Given name: Marian,Mojżesz Family name: Mayzner (3)

  • (1, 2, 3) YES
  • (1, 2, 3) Male
  • (1) Marian,Mojżesz , (3) Marian
  • (1) Mayzner , (2) Mayzner , (3) Mayzner
  • (3) Mojżesz Mayzner, Mieczysław Mayzner
  • (1, 3) 1895
  • (1, 3) 1942
  • (1, 2, 3) No information
  • (1)

    pediatrician, director of the Main Shelter Home for abandoned children at Dzielna Street No. 39

    (2)

    A doctor in foundlings’ home at Leszno Street No. 11; he died in the ghetto

    (3)

    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.

    • (1, 2, 3) physicians
  • (3)

    "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.

  • (2)

    Braude, Judyta; testimony, Yad Vashem Archives

  • (1) 373,438, (3) 62 i 108, p