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

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Martyrology of the clergy — Poland

XX century (1914 – 1989)

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surname

WOŁOŻYN

forename(s)

Michael (pl. Michał)

function

presbiter (i.e. iereus)

creed

Eastern Orthodox Church ORmore on
en.wikipedia.org
[access: 2014.09.21]

diocese / province

Pińsk‐Polesia OR eparchy (Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PAOC)more on
pl.wikipedia.org
[access: 2021.08.20]

nationality

Belarusian

date and place
of death

10.02.1943

Dubnovichitoday: Soshno ssov., Pinsk dist., Brest reg., Belarus
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[access: 2024.03.15]

alt. dates and places
of death

15.02.1943, 04.1943

details of death

After the German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and the start of World War II, after the German attack on 22.06.1941 against its erstwhile ally, the Russians, and the start of the German occupation, Polesye region and the Pinsk swamps around Pripyat river — his parish was located c. 17 km to the north from the Pripyat river, on its left tributary the First Bobrik river — became an area of intense partisan activity of Russian units (partly composed of soldiers who were not captured by the Germans in 1941, and partly from airdrops). The partisans destroyed bridges, attacked public facilities, etc. In response, the Germans carried out „punitive” actions, hitting villages suspected of supporting the partisans.

According to a report, „in the spring of 1943” one of such units operated near his parish, using it as a source of information and the church tower as an observation point. The Germans were then informed about his activities by one of the inhabitants of the neighboring village of Osnytsia — prob. broke down during torture.

Detained by the Germans, together with his son, by a German unit.

Both were driven through the entire village, towards the bridge over the Bobrik River, and murdered there on the bank.

Then the Germans were to burn the church.

This could have happened on 10.02.1943, when partisans attacked nearby — as recorded in the report of the Polish underground organization — „a coal train with fire from anti–tank guns. 1 locomotive damaged, 4 convoy soldiers, 1 Polish conductor, 1 German railway worker killed, driver's assistant injured”.

alt. details of death

According to other sources, the event could have been part of a punitive expedition to his parish village, which was to take place on 15.02.1943. The Germans shot at the village and set fire to cottages with straw roofs. The inhabitants scattered into the surrounding forests.

The second such punitive expedition took place in 04.1943, when the Germans gathered the inhabitants of the village in its center, arranged them in columns and rushed to the nearby railway station, from where they were sent to forced labor in Germany.

cause of death

mass murder

perpetrators

Germans

presbyter (holy orders)
ordination

1934

positions held

till 1943

parish priest — Dubnovichitoday: Soshno ssov., Pinsk dist., Brest reg., Belarus
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⋄ St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa OR parish ⋄ Pinsk 2nd distr.Orthodox deanery name
today: Pinsk dist., Brest reg., Belarus

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OR deanery — from 13.09.1934 administrator

from 19.04.1934

vicar — Dubnovichitoday: Soshno ssov., Pinsk dist., Brest reg., Belarus
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⋄ St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa OR parish ⋄ Pinsk 2nd distr.Orthodox deanery name
today: Pinsk dist., Brest reg., Belarus

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OR deanery

c. 1934

presbiter (Eng. priest, i.e. iereus) — Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church PACP — priesthood cheirotonia, i.e. ordination

from 27.10.1933

deacon — Lakhvatoday: Lakhva ssov., Luninets dist., Brest reg., Belarus
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[access: 2020.12.11]
⋄ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary OR church ⋄ Luninets 1. distr.Orthodox deanery name
today: Luninets dist., Brest reg., Belarus

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[access: 2021.09.02]
OR deanery

deacon — Zholkinotoday: Lasitsk ssov., Pinsk dist., Brest reg., Belarus
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[access: 2024.03.15]
⋄ Transfiguration of the Lord OR church ⋄ Pinsk 3rd distr.Orthodox deanery name
today: Pinsk dist., Brest reg., Belarus

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[access: 2022.07.16]
OR deanery

married — at least one son

murder sites
camp 
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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 Stanislav 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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sources

personal:
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bibliographical:
Hierachy, clergy and employees of the Orthodox Church in the 19th‐21st centuries within the borders of the Second Polish Republic and post–war Poland”, Fr Gregory Sosna, M. Antonine Troc-Sosna, Warsaw–Bielsk Podlaski 2017

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