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Eugene Lazowski

1913 - 2006

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Eugene Lazowski born Eugeniusz Sławomir Łazowski (1913 in Częstochowa, Poland – December 16, 2006 in Eugene, Oregon, United States) was a Polish medical doctor who saved thousands of people during World War II by creating a fake epidemic which played on German phobias about hygiene. He also used his position as a doctor treating people travelling through a nearby train station to conceal his supply of medicine to Jews in the local ghetto, which backed on to his home. By doing this, he risked the death penalty, which was applied to Poles who helped Jews in the Holocaust. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugene Lazowski is the 578th most popular physician (down from 510th in 2019), the 968th most popular biography from Poland (down from 861st in 2019) and the 20th most popular Polish Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Eugene Lazowski ranks 578 out of 726. Before him are Adam Zamenhof, Jeffrey Ullman, Arnold Pick, Karin Büttner-Janz, Borzuya, and Özlem Türeci. After him are Patrick Steptoe, Albrecht von Graefe, Nikolay Burdenko, Andrea Andreen, James Paget, and William Stokes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Eugene Lazowski ranks 257. Before him are Hans Schwartz, Vince Lombardi, Ulderico Sergo, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, and Giorgio Bocchino. After him are Patrick Steptoe, Kalpana Datta, Ad Reinhardt, Cornelius Johnson, Minoru Honda, and Bernard Lovell. Among people deceased in 2006, Eugene Lazowski ranks 248. Before him are Ray Barretto, Paul Arizin, Wolfgang Unzicker, Jaroslav Pelikan, Frank Beyer, and Jimmy Johnstone. After him are Mary Boyce, Savino Guglielmetti, Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, Annette Rogers, Hilde Domin, and Konstantin Beskov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Eugene Lazowski ranks 968 out of 1,694. Before him are Heinrich Göppert (1800), Franciszek Smuda (1948), Jakub Berman (1901), Zygmunt Noskowski (1846), Daniel Harrwitz (1823), and Jakub Wujek (1541). After him are Johannes Thiele (1865), Bogusław Linda (1952), Sawa (1938), Boris Chertok (1912), Sam Warner (1887), and Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, Eugene Lazowski ranks 20. Before him are Hilary Koprowski (1916), Wilhelm Fliess (1858), Kazimierz Bein (1872), Zofia Zamenhof (1889), Max Gerson (1881), and Adam Zamenhof (1888). After him are Ludwig Traube (1818), Ludwik Rajchman (1881), Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer (1858), Bernhard Zondek (1891), and Joseph Schröter (1837).

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