Alojzy Liguda

Aloysius Liguda (January 23, 1898 – December 8, 1942), was a priest and is venerated as a blessed martyr of the Society Of The Divine Word Missionaries (SVD).

After validating his secondary education certificate he was accepted to the Polish Philology Faculty at the University of Poznań.

In Poznań he also served a chaplain and religious education teacher at the Ursuline Sisters school for girls.

Liguda and fellow inmates were transported by German soldiers to a nearby water reservoir where they all drowned.

The Germans were conducting medical experiments to determine the effect of ice cold water on the human body, relative to the rescue of downed pilots.

[1] His body was burnt in the Dachau crematorium; the coffin with ashes was handed over to relatives and buried in the family tomb.