Friends!

Friends! Today I want to tell you a story about Eugeniusz Sławomir Łazowski and Stanisław Matulewicz - Polish doctors, who saved about 8,000 Jews in the time of the Holocaust through a single scientific tricks.

Eugeniusz was born in 1913 in Poland. He received his medical training before the start of World War II. He graduated from University named Jozef Pilsudski in Warsaw. After graduation he enlisted to the front, however almost immediately was captured. Escaped and began to engage in partisan work. But then I realized that medical skills more useful in war times. Together with his wife and small daughter, he moved to the city Rozvadov, which was located near several villages and Jewish ghetto. Łazowski worked side by side with his friend - Dr. Stanisław Matulewicz

Eugeniusz secretly began to help those who needed medical care in the ghetto. He asked his patients to mark the doors of houses that require a doctor and came there at night and treated patients.

But people understood - as Jews are not saved. We needed a more global plan. He invented how to help everyone - Poles of forcible eviction on to Germany and the Jews - to save lives.

Even before the war Matulewicz discovered that if to human blood addmthe dead bacteria Proteus OX19, then the fever tesy will be positive. This patient remains healthy. So doctors "infected" by fever Poles, for patients not treated Jews would be killed and on the spot.

German troops left the city, where were the "raging epidemic." And announced a quarantine on the entire surrounding area. But the number of victims of the epidemic was too small, so to Rozvadov were sent doctor, who had to check the situation. He came with two students.

Łazowski and Matulewicz previously learned about the guest and prepared him a warm welcome. After the feast, he sent his assistants to take the tests. They were very afraid of catching the disease tested because few patients (who actually got fever).

After returning from a trip the doctor confirmed the presence of the epidemic in Rozvadov, and so for some time for the city and residents of surrounding areas failed to win. As it turned out, enough to wait until the end of the German occupation.

After the Second World War Eugeniusz moved to America through Rockefeller Foundation grant. They then worked as a doctor and taught at the University of Illinois. He lived in in Oregon until his death in 2006. About Dr. Łazowski was even filmed a documentary "private war", based on the stories of people whose family were saved through fictitious memoirs of the epidemic and Lazo.

Friends, stories of people like Eugeniusz Sławomir Łazowski are inspiring. When one combines the intelligence and humanity, it is able to do grand things. I wish that to each of you.