Wanda Makuch-Korulska

Wanda Makuch - Korulska ( born October 12, 1919 in Warsaw, † April 1, 2007 ibid.) Was a Polish neurologist, professor at the Medical University of Warsaw and the Polish resistance fighter from 1939 to 1945 From the Yad Vashem as Righteous she was honored among the nations.

Life

Makuch - Korulska made ​​her high school in 1938 and began studying medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Warsaw. During the Second World War she was an instructor of military preparation courses for women in the underground struggle. During the German occupation of Poland, she worked with the Polish Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa, AK ) together with the Order of Merit was awarded in London, and also took part in the Warsaw Uprising.

In 1947 she completed her medical degree and completed his doctorate in 1952 at the Neurological Clinic of the Medical Academy in Warsaw in Adam Opalski with the work Objawy neurologiczne w chorobie Cushinga ( Neurological symptoms in Cushing 's syndrome).

In post-war Poland Makuch - Korulska was for many years a mentor of students at the Neurological Clinic of the Medical Academy in Warsaw and trust doctor of the U.S. Embassy in Poland.

In 1994 she was honored by the Yad Vashem for saving Jews with the medal Righteous among the Nations.

Swell

• Biography of Wanda Makuch - Korulska: Barbara Emeryk - Szajewska, Hubert Kwieciński: Katedra i Neurologii Clinic. S. 1028 (in Polish ) (PDF, 7.4 MB)
• Righteous Among the Nations Honored by Yad Vashem (Poland ) (PDF, 1.6 MB)
• Wanda Makuch - Korulska, in: Lucien Lazare, Israel Gutman, Dan Mikhman, Sara Bender: The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations: Poland; Vad Yashem 2004
• Those who helped. Polish rescuers of Jews falling on the Holocaust, Part 2, Main Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation, The Institute of National Memory, 1996. S. 171
• Władysław Bartoszewski: Pisma wybrane: 1969-1979 ( Polish), Universitas, 2008, ISBN 978-83-242-0984-2, pp. 194 ff