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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

WĘCKIEWICZ

forename(s)

Peter (pl. Piotr)

function

diocesan priest

creed

Latin (Roman Catholic) Church RCmore on
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[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Vilnius archdiocesemore on
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[access: 2013.05.19]

date and place
of death

19.03.1943

Aukštieji Paneriaitoday: district of Vilnius, Aukštieji Paneriai eld., Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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alt. dates and places
of death

Lyntupytoday: Lyntupy ssov., Pastavy dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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Pastavytoday: Pastavy dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2022.07.16]

details of death

After German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and start of the World War II, after German attack on 22.06.1941 of their erstwhile ally, Russians, after German search of his rectory did not report as requested at police station and went into hiding.

After German took his mother as a hostage came out and in 1942 was arrested by the Germans.

Prob. held in Łyntupy or Postawy prison.

In 03.1943 prob. held in Lukiškės prison in Vilnius.

On 19.03.1943 transported out of prison and prob. murdered at German Ponary death camp.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

date and place
of birth

04.07.1899

(Lithuania territory)today: Lithuania
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presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

06.06.1925

positions held

1940 – 1942

parish priest — Kamaitoday: Kamai ssov., Pastavy dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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⋄ St John the Baptist RC parish ⋄ Švenčionystoday: Švenčionys eld., Švenčionys dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2020.11.13]
RC deanery

1935 – 1940

parish priest — Zadevetoday: village non–existent, Yarevo ssov., Pastavy dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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⋄ Transfiguration of the Lord RC parish ⋄ On–the–Vilniadeanery name
today: Belarus
RC deanery

1932 – 1935

parish priest — Bobrovshchisnatoday: Bobruishchina, Hlybokaye dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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⋄ St Anthony of Padua RC parish ⋄ Hlybokayetoday: Hlybokaye dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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[access: 2021.10.09]
RC deanery — also: auxiliary chaplain of the 7th Battalion of the Border Protection Corps KOP „Podświle

1930 – 1932

parish priest — Mickūnaitoday: Mickūnai eld., Vilnius dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC parish ⋄ Vornyanytoday: Vornyany ssov., Astravyets dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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RC deanery

1927 – 1930

parish priest — Skrundzitoday: Kazlowshchyna ssov., Dzyatlava dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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⋄ St Michael the Archangel RC parish ⋄ Dzyatlavatoday: Dzyatlava dist., Grodno reg., Belarus
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RC deanery

1926 – 1927

vicar — Dunilavičytoday: Dunilavičy ssov., Pastavy dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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⋄ Holy Trinity RC parish ⋄ On–the–Vilniadeanery name
today: Belarus
RC deanery — also: prefect of elementary schools

c. 1926

vicar — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ St Philip and St James the Apostles RC parish ⋄ Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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[access: 2022.01.06]
RC deanery

1925 – 1926

vicar — Luchaitoday: Novoselki ssov., Pastavy dist., Vitebsk reg., Belarus
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⋄ St Thaddeus the Apostle RC parish ⋄ On–the–Vilniadeanery name
today: Belarus
RC deanery — also: prefect of elementary schools

till 1925

student — Vilniustoday: Vilnius city dist., Vilnius Cou., Lithuania
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⋄ philosophy and theology, Theological Seminary

others related
in death

OGANOWSKIClick to display biography Francis, ŚWIRKOWSKIClick to display biography Romualdo

murder sites
camp 
(+ prisoner no)

Paneriai: In 1941‑1944 in Paneriai (pl. Ponary) n. Vilnius Germans murdered c. 100,000 victims, among them 60‑70% Polish Jews and 20% Poles, mainly from intelligentsia, including professors of Stephen Batory University in Vilnius and Polish priests. Executions were carried out mainly by Lithuanian Ypatingasis būrys units, known as Ponary riflemen. The victims were brought on trains or marched on foot from Vilnius. Then they were executed — in stages. Some were forced to wait a dozen or so hours or even days. In the meantime Ponary riflemen beat them up with rubber battons and set dogs on them. Every dozen or so minutes another party of victims were marched into the compound, forced to undress and step into a pre–dug ditch. From there, in group of 10‑12, were dragged out to the a mass grave and shot. The exact number of victims remains unknown — at the end of the war Germans dug out the graves and burnt out most of the bodies. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Vilnius (Lukiškės): Vilnius prison used both by Russians and Germans. Thousands of Poles were kept there. From 2,000 to 16,000 prisoners were jailed at any time there. In 06.1941, after German invasion, Russians murdered most of the prisoners. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Collective responsibility („Hostages”): A criminal practice implemented by the Germans in the occupied territories of Poland, applied from the very first day of World War II. At its core was an appointment and public announcement of a list of names of selected people whose lives depended on absolute compliance with German orders. Any violation of these ordinances, by any person, regardless of the circumstances, resulted in the murder of the designated „hostages”. In the first days of the war and occupation, it was used i.a. by the German Wehrmacht army to prevent acts of continuation of the defense by the Poles. Later, especially in the German–run General Governorate, it was part of the official policy of the occupation authorities — collective responsibility for any acts of resistance to the occupier's practices. For the life of one German, even if death was due to customary reasons, the Germans carried out executions from a dozen to even a hundred Poles previously designated as „hostages”.

Ribbentrop-Molotov: Genocidal Russian–German alliance pact between Russian leader Joseph Stalin and German leader Adolf Hitler signed on 23.08.1939 in Moscow by respective foreign ministers, Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov for Russia and Joachim von Ribbentrop for Germany. The pact sanctioned and was the direct cause of joint Russian and German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of the World War II in 09.1939. In a political sense, the pact was an attempt to restore the status quo ante before 1914, with one exception, namely the „commercial” exchange of the so–called „Kingdom of Poland”, which in 1914 was part of the Russian Empire, fore Eastern Galicia (today's western Ukraine), in 1914 belonging to the Austro–Hungarian Empire. Galicia, including Lviv, was to be taken over by the Russians, the „Kingdom of Poland” — under the name of the General Governorate — Germany. The resultant „war was one of the greatest calamities and dramas of humanity in history, for two atheistic and anti–Christian ideologies — national and international socialism — rejected God and His fifth Decalogue commandment: Thou shall not kill!” (Abp Stanislaus Gądecki, 01.09.2019). The decisions taken — backed up by the betrayal of the formal allies of Poland, France and Germany, which on 12.09.1939, at a joint conference in Abbeville, decided not to provide aid to attacked Poland and not to take military action against Germany (a clear breach of treaty obligations with Poland) — were on 28.09.1939 slightly altered and made more precise when a treaty on „German–Russian boundaries and friendship” was agreed by the same murderous signatories. One of its findings was establishment of spheres of influence in Central and Eastern Europe and in consequence IV partition of Poland. In one of its secret annexes agreed, that: „the Signatories will not tolerate on its respective territories any Polish propaganda that affects the territory of the other Side. On their respective territories they will suppress all such propaganda and inform each other of the measures taken to accomplish it”. The agreements resulted in a series of meeting between two genocidal organization representing both sides — German Gestapo and Russian NKVD when coordination of efforts to exterminate Polish intelligentsia and Polish leading classes (in Germany called «Intelligenzaktion», in Russia took the form of Katyń massacres) where discussed. Resulted in deaths of hundreds of thousands of Polish intelligentsia, including thousands of priests presented here, and tens of millions of ordinary people,. The results of this Russian–German pact lasted till 1989 and are still in evidence even today. (more on: en.wikipedia.orgClick to attempt to display webpage
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Pius XI's encyclicals: Facing the creation of two totalitarian systems in Europe, which seemed to compete with each other, though there were more similarities than contradictions between them, Pope Pius XI issued in 03.1937 (within 5 days) two encyclicals. In the „Mit brennender Sorge” (Eng. „With Burning Concern”) published on 14.03.1938, condemned the national socialism prevailing in Germany. The Pope wrote: „Whoever, following the old Germanic–pre–Christian beliefs, puts various impersonal fate in the place of a personal God, denies the wisdom of God and Providence […], whoever exalts earthly values: race or nation, or state, or state system, representatives of state power or other fundamental values of human society, […] and makes them the highest standard of all values, including religious ones, and idolizes them, this one […] is far from true faith in God and from a worldview corresponding to such faith”. On 19.03.1937, published „Divini Redemptoris” (Eng. „Divine Redeemer”), in which criticized Russian communism, dialectical materialism and the class struggle theory. The Pope wrote: „Communism deprives man of freedom, and therefore the spiritual basis of all life norms. It deprives the human person of all his dignity and any moral support with which he could resist the onslaught of blind passions […] This is the new gospel that Bolshevik and godless communism preaches as a message of salvation and redemption of humanity”… Pius XI demanded that the established human law be subjected to the natural law of God , recommended the implementation of the ideal of a Christian state and society, and called on Catholics to resist. Two years later, National Socialist Germany and Communist Russia came together and started World War II. (more on: www.vatican.vaClick to attempt to display webpage
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sources

personal:
kurierwilenski.ltClick to attempt to display webpage
[access: 2017.06.16]

bibliographical:
Martyrology of the Polish Roman Catholic clergy under nazi occupation in 1939‑1945”, Victor Jacewicz, John Woś, vol. I‑V, Warsaw Theological Academy, 1977‑1981
Vilnius archdiocese clergy martyrology 1939‑1945”, Fr Thaddeus Krahel, Białystok, 2017

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