Given name: Ludwik Family name: Hirszfeld (11)

(1)

A professor, conducted a research on the phenomenon of the spread of typhus in the ghetto. Worked also as the head of the Department of Health [of the Judenrat].

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[ see: a biographical note in the dictionary]

(3)

In summer 1941 organized a course for doctors about infectious diseases. Doctor Kochman, who was German, obtained a permission for Hirszfeld and his family to stay in their villa in Saska Kepa. If he had not got involved in the RGO (Central Welfare Council) issue he would have been able to stay there. Just like many other Jews who converted to Christianity he issued a memorial by the agency of the RGO (Central Welfare Council) to doctor Frank. In the memorial he highlighted his sincere Catholic faith and asked for the right to live outside the ghetto. The RGO (Central Welfare Council) assured the professor that everything was on the right track. After having read the memorial the authorities sent the list of all people who signed it to the blue policemen and ordered them to bring these people to the ghetto as they were considered one hundred percent Jews. As a result Hirszfeld, his wife and daughter ended up in the ghetto. In summer 1941 they moved to the rectory in Grzybowski Square.

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1942: chairman of the Health Council; organiser of medical courses. Tyszka: at the head of the Health Council.

(5)

he gives lectures at medical courses

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Gave lectures on microbiology on Zweibaum's courses.

(7)

in the ghetto until the end of February 1941; he organised and lectured at scientific courses; the chairman of the Health Council; from August 1941 he lived with wife and son at the presbytery of All Saints' Church (Kosciol Wszystkich Swietych); in the summer of 1942 he crosses with his wife and daughter to the 'Aryan side'; they hid at wife's friend's, later Hirszfeld with daughter go to the country near Kielce; frist they live at a peasant's, later for 1,5 year in Adam Grabkowski's manor; after the ill daughter's death, in January 1943 the Hirszfelds move to Stara Milosna; in march 1944 they move to Warsaw, rent a room in Zlota Street; three months later they move to the village of Lipska, 30 km away from Warsaw

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A professor. A Polish scientist and a university professor. Had Jewish roots, which was the reason of his stay in the ghetto. Lived in the Catholic church in Grzybowska Street. Stayed in the ghetto because of Adam Czerniakow's proposal, who was the head of a committee for fighting epidemics; was the one who set up secret medical courses in the ghetto, where he gave lectures on bacteriology. Before the war he was a world-wide famous bacteriologist and epidemiologist. During the First Action he went to the "Aryan" side. Survived the war.

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A professor, head of the Health Commission, became Christian. Together with Adler he takes part in discussion group's meetings.

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A well-known scientist.

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Taught on courses.

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A professor, considered an anti-Semite.

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White head, the pride of the ghetto and other testimonies: IIop2YV033/648, Iop2YV033/2010, 164, Iop2YV033/1161, Iop2YV03/2521.

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they author of a diary

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Czerniaków, Adam Adama Czerniakowa dziennik getta warszawskiego. 6 IX 1939 - 23 VII 1942, (Adam Czerniakow’s Warsaw Ghetto Diary)

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Tursz, M.

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Tyszka, Leon; Sukcesy i kleski jednego zycia (Successes and Failures of One Life)

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Zweibaum, Juliusz Account 301-4108

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Hirszfeld, Ludwik; Dzieje jednego życia ('The Story of One Life')

(9)

Adler, Stanislaw <> <>

(10)

Bauman, Janina; Winter in the morning: a young girl's life in the Warsaw Ghetto and beyond, 1939-1945, London: Virago, 1986

(11)

"Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'journal' of
Emanuel Ringelblum
Emanuel Ringelblum work was edited and translated into English by Jacob
Sloan, and published in New York by McGraw-Hill Book Company, cop. 1958
under the title Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'journal' of Emanuel
Ringelblum"

(1) , cz.2 str.44, 47, 81, 84, 85, (2) 206, (3) 46,107,180,201, (4) i inne relacje: IIop2YV033/648, Iop2YV033/2010, 164, Iop2YV033/1161, Iop2YV03/2521, (5) [58,, IIop1,], (8) 164,165, (11) [236,327]