Eugene Lazowski

Eugene Lazowski

Dr. Eugene Lazowski (1913–2006-12-16) was a Polish doctor, who served in the Polish Army, Polish Underground Army and Red Cross.

Lazowski saved the lives of about 8,000 Jews in the town of Rozwadow as well as surrounding villages by creating a fake typhus epidemic during World War II. He used medical science to save Jews and other Poles from being deported to the Nazi concentration camps. His medical school friend Stanislaw Matulewicz discovered that by injecting a healthy person with weakened typhus bacteria, the person would test positive to epidemic typhus without experiencing the symptoms.

Germans were terrified of the disease because they were highly susceptible to it.Fact|date=November 2007 Those infected with typhus were not sent to concentration camps because the disease was highly contagious. When a sufficient number of people were infected, the Germans would quarantine the area. The Germans would not enter the area, fearing the disease would spread to them also.

In this way, Lazowski and Matulewicz were able to spare 8,000 people from 12 ghettos from further harassment, executions, and deportation to concentration camps.

A documentary is in the making about Dr. Eugene Lazowski. It is to be entitled "A Private War" and is being filmed by Ryan Bank. [ [http://www.siu.edu/~perspect/01_fall/documentary.html Life Preserver ] ]

Lazowski died in 2006 in Eugene, Oregon, where he had been living with his daughter [ [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20061220/ai_n17079978/pg_1 Chicago's 'Schindler' who saved 8,000 Jews from Nazis dies] ] .

External links

* [http://stjoenj.net/lazowski/lazowski.html He duped Nazis, saved thousands]
* [http://holocaustforgotten.com/eugene.htm Fake Epidemic Saves a Village from Nazis]
* [http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/07/05/prsb0705.htm 2 doctors used typhus to save thousands in wartime]
* [http://www.siu.edu/~perspect/01_fall/documentary.html Life Preserver]
* [http://123redirect.com/mvFYz Where is Spielberg?]

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NAME = Lazowski, Eugene
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Polish doctor
DATE OF BIRTH = 1913
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DATE OF DEATH = December 16, 2006
PLACE OF DEATH = Eugene, Oregon, USA


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