Kazimierz Aleksander Hamerszmit
Polish priest, Dachau survivor and parish priest of Suwałki
Who they were
Ordained at Łomża in 1939, he was a prisoner in German concentration camps including Dachau from 1940 to 1945, and from 1965 to 1986 was parish priest of St Alexander's in Suwałki, where he died with a reputation for holiness.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The diocese of Ełk records that the diocesan stage of his beatification process ran from 2017 to 2019 and that the Positio on his heroic virtues is now with the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.