Chicago's 'Schindler' who saved 8,000 Poles from Nazis dies
When the Nazis occupied Poland during World War II and started killing Jews and sending Poles into forced labor, young Dr. Eugene Lazowski soon figured out the one thing that would terrify the brutal occupiers: disease.
Playing upon this German fear, Dr. Lazowski and a colleague risked their lives to fake a typhus epidemic that led the Germans to quarantine a dozen Polish villages, thus saving lives of 8,000 people who might otherwise have wound up in prisons, slave labor or death camps.
Like Oskar Schindler, the industrialist who was portrayed in the movie ''Schindler's List,'' Dr. Lazowski may one day be the subject of a movie.
"I was not able to fight with a gun or a sword, but I found a way to scare the Germans," he later told the Sun-Times.
In addition, Dr. Lazowski treated Jews in the ghetto of his local village, was a member of the Polish underground and escaped from a German POW camp where he had been imprisoned at the beginning of the war.
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Playing upon this German fear, Dr. Lazowski and a colleague risked their lives to fake a typhus epidemic that led the Germans to quarantine a dozen Polish villages, thus saving lives of 8,000 people who might otherwise have wound up in prisons, slave labor or death camps.
Like Oskar Schindler, the industrialist who was portrayed in the movie ''Schindler's List,'' Dr. Lazowski may one day be the subject of a movie.
"I was not able to fight with a gun or a sword, but I found a way to scare the Germans," he later told the Sun-Times.
In addition, Dr. Lazowski treated Jews in the ghetto of his local village, was a member of the Polish underground and escaped from a German POW camp where he had been imprisoned at the beginning of the war.
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