revolutionay group and spreading of slanderous rumors about the hardship of the peasantry”.
On 02.11.1937 sentenced to 10 years of slave labour.
Fate thereafter unknown — certainly executed, prob. in Vladikavkaz (the date shown is the date of aforementioned Fr Anthony Czerwiński's execution).
alt. details of death
Murdered during „Great Purge” in Russia.
cause of death
murder
perpetrators
Russians
date and place
of birth
1876
Kalvarijatoday: Kalvarija eld., Marijampolė dist., Marijampolė Cou., Lithuania
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
1903
positions held
apostolic administrator {dioc.: Zhytomyr}
1930 – 1933
administrator {parish: Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02], St Alexander the Pope and Martyr; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]}
1927 – 1930
vicar {parish: Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02], St Alexander the Pope and Martyr; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]}
administrator {parish: Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02], St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]}
administrator {parish: Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02], Sacred Heart of Jesus; Greek Catholic}
1923 – 1927
dean {dean.: Radomyshltoday: Radomyshl urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.08.20]}
1923 – 1927
curatus/rector/expositus {parish: Vyshevychitoday: Vyshevychi hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17], Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary; church: Radomyshltoday: Radomyshl urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.08.20]; chapel: Krymoktoday: Radomyshl urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02], St Anthony of Padua; dean.: Radomyshltoday: Radomyshl urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.08.20]}, based at the chapel in Crimea
1923 – 1927
administrator {parish: Vyshevychitoday: Vyshevychi hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17], Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Radomyshltoday: Radomyshl urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.08.20]}
priest {parish: Vyshnivetstoday: Vyshnivets hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17], St Stanislaus the Bishop and Martyr; dean.: Kremenetstoday: Kremenets urban hrom., Kremenets rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.10.18]}, prob.
1920 – 1923
parish priest {parish: Byshivtoday: Byshiv hrom., Fastiv rai., Kiev, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02], Our Lady of the Rosary; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]}
1918 – 1920
priest {Irpintoday: Irpin urban hrom., Buchach rai., Kiev, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17]; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]}
c. 1918
parish priest {parish: Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02], St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]}
1916 – 1917
vicar {parish: Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02], St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]}
1916 – 1917
chaplain {Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02], Imperial Russian Army}
1916 – 1917
military dean {Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02], Imperial Russian Army}
1916 – 1917
prefect {Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02], 4th gymnasium}
1916 – 1917
prefect {Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02], VIII gymnasium}
1916 – 1917
prefect {Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02], Vaclava Peretiakowiczowa's gymnasium for Women}
1914 – 1915
administrator {parish: Motovilyvkatoday: Velyka Motovylivka, Motovilyvka hrom., Fastiv rai., Kiev, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02], St Anne; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]}
1909 – 1914
prefect {Lutsktoday: Lutsk city rai., Volyn, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17], secondary schools}
1906 – 1909
administrator {parish: Volodymyr–Volynskyitoday: Volodymyr, Volodymyr urban hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.07.31], main parish St Joachim and St Anne; dean.: Volodymyr–Volynskyitoday: Volodymyr, Volodymyr urban hrom., Volodymyr rai., Volyn, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.07.31]}
1904 – 1905
vicar {parish: Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17], cathedral St Sophie}
1903 – 1904
student {Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31], philosophy and theology, Imperial Roman Catholic Spiritual Academy (1842‑1918)}
1899 – 1903
student {Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17], philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary}
others related
in death
GRZEGORZEWSKIClick to display biography Stanislaus, KOWALSKIClick to display biography Joseph, LUBOWSKIClick to display biography Bronislaus, MARECKIClick to display biography Bruno, MARKUSZEWClick to display biography, RYBAŁTOWSKIClick to display biography Andrew, WORONICZClick to display biography Joseph, CZERWIŃSKIClick to display biography Anthony
murder sites
camp
(+ prisoner no)
11.08.1937 Russian genocide: On 11.08.1937 Russian leader Stalin decided and NKWD 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: In the summer of 1937 Polish Catholic priests held in Solovetsky Islands, Anzer Island and 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 „Troika NKVD” 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 „Troika NKVD” kangaroo courts.
Forced exile: One of the standard Russian forms of repression. The prisoners were usually taken to a small village in the middle of nowhere — somewhere in Siberia, in far north or far east — dropped out of the train carriage or a cart, left out without means of subsistence or place to live. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20])
KarLag: Russian concentration camp and forced labour camp n. Karaganda in Kazakhstan. One of the largest in Gulag penal system, operational in 1930‑59 (though even later parts of the camp were used as a new concentration camp and prison). Stretched over 300 by 200 km, centered in Dolinka village, c. 45 km from Karaganda. One of the goals was creation a large food base for the developing coal and metallurgical industries of Kazakhstan. 10,000 to 65,000 (in 1949) prisoners — including women and children many of whom perished — were held in the camp at any one time. In total over 1,000,000 inmates slaved in KarLag over its history. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.10.13])
Kiev (Lyukyanivska): Russian political prison in Kiev, in the first half of 20th century run by the genocidal NKVD, informally referred to as prison No 1, formally as Investigative Prison No 13 (SIZO#13). It was founded in the early 19th century. In the 20th century, during the Soviet times, the prison church was transformed into another block of cells. During the reign of J. Stalin in Russia, more than 25,000 prisoners passed through it. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21])
Kharkiv (prison): Russian criminal prison where in the 1930s a number of Catholic priests were held prior to being sent to Russian concentration camps.
sources
personal:
przegladpolskopolonijny.files.wordpress.comClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20], archive.todayClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09], biographies.library.nd.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02], slowopolskie.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02]
bibliograhical:, „Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‑39. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
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