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
BOROWIK
forename(s)
John (pl. Jan)
function
diocesan priest
creed
Latin (Roman Catholic) Churchmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]
diocese / province
Mogilev archdiocesemore on
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[access: 2013.06.23]
academic distinctions
Candidate of Holy Theology
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 1914‑8) and spying for Poland.
On 25.08.1937 sentenced — prob. by Russian genocidal „Troika NKVD” 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
parish priest {parish: Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
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[access: 2020.07.31], Holy Trinity – Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – St Rock; Gold Hill}
1933 – 1937
administrator {Minsktoday: Minsk city reg., Belarus
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[access: 2020.07.31]; church: Exaltation of the Holy Cross; Calvary cemetery}
1929 – 1933
administrator {parish: Syannotoday: Syanno dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.02.04], Holy Trinity; dean.: Syannotoday: Syanno dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.02.04]}
1925 – 1933
administrator {parish: Talachyntoday: Talachyn ssov., Talachyn dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.07.21], St Anthony of Padua; dean.: Siennotoday: Sienno gm., Lipsko pow., Masovia voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.09.29]}
from 1911
administrator {parish: Fashchevkatoday: Fashchevka ssov., Shklow dist., Mogilev reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.22], Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Mohylew / Horkideanery names/seats
today: Mogilev reg., Belarus}
1905 – 1910
administrator {parish: Piedrujatoday: Piedruja pog., Krāslava mun., Latvia
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[access: 2022.06.29], main parish Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Dryssa / Siebieżdeanery names/seats}
1904 – 1905
vicar {parish: Piedrujatoday: Piedruja pog., Krāslava mun., Latvia
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[access: 2022.06.29], main parish Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; dean.: Dryssa / Siebieżdeanery names/seats}
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)}
till c. 1903
student {Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31], 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 Stanislaus, KASZCZYCClick to display biography Adolph, KAZIUNASClick to display biography Paul, PRYTUŁŁOClick to display biography Alexander, RAJKOClick to display biography Stanislaus
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 I World War in 1914‑8) and espionage for Poland. Altogether from 08.1937 till 09.1938 in Belarus 23,429 people, including 21,407 Poles, were arrested. Russian genocidal „Troika NKVD” 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
[access: 2019.02.02])
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.
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 II World War 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
personal:
www.ofiaryterroru.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2019.02.02], katolicy1844.republika.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2021.12.19], kresy.genealodzy.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2022.06.30], biographies.library.nd.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20], archive.todayClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]
bibliograhical:, „Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‑39. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin,
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