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December 21st, 2006, 01:23 AM
Quoth the Chicago Sun-Times (http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/179190,CST-NWS-xlazowski20.article):
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.
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.