Chicago artist among dead in Polish plane crash

CHICAGO (AP) -- One of Wojciech Seweryn's main passions in life was reminding people of the Katyn massacre, a 1940 slaughter that killed thousands of Polish military officials, including his own father.

It was that passion that ultimately led to the 70-year-old Chicago sculptor's death.

Seweryn, a respected artist in the Chicago area's large Polish community, was among the 97 people killed Saturday when the airliner carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashed in western Russia.

Some of the dead, RIP: Lech Kaczyński, the President of Poland

Maria Kaczyńska, the First Lady

Kaczorowski, the last President of the Polish government-in-exile[

Szmajdziński, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm

ładysław Stasiak, Chief of the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland

Szczygło, head of the National Security Bureau Paweł Wypych, Secretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland

Handzlik, Undersecretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland

Kremer, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Franciszek Gągor, Chief of the Polish Army General Staff

Przewoźnik, Secretary-General of the Council for the Defence of the Memory of Struggle and Suffering

Dolniak, member of the Sejm

ław Gosiewski, member of the Sejm

Jaruga-Nowacka, member of the Sejm

Wassermann, member of the Sejm

Deptuła, member of the Sejm

żyna Gęsicka, member of the Sejm

Karpiniuk, member of the Sejm

Natalli-Świat, member of the Sejm

Rybicki, member of the Sejm

Szymanek-Deresz, member of the Sejm

ław Woda, member of the Sejm

Wojtas, member of the Sejm

Fetlińska, member of the Senat

ław Zając, member of the Senat

Kochanowski, Polish Ombudsman

ławomir Skrzypek, President of the National Bank of Poland

Kurtyka, Historian and president of the Institute of National Remembrance

Płoski, catholic bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the Polish Army

Nurowski, President of the Polish Olympic Committee

Rumianek – Rector of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

Bahr, Ambassador of Poland to Russia

Bochenek, Deputy Speaker of the Senat

Admiral Andrzej Karweta, Commander-in-chief of the Polish Navy

Płażyński, President of the Polish Community association

Putra, member of the Sejm

Merta, undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland

Mirosław Chodakowski, archbishop of the Orthodox Church

Pilch, evangelical pastor

Bąkowska, granddaughter of General Mieczysław Smorawiński

Indrzejczyk, chaplain of the president

Lubiński, doctor of the president

ław Lorczak, officer of the BOR

ł Janeczek, officer of the BOR

Michałowski, officer of the BOR Piotr Nosek, officer of the BOR

Surówka, officer of the BOR

ł Krajewski, officer of the BOR

Francuz, officer of the BOR

Uleryk, officer of the BOR

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