Rozwadów

Coordinates: 50°35′28″N 22°02′30″E / 50.59111°N 22.04167°E / 50.59111; 22.04167
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Regional museum

Rozwadów (

Holocaust
.

During the German occupation of Poland (1939-1945) two Polish doctors, Eugene Lazowski and Stanisław Matulewicz created a fake typhoid fever epidemic in Rozwadów: "the quarantined area that Lazowski and Matulewicz created became a haven for Polish Jews, who could hide in Rozwadów under the cover of the fake epidemic without fear of the Nazis discovering them. All told, the doctors saved an estimated 8,000 people from being killed or imprisoned during their three-year campaign with the help of a UTI-causing bacterium."[1][2]

Rozwadów is a major rail junction, see

Stalowa Wola-Rozwadów (PKP station)
.

There exists a

Memorial Book (Yizkor Book) for Rozwadow.[3]

In Rozwadów, Josef Schwammberger murdered a rabbi on Yom Kippur 1942. This was a terrible crime which was a reason for his trial in 1991.

50°35′28″N 22°02′30″E / 50.59111°N 22.04167°E / 50.59111; 22.04167

References

  1. ^ http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/eugene.htm
  2. ^ "How a Fake Typhus Epidemic Saved a Polish City From the Nazis - Atlas Obscura". 22 September 2015.
  3. ^ Rozwadow Memorial Book