Given name: Mieczysław Family name: Centnerszwer

professor doctor; finished a junior high school in Warsaw, he studied Chemistry at Lipsk University, in 1900 in Berlin he married Franciszka Anna nee Beck; professor in Riga, Moscow and Warsaw. In the ghetto he wrote a book entitled 'Chemia organiczna' [Organic Chemistry]; he organised Chemistry courses in the ghetto; he lectured Physics and Chemistry at Zweibaum's Courses of Sanitary Training; shortly before the action he crossed to the 'Aryan side', he hid at his wife's, who was 'Aryan' and who he had officialy devorced in 1940; turned in by caretaker's son and shot in the wife's flat by the Gestapo; friends bought his corpse from the Gestapo and buried it in the Catholic cemetery under number 301-6574 - testimony written by the professor's daughter Jadwiga Grohman nee Centnerszwer

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