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Edward Grzymała

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Edward Grzymala
Portrait of Blessed Edward Grzymala
Portrait of Blessed Edward Grzymala
Born September 29, 1906
Kołodziąż, Siedlce County
Residence Włocławek
Died August 10, 1940
Dachau concentration camp, Dachau, Germany
Beatified June 13, 1999, Warsaw, Poland by Pope John Paul II
Feast 12 June

Edward Grzymała (29 September 1906 – 10 August 1940) was a Polish and Roman Catholic priest. He was imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp at Sachsenhausen. He died at the concentration camp in Dachau. In 1999, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II.[1]

See also

  • List of Nazi-German concentration camps
  • The Holocaust in Poland
  • World War II casualties of Poland

References

  1. Back to citation Moroz, Walerian M; Datko, Andrzej (1996). Męczennicy za wiarę 1939-1945: praca zbiorowa (in Polish). Michalineum. ISBN 978-83-7019-133-7.