Omelyan Kovch

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Отець Омелян Ковч

Blessed Оmelyan Kovch (August 20, 1884, Tlumach — March 25, 1944) was a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest murdered in Majdanek concentration camp.

He was born in a peasant family in the town of Tlumach in the Kosiv region of Western Ukraine, and was ordained in 1911 after graduating from the Sts. Sergius and Bacchus College in Rome. He served as a parish priest from 1921 to 1943 at the church of St. Nicholas in the village of Peremyshliany, and was the father of six children.

In the spring of 1943 he was arrested by the Gestapo for harboring Jews, specifically for providing Jews with more than 600 baptismal certificates. On March 25, 1944 he was gassed at Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland.

On September 9, 1999, the Jewish Council of Ukraine awarded him the title of "Ukraine's righteous".

His beatification took place on July 27, 2001 in Lviv, during the Byzantine rite liturgy conducted by Pope John Paul II.

References

Patron Saints Index

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Crimes	Babi Yar Drobytsky Yar Drohobych Kamianets-Podilskyi Lviv pogroms Mizocz Ghetto Odessa Pripyat Swamps

Major perpetrators	Paul Blobel Werner Braune Lothar Fendler Hans Frank Friedrich Jeckeln Ernst Kaltenbrunner Fritz Katzmann Erich Koch Felix Landau Gustav Adolf Nosske Otto Ohlendorf Paul Otto Radomski Otto Rasch Walter Schimana Erwin Schulz Otto Wächter Dieter Wisliceny

Nazi occupation and organizations	Einsatzgruppen General Government Reichskommissariat Ukraine

Collaborators	Individuals Volodymyr Bahaziy Vladimir Katriuk Petro Voinovsky Petro Zakhvalynsky Organizations Schutzmannschaft Ukrainian Auxiliary Police

Ghettos, camps and prisons	Bogdanovka Drohobych Ghetto Syrets concentration camp Vapniarka

Resistance and survivors	Priest's Grotto Syrets inmate revolt

Planning, methods, documents and evidence	Planning Generalplan Ost Volksliste Evidence Graebe affidavit

Concealment and denial	Sonderaktion 1005

War crimes investigations and trials	Einsatzgruppen Trial Extraordinary (Soviet) State Commission

Righteous among the Nations	Saide Arifova Omelyan Kovch Hermann Friedrich Graebe

Memorials	Babi Yar memorials List of Babi Yar victims

See also History of the Jews in Carpathian Ruthenia Transnistria (World War II)

Persondata
Name	Kovch, Omelyan
Alternative names	Kovch, Omelian
Short description
Date of birth	20 August 1884
Place of birth	Tlumach, Ukraine
Date of death	25 March 1944
Place of death	Majdanek concentration camp, Poland

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