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Warsaw archdiocese, Poland

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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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SZYSZKO-BOHUSZ

forename(s)

Richard (pl. Ryszard)

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function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Kamianets diocesemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2013.05.23]

Lutsk-Zhytomyr diocese (aeque principaliter)more on
www.catholic-hierarchy.org
[access: 2021.12.19]

academic distinctions

Sacred Theology Candidate

honorary titles

prelatemore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.11.14]

date and place
of death

08.12.1937

SvirLag labour campGULAG slave labour camp network
today: Lodeynoye Polye district, Leningrad oblast, Russia

more on
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[access: 2018.09.02]

alt. dates and places
of death

Levashovoincluding: Levashovo Wilderness
today: neighborhood in Vyborgsky District in Sankt Peterburg, Saint Petersburg city, Russia

more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2022.06.29]

Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
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[access: 2020.07.31]

details of death

During his service in Kiev, suspected of belonging to the Jesuit Order, and from 02.1911 followed by the tsarist authorities.

During the Polish–Russian war of 1919‑1921, during the Russian invasion of Poland in 1920, he left the diocese.

After the Polish victory in the Battle of Warsaw in 08.1920 (known as „Miracle on the Vistula”), he returned, although the diocese remained outside Poland.

Arrested by the Russians in the spring of 1922 together with a group of Catholics accused of „hoarding church valuables and resistance to the confiscation”.

Tortured in prison — had feet burnt.

On 02.09.1922 together with 4 other Polish priests (Fr Felix Lubczyński, Fr Anthony Niedzielski and Fr Valerian Szymański, among them) and a few civilians sentenced in Kamieniec Podolski to death.

The sentence thanks to the intervention of Polish consulate in Kharkiv was however commuted to 5 years in prison.

In 09.1923 ransomed out and released (apparently.

informed his superiors that he had been forced to agree to „voluntary” collaboration with Bolsheviks).

Arrested again in Zinkiv in 1924 but again released.

Finally arrested on 20.10.1929 in Tynno.

In 1930 transferred to Kharkiv prison and then to Kiev.

On 27.07.1930 sentenced by a criminal Russian OGPU Council kangaroo court to 8 years of slave labour.

Jailed in Kotłas on Dźwina river prison and next in 01.1931 in Yaroslav on Volga prison (solitary confinement block).

In 08.1933 deported to SLON slave labour concentration camp on Solovetsky Islands.

In 1937 moved to a prison cell.

There on 25.11.1937 in a bandit trial of Catholic priests sentenced to death by a genocidal Special Council NKVD kangaroo court (known as «NKVD Troika»).

Transported out of Solovetsky Islands and prob. brought to SvirLag concentration camp where was executed in a mass murder — possibly n. Alexander Swirsky monastery where Russians exterminated hundreds of Orthodox priests.

alt. details of death

According to some sources murdered in Sankt Petersburg prison or at Levashovskoye Wilderness, where his body was dumped into a mass grave.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

17.07.1881

Pavlohradtoday: Pavlohrad hrom., Dnipro rai., Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
more on
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1906

positions held

c. 1929

priest — Tynnatoday: Dunaivtsi hrom., Kamyanets–Podilskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Ushytsiadeanery name
today: Stara Ushytsia, Stara Ushytsia hrom., Kamyanets–Podilskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine

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[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

priest — Horodokalso: Horodok–Podilskyi
today: Horodok urban hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine

more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ St Stanislav the Bishop and Martyr RC parish ⋄ Kamyanets–Podilskyitoday: Kamyanets–Podilskyi urban hrom., Kamyanets–Podilskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

c. 1924

priest — Zinkivtoday: Zinkiv hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Letychivtoday: Letychiv hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

from 05.11.1920

chancellor — Diocesan Curia ⋄ Diocesan Curia

from 1920

pro–synodal judge — Bishop's Diocesan Court ⋄ Bishop's Diocesan Court

c. 1917 – c. 1918

administrator — Kamyanets–Podilskyitoday: Kamyanets–Podilskyi urban hrom., Kamyanets–Podilskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish (post–Dominican)Kamyanets–Podilskyitoday: Kamyanets–Podilskyi urban hrom., Kamyanets–Podilskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

administrator — Yarmolyntsitoday: Yarmolyntsi hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Ternopil, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ St Peter and St Paul the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Proskurivtoday: Khmelnytskyi, Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi urban hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

c. 1913 – c. 1916

administrator — Obodivkatoday: Obodivka hrom., Haisyn rai., Vinnytsia, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Michael the Archangel RC parish ⋄ Baltatoday: Balta urban hrom., Podilsk rai., Odessa, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

c. 1911 – c. 1912

vicar — Koretstoday: Korets urban hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2021.12.19]
⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Koretstoday: Korets urban hrom., Rivne rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.12.19]
RC deanery

c. 1910

prefect — Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
more on
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[access: 2023.03.02]
RC deanery — 4th Military gymnasium and military school

c. 1907

student — Sankt Petersburgtoday: Saint Petersburg city, Russia
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.07.31]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Imperial Roman Catholic Spiritual Academy (1842‑1918) — postgraduate specialised studies, crowned with the degree of Candidate of Theology

till 1906

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
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LUBCZYŃSKIClick to display biography Felix, NIEDZIELSKIClick to display biography Anthony, SZYMAŃSKIClick to display biography Valerian, HAŃSKIClick to display biography Stanislav, MADERAClick to display biography Peter, MIODUSZEWSKIClick to display biography Joseph, OPOLSKIClick to display biography Ignatius, SZYMAŃSKIClick to display biography Vaclav, TUROWSKIClick to display biography Maximilian, WORSŁAWClick to display biography John

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

SvirLag: Russian slave labour concentration camp n. Lodeynoye Polye c. 244 km to the north of Sankt Petersburg — part of genocidal Gulag system. Established on 17.11.1931 In former Alexander Svirsky monastery, mainly for political and religious prisoners. In 11.1935 36,500 where held there. The inmates slaved at forest clearance, and some in mines extracting mica, stone and clay. Thousands perished: murdered and exterminated. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2018.09.02]
)

Levashov Wilderness: Russian execution site – c. 20 km from Sankt Petersburg. C. 47,000 victims were murdered there in 1937‑1954, including more than 5,000 Poles. In 1937‑1938 Russians murdered more than 100,000 Poles altogether („Polish holocaust”). (more on: www.zplspb.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.11.14]
)

09.10.1937 judicial murder: On 09.10.1937 a «NKVD Troika» — a genocidal Russian kangaroo court from Sankt Petersburg consisting of three „summary judges” — sentenced to death, at a single stroke of pen, 1,116 Solovetsky Islands concentration camp’s prisoners. 1,111 names are known — they were murdered in Sandarmokh. The names of the genocidal „judges” are also know. It is also known that on 25.11.1937 similar «NKVD Troika» Russian genocidal kangaroo court sentenced to death few remaining in Solovetsky Islands Catholic priests. All in 12.1937 were transported out towards Sankt Petersburg and murdered prob. in SvirLag camp (or in Sankt Petersburg). (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14]
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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.

Sankt Petersburg (Kresty): Russian prison in Sankt Petersburg where many Polish priests were kept captive. Many of them were also murdered there. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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)

SLON‑Lag (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 1936‑1939 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. One source states 83,000 prisoners, of whom c. 43,000 were murdered, including c. 9.500 prisoners in 1937‑1938 who were brought out of the camp and murdered in a number of execution sites, including Sandarmokh, Krasnyi Bor and Lodeynoye Polye. Among them were many Catholic priests. After the National Socialist Party came to power in Germany in 1933, a German delegation visited the SLON camp, to „inspect” Russian solutions and adopt them later in German concentration camps. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Jaroslav on Volga river: Harsh Russian prison for political prisoners — so‑called polit–isolator — where dozens of catholic priest were held by the Russians, mainly in 1930s, before sending them to Solovetsky Islands concentration camp.

Kotlas: Russian investigative and penal prison, at the center of a number of concentration camps (among them KolasLag), a the start of Kotlas–Vorkuta railway line.

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
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)

Kharkiv (prison): Russian criminal prison where in the 1930s a number of Catholic priests were held prior to being sent to Russian concentration camps.

Trial of 02.09.1922: Trial of 5 Catholic priests in Kamieniec Podolski, accused of objecting to church property being confiscated and of treason. All were sentence to death by the Russians. The sentences were subsequently commuted to prison terms and after Polish representatives intervention and payment of extortion tribute by their parishioners all were let off. (more on: pl.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2014.09.21]
)

sources

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[access: 2021.12.19]

bibliographical:
Fate of the Catholic clergy in USSR 1917‑1939. Martyrology”, Roman Dzwonkowski, SAC, ed. Science Society KUL, 2003, Lublin
Parish priest of Lutsk–Żhytomyr 1801‑1920 and Kamyanets–Podilskyi 1869‑1919 dioceses”, Fr Waldemar Witold Żurek SDB, Lublin 2023
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