Vincent Hadleŭski

Vincent Hadleŭski (, ; November 16, 1888 – December 24, 1942) was a Belarusian Roman Catholic priest, publicist and politician. During World War II he was arrested by the German police on December 24, 1942, and executed in Maly Trostenets extermination camp.

Life Born in the village of Porozowo,

Invasion of Poland In 1939–1940 he edited the collaborationist magazine Bielaruski front and established the Belarusian Independence Party. Hadleŭski's ideology was right-wing conservative and Christian, while most followers of Belarusian nationalism at that time were Marxists, for example, the Belarusian Peasants' and Workers' Union and later the Communist Party of West Belarus.

In June 1940 Vincent Hadleŭski moved to Warsaw where he worked at the German-organized Belarusian Committee. In October 1941 he became chief scholarly inspector of Minsk and organized education processes in the city's primary schools. While doing that, he kept on promoting the idea of Belarusian political independence and organized illegal activity of the Belarusian Independence Party, that later even worked on an anti-German uprising in Minsk.

On December 24, 1942 Vincent Hadleŭski was arrested by the Gestapo and shot in Maly Trostenets extermination camp.