Adam Stankievič, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Belarusian politician
Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1892
Place of Birth: Arlianiaty, Vilna Governorate, Belarus
Date of Death: 29-Nov-1949
Profession: politician, historian, Catholic priest, public figure, publisher, opinion journalist, literary scholar
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Adam Stankievič
- Adam Stankievic (Belarusian: ???? ?????????, Polish: Adam Stankiewicz, January 6, 1882 – November 29, 1949) was a Belarusian Roman Catholic priest, politician and writer.
- Stankievic was one of ideologists of the Belarusian Christian democratic movement in the early 20th century. Adam Stankievic was born in Arlianiaty (now in Hrodna Voblast), near Ashmyany.
- In 1914 he graduated from a priest seminary in Vilna (Vilnius in Lithuanian).
- Adam Stankievic was one of the founders of the Belarusian Christian Democratic Union and the Belarusian Christian Democracy.
- He was one of the first priests to use Belarusian language in church services. In December 1919 Adam Stankievic became member of the exiled Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.
- He was an active member of the Belarusian national movement in Poland-controlled West Belarus.
- In 1922 he was elected to the Sejm as member of the Bloc of National Minorities. Unlike his fellow-villager, the notable West Belarusian politician and scientist Jan Stankievic, Adam refused to cooperate with the Germans after their invasion in Poland.
- During World War II he lived in Vilnius where he published Belarusian religious literature.
- At this time Stankievic remained outside of the Belarusian political movement, rejecting any possibility of collaborating with the Nazi Germans.
- In many ways he assisted the anti-German resistance and especially the persecuted Jews whom he often harbored in his church.In 1944 Adam Stankievic refused to flee from Belarus with the retreating German armies.
- He was arrested by Soviet authorities soon after re-installation of Soviet control over Vilnius.
- In 1949 he was sent to the concentration camp in Taishet, Irkutsk oblast, where he died.
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