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XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

WORONICZ

forename(s)

Joseph (pl. Józef)

function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[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

1937

alt. dates and places
of death

30.03.1937 (after)

Kerchtoday: Kerch city rai., Crimea Aut. Rep., Ukraine
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[access: 2022.08.05]

details of death

In c. 1910 expelled by Russian Tsarist authorities from Hnevan parish for refusal to sanction mixed Catholic–Orthodox marriage.

Arrested by the Russians on c. 25.04.1929 (together with c. 17 other Catholic priests).

Pressured to pay up 1,000 ruble tribute.

Not being able all his personal belongings got confiscated.

Then in 01.1930 released.

Since then lived in penury — together with his aged mother — especially during genocidal famine in Ukraine.

Arrested again on 29.08.1933, in his Buchky parish or in Malin parish, in a group of Catholic priests (with Fr Boleslav Blechman, among others).

Held in Kharkiv and next from c. 07.12.1933 in Kiev prisons.

Tortured.

On 24.09.1934 for „nationalist agitation among Polish population in Ukraine and leading preparations for military campaign against Russian authorities”, of „passing information about famine in Ukraine (Great Holodomor) to Polish and Vatican officials”, sentenced to 3 years of slave labour by a criminal Russian OGPU Council kangaroo court.

Jailed in Yaroslav prison and next transported to Russian KarLag slave labour concentration camp n. Karaganda.

In 08.1936 was in exile in Sevastopol in Crimea.

Released on 04.12.1936.

From 12.1936 was in Kerch in Crimea where in 1937 (information dated 28.06.1938) was arrested again and sentenced.

Murdered in unknown circumstances.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Russians

date and place
of birth

28.08.1882

Nosivtsitoday: Nosivtsi hrom., Haisyn rai., Vinnytsia, Ukraine
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alt. dates and places
of birth

Kosowce
Noskivtsitoday: Noskivtsi hrom., Zhmerynka rai., Vinnytsia, Ukraine
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1907

positions held

1925 – 1933

priest — Buchkytoday: Malyn urban hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
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ru.wikipedia.org
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Radomyshltoday: Radomyshl urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
RC deanery

till c. 1933

priest — Ushomyrtoday: Ushomyr hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Nicholas the Bishop and Confessor RC parish ⋄ Ovruchtoday: Ovruch urban hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

till c. 1933

priest — Velidnykytoday: Novi Velidnyky, Slovechno hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Ovruchtoday: Ovruch urban hrom., Korosten rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

till c. 1933

priest — Yemilchynetoday: Yemilchyne hrom., Zviahel rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Our Lady of Perpetual Help RC parish ⋄ Novohrad–Volynskyitoday: Zviahel, Zviahel urban hrom., Zviahel rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

till c. 1933

priest — Barashitoday: Barashi hrom., Zviahel rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Novohrad–Volynskyitoday: Zviahel, Zviahel urban hrom., Zviahel rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

deputy dean — Skvyratoday: Skvyra urban hrom., Bila Tserkva rai., Kiev, Ukraine
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[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

administrator — Didivshchynatoday: Didivshchyna hrom., Fastiv rai., Kiev, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Skvyratoday: Skvyra urban hrom., Bila Tserkva rai., Kiev, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

administrator — Novoselytsyatoday: Popilnia hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.20]
⋄ St George the Martyr RC parish ⋄ Skvyratoday: Skvyra urban hrom., Bila Tserkva rai., Kiev, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

c. 1923 – c. 1925

administrator — Khodorkivtoday: Popilnia hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Cajetan the Confessor RC parish ⋄ Skvyratoday: Skvyra urban hrom., Bila Tserkva rai., Kiev, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

c. 1923

administrator — Brusylivtoday: Brusyliv hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ Holy Spirit RC parish ⋄ Radomyshltoday: Radomyshl urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]
RC deanery — acting („ad interim”)

administrator — Toporytoday: Ruzhyn hrom., Berdychiv rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Skvyratoday: Skvyra urban hrom., Bila Tserkva rai., Kiev, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

c. 1920 – c. 1921

administrator — Lishchyntoday: Stanyshivka hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

c. 1920

priest — Khodorkivtoday: Popilnia hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Cajetan the Confessor RC parish ⋄ Skvyratoday: Skvyra urban hrom., Bila Tserkva rai., Kiev, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2020.11.27]
RC deanery

c. 1918

administrator — Yalovychitoday: Yaroslavychi hrom., Dubno rai., Rivne, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Lutsktoday: Lutsk city rai., Volyn, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

c. 1915

curatus/rector/expositus — Tereshkytoday: Antoniny hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
uk.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ St Casimir the Prince and Confessor RC church ⋄ Bazaliyatoday: Teofipol hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
, Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ Starokostiantynivtoday: Starokostiantyniv urban hrom., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi rai., Proskuriv/Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

c. 1910 – c. 1915

vicar — Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ St Sophie RC cathedral church

1909 – 1910

vicar — Hnivan–Vitavatoday: Hnivan, Hnivan urban hrom., Vinnytsia rai., Vinnytsia, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ St Joseph Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Vinnytsiatoday: Vinnytsia urban hrom., Vinnytsia rai., Vinnytsia, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
RC deanery

c. 1907 – 1909

student — Innsbrucktoday: Innsbruck–Land dist., Upper Austria state, Austria
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2024.03.19]
⋄ theology, Leopold and Francis University

till c. 1907

student — Zhytomyrtoday: Zhytomyr urban hrom., Zhytomyr rai., Zhytomyr, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.09.17]
⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

student — Kievtoday: Kiev city rai., Kiev city, Ukraine
more on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2023.03.02]
⋄ Kiev University

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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
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)

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.

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
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KarLag: Russian concentration camp and forced labour camp n. Karaganda in Kazakhstan. One of the largest in Gulag penal system, operational in 1930‑1959 (though even later parts of the camp were used as a new concentration camp and prison). Stretched over 300 by 200 km, centered in Dolinka village, c. 45 km from Karaganda. One of the goals was creation a large food base for the developing coal and metallurgical industries of Kazakhstan. 10,000 to 65,000 (in 1949) prisoners — including women and children many of whom perished — were held in the camp at any one time. In total over 1,000,000 inmates slaved in KarLag over its history. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Gulag: The acronym Gulag comes from the Rus. Главное управление исправительно–трудовых лагерей и колоний (Eng. Main Board of Correctional Labor Camps). The network of Russian concentration camps for slave labor was formally established by the decision of the highest Russian authorities on 27.06.1929. Control was taken over by the OGPU, the predecessor of the genocidal NKVD (from 1934) and the MGB (from 1946). Individual gulags (camps) were often established in remote, sparsely populated areas, where industrial or transport facilities important for the Russian state were built. They were modeled on the first „great construction of communism”, the White Sea–Baltic Canal (1931‑1932), and Naftali Frenkel, of Jewish origin, is considered the creator of the system of using forced slave labor within the Gulag. Up to 12 mln prisoners were held there at one time, i.e. c. 5% of Russia's population. In his book „The Gulag Archipelago”, Alexander Solzhenitsyn estimated that c. 60 mln people were killed in the Gulag until 1956. Formally dissolved on 20.01.1960. (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.

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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sources

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[access: 2014.12.20]
, catholic.ruClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2016.03.14]

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