A Story of One Life

A doctor.

A statistician in the Department of Supply, carried out a research on the amount of consumed goods.

Medical commissioner in the ghetto, graduated from a Polish university.

before the war was Hirszfeld's co-worker. Escaped from the ghetto with his fiancée and wanted to get to the partisan...

Hirszfeld's assistant before the war. Killed by the Ukrainians, when he wanted to defend his father.

The head of the branch of the Hygiene Institution in Lodz, died during the war as a soldier.

Ludwik Hirszlefd's friend, waited for him on the 'Aryan side'.

A brother of Hirszfeld's friend, it was him that he went to after having got to the 'Aryan side'.

Gave shelter to Hirszfeld and his wife in her house in Stara Milosna since the end of February 1943. Three Jewish gi...

Died in the ghetto.

Since May 1944 the Hirszfelds were in his house in the countryside in Lipka. For a dozen years or so was a caretaker...

The head of a hospital laboratory in Lodz, a hematologist, in the ghetto was L. Hirszlefd's deputy in the bacteriolo...

lieutenant of the Polish Army, participated in the defence of Warsaw in 1939, when his wife and daughter died in bom...

An engineer, the general secretary of the Judenrat, Polish Socialist Party member, spent many years n exile in Siber...

An outstanding pedagogue

A doctor and a scholar.

The manager of the State Hygiene Institution on behalf of the Germans.

engineer - handed to Hirszfeld a thermostat free of charge in the hospital in Stawki Street in 1941

A brother of a well-known banker from Milan. Tortured to death in the first half of July 1942.

head of the Health Service

Ludwik Hirszfeld's co-worker in researche concerning vaccines against typhus fever

Starkiewicz's wife

Professor. He hid with his wife on the 'Aryan side'. Died both died killed by the thugs who were at the Gestapo serv...

doctor

Until spring of 1941 she was the head of medical service. During the First Action (probably) she was deported with o...

Doctor of medicine and philosophy, the head of the hospital, anatomist pathologist, member of the Health Council in...

oficer przedwojennej policji, w lipcu 42 na czele Służby Porządkowej. W czasie akcji oddawania Niemcom futer przemyc...

a pediatrician, in the ghetto Hirszfeld asked him to put together a questionnaire concerning typhus fever

an engineer, head of the engineering-sanitary section of the Health Council

excellent expert of tuberculosis, together with Hirszfeld he organized blood transfusions during the siege of Warsaw...

a doctor, he lives in Wislica in the Kielce region; finds a shelter in the village in the neighbourhood for Hirszfel...

she hid with her husband Wladyslaw an the "Aryan side". They were killed by bandits working for the Gestapo

the acquaintance of the Szereszewski

pedagogue, head of the 'Dobra Wola' home for children of the street

a surgeon, in the ghetto he was the head of the center of blood donors, an assistant of professor Raszeja, murdered...

a doctor

he organized help for Hirszfeld's family on the 'Aryan side'

a university assistant professor; he found a shelter in Wislica for Hirszfeld and his daughter

in her cottage in Stara Milosna the Hirszfeld family were hiding in the summer of 1943

From Krakow, organised a brush factory at Dzielna Street No. 61 to fulfill the needs of the Wehrmacht, gave money to...

He came form Malopolska; set up a factory of brushes in the Warsaw Ghetto; he delivered them to the Germans and beca...

A lawyer and economist, the activist of Aid for Jews Committee, member of the Health Council

head of the Hospitals Department, member of the Health Council

Korczak's co-worker.

An activist of the Toporol (The Society for the Support of Agriculture), he was a wealthy man.

He was arrested during the first half of July 1942. He died quickly. His father bought the body.

A doctor and a friend of Hanna Hirszfeld. The Hirszfelds were hiding at her place on the "Aryan side" for...

A doctor from Lvov, he hid with his father in the basement of one of the university departments. His friend brought...

A scholar and a doctor.

assistant lecturer at Warsaw University, in the ghetto he worked in Hirszfeld's bacteriological laboratory

during the war he came back to Poland to save his mother

scholar, doctor

In October 1939 she had been baptised together with her husband and child and she went with them to Italy to her sis...

a professor, lectured on chemistry on courses for doctors in the ghetto

a doctor

before the war he was the head of a health centre

head of the prison in the ghetto, judge of Polish courts; he lived in the prison building. SS-men shot his wife, 12-...

biology student, in the ghetto, he worked in Hirszfeld's bacteriological laboratory

factory owner, keen philosopher, used to come to the Korczak’s Orphanage and tell children about Greek philosophy

Hirszfeld and his daughter hide in the Grabkowskis' manor house.

a Judenrat member, the head of the Supply Section, a worker for voluntary causes and a philanthropist

Prelate of the parafia Wszystkich Swietych (All Saints' parish) in Grzybowski Square. Once a virulent anti-Semite, h...

head nurse, her child was at her friends' on the "Aryan side", she herself already had "Aryan" p...

a major, a doctor; from spring 1941, the Anti-Epidemic Commissioner in the ghetto, a member of the Health Council

a philanthropist; financed the purchase of a microscope

A professor- he was called to an ill man from the ghetto, and was murdered by SS-men in the patient's house in Chlod...

a doctor

a musician

A count, tortured to death in the first half of July 1942.

Hirszfields' assistant in the State Hygiene Institution. At the beginning of the Action in 1942 she found herself at...

An assistant of the State Hygiene Institution, for a long time worked in the USA and Paris. In the ghetto she became...

a hospital trustee, member of the Health Council

worked in hospital, at Hanna Hirszfeld's ward

Chairman of the Lodz Medical Association. Died on the 'Aryan side' - probably poisoned himself for fear of blackmail...

a lawyer; Marysia Szereszewska's husband; he worked as a clerk in the Judenrat; he lived with the Szereszewski famil...

w szpitalu na Stawkach, pracownia badania głodu. Strącił z czwartego okna synka i żonę i rzucił się za nimi

A senior registrar. He visited a friend on the "Aryan side", and was caught and put into the prison in Ges...

Captain of the Polish Army, he took part in the defence of Warsaw as a volunteer. In the ghetto, during the epidemic...

an architect, he was the soul of the construction school of the Association to Support the Crafts; he organised the...

He was a lawyer, hospital trustee, and a member of the Health Council.

He helped children in the ghetto.

a doctor's son, a recent secondary-school graduate, Hirszfeld took care of him

he was beaten so heavily that it was hard to recognise him on the cemetery

the president's wife, she helped Korczak in the foundlings’ home in Dzielna Street

before the war he was a Zionist activist. In the the ghetto - a Judenrat member and the head of the Health Departmen...

a doctor

head of the Department of Deportations, later ghetto commissar

in the hospital in Stawki Street, starvation research laboratory

owner of a fur shop in Marszalkowska Street before the war

an engineer

Assistant at the State Hygiene Institution. She was in Paris when the war broke out, she came to Warsaw on the last...

The managing director of a children's hospital, a member of the Health Council. Died in the hospital because she did...

Half-German, half-French, came to the Warsaw Ghetto from Germany, a doctor.

A doctor, in 1941 he was the head of the German Health Service.

Was in hiding on the 'Aryan side', when the blackmailers came to him he poisoned himself.

Was in the ghetto with her husband and daughter since February 1941, crossed to the "Aryan" side in 1942,...

Was in the ghetto with her parents since late February 1941; in the summer of 1942 they went to the "Aryan"...

in the ghetto until the end of February 1941; he organised and lectured at scientific courses; the chairman of the H...

a professor, he lectured Chemistry at courses for doctors in the ghetto. He hid on the 'Aryan side' at his 'Aryan' w...

the chairman's wife, the patron of many orphanages

the chairman of the Judenrat

a cardiologist, member of the Health Council in the ghetto.

a priest, prelate Godlewski's helper and deputy in the All Saints' Church

An assistant of the Free Polish University before the war; in the ghetto she worked in Hirszfeld's bacteriological l...

He discovered and described hunger-related osteomalacia in the ghetto, he worked in a hospital.

Judenrat member, he was active in the Society to Support Craft

an assistant professor of medicine, a histologist, used to give lectures during courses in the ghetto

worked in the foundling's house in Dzielna Street

the author of research works concerning vaccine against diphtheria; she left Warsaw before the siege and worked in K...

Hirszfeld's daughter hid at the Voits' place on the 'Aryan side'

A Judenrat member; a Jewish orthodox representative

a cemetery councillor, Jewish activist, writer, representative of the orthodox

A young lawyer; baptised 21 July 1942.

assistant at the State Hygiene Institution, in the ghetto she worked in Hirszfeld's bacteriological laboratory in th...

Germans executed at the gates in July 1942

the Hirszfelds live there until February 1941

Disinfection.

murdered Prof. Raszeja

a square on the corner of Ciepla Street - from here trucks took people to work on the 'Aryan side'.

in the surrounding forests the Hirszfelds waited until Russians came 18 August 1944

at the beginning the Hirszfelds lived with their acquaintances

from August 1941 the Hirszfelds lived there

in 1941 medicial courses took place there

the hospital from Stawki Street evacuated in July 1942