Jerzy einhorn biography

Jerzy Einhorn was a Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician.
Jerzy Einhorn was born the year that Poland gained independence after 123 years of partition and occupation by Austria, Germany and Russia.
Jerzy Einhorn was a Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician (Kristdemokrat).

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RECOLLECTIONS OF THE END OF AN ERA

Poland 1919-1945

byJerzy Einhorn

AN INCREDIBLE ORDER

On July 31st, I was ordered to report for a new assignment. My meeting with Colonel “Bronislaw” and his head of intelligence was held at

I was struck dumb by the news, and impatiently awaited my orders. The order was: the Uprising would comprise not only the city but also the whole district. Those in the outlying areas, however, were not ordered to take up arms but instead given the duty of penetrating the city to reinforce the Uprising. On the eastern side of the , the Soviet forces were encircling , including some of the outlying areas. Colonel “Bronislaw” explained that I was to cross the Eastern Front along the Wawer-Otwock line, and that in Otwock--which was already in Soviet hands--I was to contact the local AK commander and pass him the order to penetrate with his units. Once this was accomplished, I had permission to remain on the Soviet side and keep in contact with the local AK authorities. I was informed that two other offic

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Jerzy Einhorn; Holocaust Survivor Revolutionized Cancer Care in Sweden

Jerzy Einhorn, 74, an internationally known cancer specialist based in Sweden who survived a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Born in Czestochowa, Poland, Einhorn left his Polish school after several anti-Semitic incidents and studied in a Jewish school, where he learned Hebrew. During the Nazi occupation, he was first placed in the Warsaw ghetto, and later in a camp outside his hometown. He studied medicine in Poland after the war, leaving in 1946 to study medicine in Denmark. Einhorn decided not to return to his homeland after new anti-Semitic outbursts and the murders of several Jewish students in Lodz. He and his wife took a train to Sweden and asked for asylum. From 1967 until retirement in 1992, he was director of the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, where he had revolutionized cancer care in the country. “He worked not only with concrete treatments for cancer, but also with all the symptoms and other problems by taking an interest in the organization of cancer care,” said Ulrik Ringborg, th

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Jerzy Einhorn

Polish-born Swedish doctor (1925–2000)

Jerzy Einhorn (26 July 1925 in Częstochowa, Poland – 28 April 2000 in Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician (Kristdemokrat). His Hebrew name was Chil Josef, after his paternal grandfather.

Born into a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family, during the German occupation of Poland he became a victim of the Holocaust during World War II. He was first sent to the Warsaw Ghetto, then to the Częstochowa Ghetto outside his hometown,^[1] where he was detained at the HASAG-Placery concentration camp between June 1943 and January 1945. He later chronicled his experience there in a book entitled Utvald att leva (English:Chosen to live).

Einhorn graduated from secondary school in Częstochowa in 1945 and began to study medicine at the University of Łódź, then left Poland in 1946 to continue his studies in Denmark.^[1] Einhorn and his wife decided not to return to Poland and instead sought asylum in Sweden.^[1]

Einhorn was chief physician at Sweden's