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Eugene Lazowski born Eugeniusz Sławomir Łazowski (1913 in Częstochowa, Poland – December 16, 2006 in Eugene, Oregon, United States) was a Polish medical doctor who saved thousands of people during World War II by creating a fake epidemic which played on German phobias about hygiene. He also used his position as a doctor treating people ...
The Warsaw Ghetto (German: Warschauer Ghetto, officially Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau, ' Jewish Residential District in Warsaw '; Polish: getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust.
Cages with typhus-carrying lice strapped onto a person's thigh. During World War II, feeding the lice with human subjects' blood was the only way to produce a viable typhus vaccine. A louse-feeder was a job in interwar and Nazi-occupied Poland, at the Lviv Institute for Study of Typhus and Virology and the associated Institute in Kraków, Poland.
Image credits: historymemeshq American history writer and author of Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund, Arnie Bernstein, also agrees that comedy and ...
When typhus began to spread among the Jewish population of Warsaw in the spring of 1940, she focused her efforts on combating the epidemic. She implemented many measures that she had successfully applied between 1920 and 1921. [ 21 ]
The first ghetto of World War II was established on 8 October 1939 at Piotrków Trybunalski (38 days after the invasion), [10] with the Tuliszków ghetto established in December 1939. The first large metropolitan ghetto known as the Łódź Ghetto (Litzmannstadt) followed them in April 1940, and the Warsaw Ghetto in October. Most Jewish ghettos ...
He established the department of histology and embryology at the University of Warsaw in 1933. During World War II, he took part in the defense of Warsaw and was captured and imprisoned in Pawiak. He was released into the Warsaw Ghetto where he organized a sanitary preparation course against epidemics such as typhus which were feared by the ...
The destruction of Warsaw was practically unparalleled in the Second World War, with it being noted that "Perhaps no city suffered more than Warsaw during World War II", with historian Alexandra Richie stating that "The destruction of Warsaw was unique even in the terrible history of the Second World War". [1]