Kazimierz Dembowski [SEP] religious order
Kazimierz Dembowski
Kazimierz Dembowski (3 August 1912 in Strzyżów – 10 August 1942 at Dachau) was a Polish Roman Catholic clergyman and member of the Society of Jesus involved in the religious publishing industry, who shortly after the German invasion of Poland was arrested by the Gestapo, imprisoned at several places of detention, and lastly deported to the Dachau concentration camp where he was murdered in a gas chamber. He is among 122 Polish martyrs whose beatification process was advanced in 2003.
Life and death.
Dembowski was born in
- Józef Borkowski Dunin (1809-1843)
- Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), composer
- Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), philosopher, journalist and activist
- Piotr Michałowski (1800-1855), painter
- Stanisław Moniuszko (1819-1872), composer
- Stanisław Kostka Potocki (1755-1821), art patron, philosopher and intellectual
- Andrzej Towiański (1799-1878), philosopher and Messianist religious leader
- Kazimierz Władysław Wójcicki (1807-1879)