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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)
personal data
surname
GASZYŃSKI
forename(s)
Leonard
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]
honorary titles
Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian Empire) 3rd classmore on
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[access: 2019.10.13]
date and place
of death
12.10.1937
Kharkivtoday: Kharkiv urban hrom., Kharkiv rai., Kharkiv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.08.05]
details of death
For the first time arrested by the Russias on 03.01.1921, during the great repatriations of Poles from Bolshevik Russia to Poland as a result of the Russian defeat in the Polish–Russian war of 1919‑1921 — in the final months of peace negotiations, that ended on 18.03.1921 with a peace treaty signed in Riga. Accused of „meeting with Polish delegation with espinage intent”. On 03.02.1921 however released.
After starting ministry in Kharkiv, constantly followed by the Russian authorities and several times evicted from his apartment. Finally, settled at the Emergency Medical Services Institute.
Arrested again on 12.08.1937 in Kharkiv — together with his sister, cleaner woman in the church and entire parish council (c. 20 people) — on the basis of order No 00485 of 11.08.1937 of the Kharkiv branch of the genocidal Russian NKVD organization, and charged with „active participation in the counter–revolutionary organization, operating at the Kharkiv church, and espionage for Polish intelligence”. Held in Kharkiv prison.
On 24.09.1937 sentenced by Russian genocidal kangaroo „Troika NKVD” court to death.
Murdered in prison, together with 11 parishioners, including at least 9 women.
At that time, was the last Catholic priest in Kharkiv. After his murder, the Russians shut down the temple, robbed its contents and liquidated the parish. 50 people then, mostly prob. Poles, signed a petition to create a new Catholic parish. Prob. all were soon arrested and murdered.
cause of death
mass murder
perpetrators
Russians
date and place
of birth
1867
Chotajewiczetoday: Oktyabr, Oktyabr ssov., Lahoysk dist., Minsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2023.01.18]
presbyter (holy orders)
ordination
1893
positions held
1927 – 1937
vicar general {(Kharkiv Oblast)today: Kharkiv, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.07.31]}, appointment „held in secret”
1927 – 1937
parish priest {parish: Kharkivtoday: Kharkiv urban hrom., Kharkiv rai., Kharkiv, Ukraine
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[access: 2022.08.05], Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary}
c. 1922 – 1927
administrator {parish: Lugatoday: Luga urban, Luga reg., Leningrad oblast, Russia
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[access: 2022.07.16], St Nicholas}
1919 – 1921
administrator {parish: Mogilevtoday: Mogilev dist., Mogilev reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.01.06], St Casimir}
1902 – 1919
administrator {parish: Kronstadttoday: part of Sankt Petersburg, Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2022.01.06], St Peter and St Paul the Apostles}, also: Catholic chaplain of the Navy and the land forces of the Russian Empire (mainly among Poles), prefect at the Maritime Engineering School, Maritime Surgeons School, real–school and gymnasiums for boys and girls
1899 – 1902
administrator {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}, also: prefect of gymnasiums for boys and girls, real–school and elementary schools; 1897‑1900 chaplain of the Roman Catholic Charitable Society
1893 – 1899
chaplain {to Archbishop Simon Martin Kozłowski, Metropolitan of Mogilev}
1888 – 1893
student {Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
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[access: 2020.07.31], philosophy and theology, Metropolitan Theological Seminary}
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.
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:
biographies.library.nd.eduClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20], www.radzima.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20], rkc.kh.uaClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.12.20], czasopisma.upjp2.edu.plClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2023.09.10], ru.openlist.wikiClick 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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