In Rozwadow, Drs. Lazowski and Matulewicz (left) are credited with saving approximately 8,000 Jews by putting their medical knowledge to use. Knowing that the Germans were terrified of Typhus, the crafted a plan. They injected the town’s Jews with a benign form of typhus, and then informed the Nazis that an epidemic was at large. errified that it would spread, the Nazis quarantined the town and left it to its own devices.
Known as “the Polish Schindlers”, the two of them saved 12 ghetto communities in this crafty manner.
“I was not able to fight with a gun or a sword,” Lazowski said. “But I was able to find a way to scare the Germans.”.
“I was not able to fight with a gun or a sword,” Lazowski said. “But I was able to find a way to scare the Germans.”.