In World War II, Nazi Germany carried out an inhumane ethnic cleansing of the Jews. From 1939 to 1945, Nazi Germany inhumanely killed more than 6 million Jews.
▲The Germans ordered the Jews to dig the "graves" for themselves and then massacred them in a concentrated manner. However, the Germans believed that this was still not efficient enough, so they invented the gas chamber
. But there are dark places that always shine with the light of human nature. Just like Mr. Rabe who protected the Chinese from the Japanese army in Nanjing, there were also a large number of good people who risked their lives to rescue the Jews from the claws of the German Nazis. The most famous one is Mr. Schindler, who was adapted into the movie " Schindler 's list".
▲The movie "Schindler's List" adapted from the German "Schindler" protects the lives of about 1,100 Jews won seven awards including the 66th Academy Awards. It also allowed more people to know that unbearable history, but it is not only Schindler who protects Jews, but there is actually a much more Jewish person than Schindler. Poles - "Eugene Lazowski" doctor.
▲Eugene Lazowski (1913-2006), although his story is not very famous compared to Schindler, as a military doctor, he used his medical skills to save 8,000 Polish Jews
In September 1939, the Nazi cavalry drove into Poland, and Poland was defeated in October of the same year. Eugene Lazowski, who graduated from the Department of Medicine of the University of Warsaw at that time, served as a military doctor for the Polish army and was imprisoned in a German prisoner of war camp in the same year. The prisoner-of-war camp is surrounded by a 3-meter-high cement wall and covered with barbed wire. While wandering around by chance, Lazorsky found a hole in a barbed wire mesh that was just enough for him to climb over. Opportunities must not be missed! Lazorsky took advantage of the inattention of the prisoner-of-war camp guards and climbed over through the gap. Lazorsky successfully crossed the prison. After
, Lazorsky rejoined the Polish Red Cross and was sent to work in the village of Loswador, which was sent to Poland. There he was reunited with his wife and young daughter and settled down.
▲The current Loswadotuan Village
He also works with Sdesla Matroz, a friend he met when he was studying in the medical school. Although the Nazi authorities did not allow the Poles to provide any help to the Jews, the two provided medical help to the Jews in the village and nearby villages with good intentions. If the Jews need his help, hang a strip of white cloth on the backyard fence. After seeing the cloth strip, Lazorsky and his colleagues secretly helped the Jews.
However, a Pole found Lazowski and asked for his help. He was one of thousands of Poles forced by Nazi occupiers to work in German labor camps, and used the reason to go home to visit relatives. Because of the Nazi abuse of the Poles and the conditions for labor camps, he didn't want to go back. But if he doesn't go back at the prescribed time, he will be hunted down and his family will be sent to the concentration camp because of him. But he knew that serious illness confirmed by doctors would prevent him from returning to camp. It was impossible for Lazorsky to issue him a false certificate because the Nazis would definitely check him. So Lazorsky used research from university time to create a fake vaccine that allows healthy people to show typhus positive reaction - (typhus is an acute infectious disease fever that can cause human rash, lymph nodes, liver and spleen enlargement, and severely it will cause death. In the areas occupied by Nazi Germany, people who are infectious diseases will be isolated immediately once they appear.) After receiving the vaccine, the Pole was diagnosed with typhus by the Nazis and was immediately sent home, and he and his family were isolated.
▲Lazowski believes that this is an excellent way to resist the Nazis. Afterwards, he said: Although I can't pick up a gun to fight the Nazis, I am a doctor and can resist the Germans in my own way.
His colleague Sdesla Matroz immediately proposed to create a fake typhus epidemic vaccine to scare the Germans to isolate the area and protect the Poles and Jews from invasion, because at that time the Gestapo was intimidating the village they were in then, to capture young Polish men and women as slave laborers and send the Jews to concentration camps.
▲Poland occupied by Nazis, the Nazis could grab a healthy Poles at will and put them in labor camps. Soon, the two doctors were diagnosed with typhus by vaccinating the Poles with fake vaccines and then sending them to other uninformed doctors to diagnose typhus positive. In just a few months, they "infected" more than a dozen villages, causing thousands of people to develop typhus. The Nazi authorities were very frightened and immediately set up an isolation belt to prevent anyone from entering and leaving, including Jews, would not be sent to concentration camps. In this way, from 1942 to the end of World War II, Lazorsky used the method of deceiving the Nazis to save a total of 8,000 Jews and Poles from the Nazis.
▲In 1958, Lazowski moved to the United States. In 1976, he became a professor of pediatrics at Illinois State University in the United States and retired in the late 1980s. While in the United States, he published a memoir called "My War." Only when his unknown contributions during World War II were made public. But in an interview in his later years, Razowski said that for all this, I just did my duty as a doctor.
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