Given name: Unknown Family name: Zamenhof (4)

  • (1, 2, 3, 4) YES
  • (1, 2, 3, 4) Male
  • (2) Leon , (3) Adam , (4) Leon
  • (1) Zamenhof , (2) Zamenhof , (3) Zamenhof , (4) Zamenhof
  • (1, 2, 3, 4) No information
  • (1)

    A well-known oculist, he becomes the director of the Czyste hospital, apprehended by the Gestapo on 28 September

    (2)

    Outstanding oculist, noble man, brave officer; after director Sztabholc left the the Czyste Hospital on 6 September, doctor Zamnehof, who had the rank of major in Polish Army, replaced the director; he lived in the School of Nursing; he was placid, composed, and had soothing influence on people around him, he offered good advice; on 1 October 1939 a young SS-man came to the hospital and school and on the base of names register he arrested doctor Zamenhof and escorted from the school office; from that moment doctor Zamenhof disappeared without a trace.

    (3)

    Doctor, the son of the creator of Esperanto - doctor Ludwik Zamenhof, oculist, he was the head of a department in the Czyste Hospital and from 16 September 1939 he was also the director of this hospital. Soon after the encroachment of Germans to Warsaw he was arrested with his wife and sister (they both were doctors). Czerniakow noted on 6 May 1940: 'From the Union of Esperantists I had received a letter if they can send money for the Zamenhof's family.

    (4)

    Son of Ludwik Zamenhof (who created Esperanto), a doctor. His wife, sister (also doctors) and him were arrested by Germans.

    • (1, 2, 3) physicians
    • (4) Intelligentsia
  • (1)

    a son

  • (1)

    Gurfinkiel-Glocerowa, Sabina; The Czyste Hospital and Me, Testimony, Yad Vashem Archives
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    (2)

    Blum-Bielicka, Luba Szkola Pielegniarstwa przy Szpitalu Starozakonnych w Warszawie (1923-1943). Wspomnienia (School of Nursing of the Jewish Hospital in Warsaw (1923-1943). Memoirs)

    (3)

    Czerniakow, Adam, Adama Czerniakowa dziennik getta warszawskiego. 6 IX 1939 - 23 VII 1942, (The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow)

    (4)

    Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'journal' of Emanuel Ringelblum; Emanuel Ringelblum’s 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

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