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"It began with a rumour. Years after the war ended, stories started circulating
about a Polish doctor who had supposedly saved thousands of Jews from the gas
chambers by inventing a false epidemic. Newspapers repeated it. A documentary
crew went looking for it. A myth formed around the idea that one man and one
clever medical trick had preserved a large Jewish population from certain
death.
The truth is more nuanced, grounded in the very specific nature of life in
occupied Poland, in the habits of the German authorities, and in the slow and
sometimes uncomfortable way historical memory evolves. Eugene Lazowski did save
people. Many of them. But not in the precise way the legend later claimed.
What he did manage was extraordinary in its own right. It simply deserves to be
told as it really happened."
Via Muse, who wrote "Brilliant story! This is what resistance is all about!"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
