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St Sigismund parish
05-507 Słomczyn
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Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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DUNIN-WĄSOWICZ

forename(s)

Bronislaus (pl. Bronisław)

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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

18.01.1938

Krasnoyarsktoday: Krasnoyarsk city reg., Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
more on
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details of death

After ordination clandestinely crossed Polish–Russian border and returned to his homeland diocese.

In 1925 fined by the Russians for baptising a child before registration in the state's office.

For the first time arrested by the Russians on 29.05.1926, at train station in Klavdiievo, where he built a chapel (c. 20 km from Makariv).

Held prob. in Kiev prison.

Accused of spreading Polish propaganda, anti–Russian agitation and illegally crossing Russian–Polish border.

Prob. released in 12.1926 but in 01.1927 arrested again.

On 27.01.1927 sentenced to years 3 of slave labour.

Transported to concentration camps in Solovetsky Islands.

Slaved in KemLag camp.

In 1929 released but forced to spend 3 years in exile in Siberia.

Left out in Kirensk n. Irkuck.

In 03.1931 arrested again and on 12.06.1931 jailed in Irkutsk prison.

On 01.02.1932 transported to Krasnoyarsk prison.

In 06.1933 released.

On 06.07.1933 deported to Pirowskoye in Krasnoyarsk Krai.

Soon in 05.1935 arrested yet again and held for 10 months in Krasnoyarsk prison.

Released but on 31.03.1936 yet again arrested.

Transferred to Novosibirsk prison.

Accused of membership of Polish Military Organisation POW and spying for Poland.

On 24.06.1936 sentenced to 10 years of slave labour.

In 08.1936 released, totally exhausted and sick with tuberculosis.

There is a version that returned to Podole, to Zhytomyr, without any citizens rights.

For a time was to stay in Woroneż and next in Rostov on Don river, but after a fortnight expelled back to Siberia.

In 08.1937 arrested for the last time.

Again accused of membership of Polish Military Organisation POW (a clandestine Polish organization in Russia active during World War I in 1914‑8).

On 04.01.1938 in Krasnoyarsk tried again and sentenced to death together with Fr Jerome Cerpento.

Murdered by the Russians.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

27.04.1898

Stara Hutatoday: Polivska Huta, Khoroshiv hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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alt. dates and places
of birth

Koszelówkatoday: Zhytomyr, Ukraine

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

20.08.1922 (Lutsktoday: Lutsk city rai., Volyn, Ukraine
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)

positions held

1925 – 1926

administrator {parish: Makarivtoday: Makariv hrom., Bucha rai., Kiev, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.27]
, Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary; chapel: Klavdiievotoday: Klavdiievo–Tarasove, Nemishaieve hrom., Bucha rai., Kiev, Ukraine
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; dean.: Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
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[access: 2023.03.02]
}

c. 1924 – c. 1925

priest {parish: Velidnykytoday: Novi Velidnyky, Slovechno hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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, Holy Trinity; dean.: Ovruchtoday: Ovruch urban hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
}

1923 – 1924

administrator {parish: Ushomyrtoday: Ushomyr hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
, St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor; dean.: Ovruchtoday: Ovruch urban hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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[access: 2021.09.17]
}

1920 – 1922

student {Gnieznotoday: Gniezno urban gm., Gniezno pov., Greater Poland voiv., Poland
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[access: 2021.12.18]
, philosophy and theology, Archbishop's Practical Theological Seminary (Lat. Seminarium Clericorum Practicum); dioc.: Lutsk–Żytomierz}

1919 – 1920

student {Olykatoday: Olyka hrom., Lutsk rai., Volyn, Ukraine
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, philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary; dioc.: Lutsk–Żytomierz}, also for some time in Tarnów Theological Seminary

till 1919

student {Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
, philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary}

others related
in death

CERPENTOClick to display biography Jerome

murder sites
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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]
)

KrasLag: Russian system of distributed concentration and forced labour camps (part of Gulag penal system) — up to 800‑1,000 prisoners each — centered Kansk and later in Reshoty c. 260 to the east of Krasnoyarsk, founded in 1938. The prisoners slaved mainly at forest clearances. The mortality rate among prisoners, the majority of which were political, reached in 1938‑9 and 1941‑5 an annual average of 7‑8% (some were executed). Among prisoners were many Lithuanians (from 1941) and Volga river Germans (from 01.1942). In the 2nd half of 1940s many political prisoners from Ukraine and Belarus were brought in. In 1949‑50 most of the prisoners were relocated to other concentration camps, to SibLag in Kazachstan among others, but KrasLag remained operational at least till 1956. Altogether till 1950 at least 100,000 inmates went through KrasLag. (more on: www.memorial.krsk.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2020.04.04]
)

TayshetLag: In Tajszet, in Irkuck region in Siberia, there was a number of GULAG camps — among them OzerLag and Angartroy — where prisoners slaved mainly at forest clearances. (more on: www.taishet.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2013.08.10]
)

KemLag: Sub–camp of BelBaltLag concentration camp group in Karelia republik, on the shores of White Sea. Many Catholic priests were held captive there on their way to or from Solovetsky Islands concentration camps. (more on: www.gulagmuseum.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20]
)

BelbaltLag: White Sea‑Baltic Sea camp — Russian concentration and forced slave labor camp, under the management of the Gulag camp network (i.e. the genocidal OGPU, and then the NKVD), with the HQ in Medvedevegorsk (then in the Karelo–Finnish rep.) on the White Sea. Established on 16.11.1931, on the basis of the former SLON camp (on the Solovetsky islands). Prisoners slaved on canal construction between the White Sea and the Baltic Sea (the canal itself was opened on.06.1933). Later, prisoners worked in logging forests, in sawmills, in the construction of wood products and paper factories, hydroelectric plants, nickel factories and alcohol distilleries, construction of ports, and laying railway lines. C. 58,965 to 107,900 (1932) prisoners were held in the camp at one time —–e.g. in 1938, there were 3,946 women among them. According to official data, 12,300 perished during the construction of the canal itself — according to unofficial data, from 50,000 to 300,000. One of head managers of the construction of the canal was a Jew, Naftali Frenkel, who went down in history as the author of the principle„We have to squeeze everything out of the prisoner in the first three months — then nothing is there for us”. He was to be the creator, according to Solzhenitsyn, of the so–called „Boiler system”, i.e. the dependence of food rations on working out a certain percentage of the norm. The term ZEK — i.e. prisoner – canal soldier (Rus. заключенный–каналоармец) — was coined in the camp, which was adopted to mean a prisoner in Russian slave labor camps. The camp operated until 18.09.1941, and the entire project — in economic terms — turned out to be a total failure. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.05.09]
)

Solovetsky Islands: Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp SLON (ros. Солове́цкий ла́герь осо́бого назначе́ния) — Russian concentration camp and forced labour camp, on Solovetsky Islands, in operation from 1923 and initially founded on the site of famous former Orthodox monastery. Functioned till 1939 (in 1936‑9 as a prison). In 1920 the largest concentration camp in Russia. Place of slave labour and murder of hundreds of mainly Christian, including Catholic, priests, especially in 1920s and 1930s. The concept of future Russian slave labour concentration camps system Gulag its beginnings prob. can trace to camps of Solovetsky Islands — from there spread to the camps along Belamor canal (Baltic Sea — White Sea), and from there to all regions of Russian state. From the network of camps on Solovetsky Islands — also called Solovetsky Archipelago — Alexander Solzhenitsyn prob. formed his famous term of „Gulag Archipelago”. It is estimated that tens to hundreds of thousands prisoners were held in Solovetsky Islands camps. In 1937‑8 c. 9.500 prisoners were brought out of the camp and murdered in a number of execution sites, including Sandarmokh and Lodeynoye Polye, including many Catholic priests. (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
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bibliograhical:, „Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‑39. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin,
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