Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer
Nasza Przeszłość

Vol. 81 (1994): Our Past

Articles

Losses of the Catholic Church in the south-west part of the Archdiocese of Vilnius 1939-1944

  • Wojciech Wysocki
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52204/np.1994.81.315-348  [Google Scholar]
Published: 1994-06-30

Abstract

The article concerns Catholics from the south-west part of the Vilnius Archdiocese during the war. The church suffered losses in the part that remained in Poland after 1945 and had 55 parishes, 2 priests died during the war, and during the occupation 7 priests and a theology student, including 3 murdered by the Soviets, the remaining 4 as victims of German policy extermination. 12 priests passed through prisons and concentration camps, including 4 Soviet and 8 German. The greatest damage to church buildings and church property was caused by the fighting in 1941 and 1944. In 1941, the church and chapel burned down, and several others suffered as a result of bombing and artillery fire. In 1944, the Germans blew up eight churches, two of them survived destruction. More than ten churches were seriously damaged and two burned down. War activities and the period of occupation had a severe impact on the property of parishes, monasteries and institutions related to them. This often meant irreversible losses.

References

  1. Dolata B. , Wyzwolenie Polski 1944-1945, Warszawa 1971. [Google Scholar]
  2. Januszek F. , Jawne i tajne szkoły polskie w województwie białostockim w latach II wojny światowej, Białystok 1975. [Google Scholar]
  3. Kamiński M., Białostockaja obłaść, w: Biełaruskaja Sówieckaja encykłapiedyja, t. 2, Mińsk 1970. [Google Scholar]
  4. Kosztyła Z. , Wrzesień 1939 r. na Białostocczyźnie, Białystok 1976. [Google Scholar]
  5. Kosztyła Z., Wyzwolenie Białostocczyzny przez radńecką w 1945 r., Białystok 1964. [Google Scholar]
  6. Kowalczuk J. , Dzieje parafii Tryczówka 1928-1976, Lublin 1984. [Google Scholar]
  7. Krahel T. , Rys historyczny archidiecezji w Białymstoku, w: Spis kościołów i duchowieństwa archidiecezji w Białymstoku, Białystok 1979. [Google Scholar]
  8. Krahel T., Historiografia (archi) diecezji wileńskiej do 1939 r., w: Studia z historii Kościoła w Polsce, t. 5, Warszawa 1979. [Google Scholar]
  9. Paszkiewicz M. Zarys dziejów kościoła św. Wojciecha w Białymstoku 1944-1980, w: „Wiad. Kość. Archidiec. w Białymstoku”, 1980. [Google Scholar]
  10. Płatonow S. , Druga wojna światowa 1939-1945. Zarys wojskowy, Warszawa 1961. [Google Scholar]

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.