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Zofia Zamenhof (13 December 1889 – 12 September 1942) was a Polish pediatrician and the daughter of Klara (Silbernik) and L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto.
Zofia Zamenhof | |
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 Zamenhof circa 1906 | |
| Born | 13 December 1889 |
| Died | 13 September 1942 (aged 52) |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Known for | Activity in Esperanto movement |
| Parent(s) | L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917) Klara Zamenhof (1863–1924) |
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From 1907 to 1913 she completed her medical studies at the University of Lausanne and she passed a state examination in Saint Petersburg in 1914.[1] She then continued to specialize in internal and pediatric diseases. She worked at a hospital in Lebedyn, and from 1922 in a hospital in Warsaw.[citation needed] During World War II, she moved to the Warsaw Ghetto. Despite the presence of the Nazis, she continued her medical practice until she was arrested and transported to a death camp. In 1942 she was taken from the Umschlagplatz in Warsaw's ghetto to the extermination camp in Treblinka, where she was murdered, most likely in a gas chamber.[citation needed]
Her symbolic tomb (commemorative plaque near the tomb of Klara Zamenhof) is located on the Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw.[2]
References
edit- ^ Louis Falstein, The martyrdom of Jewish physicians in Poland, Exposition Press, 1964, s. 493
- ^ Zofia Zamenhof cemetery.jewish.org.pl
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