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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)

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surname

BOROWIK

forename(s)

John (pl. Jan)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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diocese / province

Mogilev archdiocesemore on
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[access: 2013.06.23]

academic distinctions

Sacred Theology Candidate

date and place
of death

27.08.1937

Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
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details of death

Arrested by the Russians on 31.05.1937 in Minsk together with a larger group of Catholics.

There jailed and tortured.

Accused of leading a clandestine branch of Polish Military Organisation POW (a clandestine Polish organization in Russia active during World War I in 1914‑1918) and spying for Poland.

On 25.08.1937 sentenced — prob. by Russian genocidal «NKVD Troika» kangaroo court — to death — as part of a string of trials of c. 113 Poles.

Murdered by Russians in Minsk prison.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

02.06.1877

Kaunastoday: Kaunas city dist., Kaunas Cou., Lithuania
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1903

positions held

1933 – 1937

administrator — Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
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⋄ St Rock RC church (on „Golden Hill”)Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
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RC deanery

1933 – 1937

administrator — Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
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⋄ Exaltation of the Holy Cross RC church ⋄ Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
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RC deanery — among Polish emigrants and migrants

1929 – 1933

administrator — Syannotoday: Syanno dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Syannotoday: Syanno dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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RC deanery

1925 – 1933

administrator — Talachyntoday: Talachyn ssov., Talachyn dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Orshatoday: Orsha dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.06]
RC deanery

from 1911

administrator — Fashchevkatoday: Fashchevka ssov., Shklow dist., Mogilev reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.22]
⋄ Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Mohylew / Horkideanery names/seats
today: Mogilev reg., Belarus
RC deanery

1905 – 1910

administrator — Piedrujatoday: Piedruja pog., Krāslava mun., Latvia
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⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Dryssa / Siebieżdeanery names/seats RC deanery

1904 – 1905

vicar — Piedrujatoday: Piedruja pog., Krāslava mun., Latvia
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⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Dryssa / Siebieżdeanery names/seats RC deanery

c. 1900 – 1903

student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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⋄ philosophy and theology, Imperial Roman Catholic Spiritual Academy (1842‑1918) — postgraduate specialised studies, crowned with the degree of Candidate of Theology

till c. 1900

student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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⋄ philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary

others related
in death

ANDREKUSClick to display biography Constantine, AWGŁOClick to display biography Peter, FILIPPClick to display biography Adolph, JACZEJKOClick to display biography Anthony, JANUKOWICZClick to display biography Peter, JAROSZEWICZClick to display biography Stanislav, KASZCZYCClick to display biography Adolph, KAZIUNASClick to display biography Paul, PRYTUŁŁOClick to display biography Alexander, RAJKOClick to display biography Stanislav

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

Judicial murders 1937 Minsk: In 1937 and 1938, during so‑called „Polish operation” — Russian genocide of Polish citizens in Russia — In Minsk, more precisely: in Belarus, a number of trials of Poles, accused of membership of Polish Military Organisation POW (a clandestine Polish organization in Russia active during World War I in 1914‑1918) and espionage for Poland. Altogether from 08.1937 till 09.1938 in Belarus 23,429 people, including 21,407 Poles, were arrested. Russian genocidal «NKVD Troika» kangaroo courts had mainly one sentence in their books: death by execution (in Ukraine alone during whole „ Polish operation” 61.77% of sentences were death sentences). Among others on 25.08.1937 in Minsk at least 7 Polish priests were sentenced to death: Fr Constantine Andrekus, Fr Peter Awgło, Fr John Borowikiem, Fr Peter Janukowicz, Fr Anthony Jaczejko, Fr. Alexander Prytułło and Fr Stanislaus Rajko. On 20.10.1937 in Vitebsk Fr. Adolph Fillip was tried. On 22.10.1937 Fr Paul Kaziunas was sentenced. On the same day in Orsha Russians sentenced to death Fr Adolph Kaszczyc. And finally on 03.01.1938 Fr Stanislaus Jaroszewicz was tried. All were murdered in Russian prisons. (more on: pamiec.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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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 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.

Minsk: Russian prison. In 1937 site of mass murders perpetrated by the Russians during a „Great Purge”. After Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II place of incarceration of many Poles, In 06.1941, under attack by Germans, Russians murdered there a group of Polish prisoner kept in Central and co‑called American prisons in Mińsk. The rest were driven towards Czerwień in a „death march” (10,000‑20,000 prisoners perished), into Russia. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.17]
)

sources

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, kresy.genealodzy.plClick to attempt to display webpage
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, biographies.library.nd.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
, archive.todayClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]

bibliographical:
Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‑1939. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
original images:
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