Given name: Marian Family name: Mayzner

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  • Male
  • Marian
  • Mayzner
  • Mojżesz Mayzner, Mieczysław Mayzner
  • 1895
  • 1942
  • 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.

  • physicians
  • "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.

  • 62 i 108, p