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Polish resistance hero dies
Information from CNN.com
25 February 2002
WARSAW, Poland -- A polish doctor
who was feted as a hero for treating Jewish victims
of Nazi beatings during World War II has died.
Arnold Mostowicz,
87, offered medical treatment to fellow Jews injured
in the Lodz ghetto, one of Poland's largest ghettos
during the war.
Mostowicz, who played a significant role in the resistance
movement, was deported to Auschwitz in 1944.
The leader of the Polish Association of Jewish War Veterans,
Ludwik Krasucki, told The Associated Press that Mostowicz,
died of a long-term illness in a Warsaw hospital on
Sunday night
Mostowicz was born in the central city of Lodz in 1914,
which was Poland's second largest Jewish community before
the war.
As a survivor of the war he shared his experiences with
the world through his work as a journalist and as an
author of a number of books as well as the internationally
recognised documentary "Fotoamator," ("The
Photographer").
The documentary, written and narrated by Mostowicz,
was based on the 1987 discovery of 400 colour slides
taken by Nazi officials during the war.
Krasucki said: "Thanks to him we know about the
conditions of life, or better to say, the conditions
of death, in the Lodz ghetto."
Mostowicz also contributed to
the formation of various Jewish memorial organisations,
including the Association of Jewish Veterans and the
Monumentum Judaicum Lodzense Association, which ensures
the preservation of Jewish heritage in Lodz and the
Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation representing
Nazi victims.
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