sentences:  When the city was occupied by Soviet forces during World War II his remains were transferred to a family cemetery to save them from profanation, where they remain today.The first Soviet occupation of 1939-41 prevented the nomination of a successor and during the subsequent occupations and destructive policies of Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union the city's 700-year-old Armenian community was completely destroyed.In 2008, the Polish Sejm recognized him as "heroic patriot".