Edward Kaźmierski was a Polish Roman Catholic resistance fighter born in Poznań in 1919. During the Nazi occupation, he became part of a group known as the "Poznań Five," who engaged in spiritual activities and resisted the occupying forces. His commitment to these causes led to his execution by guillotine at a prison in Dresden on August 24, 1942. He is recognized as one of the 108 martyrs of the Second World War.