Given name: Marian Family name: Mayzner

a pediatrician, director of the Central Home for abandoned children at Leszno Street No. 127, and after the resettlement to the ghetto - director of the Main Shelter Home, Dzielna Street No. 39. Appointed by the Municipal Board of the Judenrat. Under his management the House was "children's slaughterhouse, a dive"; according to Korczak and other observers. L. Hirszfeld called it "hell on earth". Mortality rate was almost 100 per cent, the Home's personnel robbed the children of everything.

"A man of quite a great knowledge and good heart, but not resourceful" according to H.Makower, p. 87; J.Korczak considered him a "pest, panic-defeatist, oppositionist and negativist even psychiatric" who can be useful, but "among clean, disinfected children". Korczak did not respond to his bows, he believed, he should be fired immediately.