http://www.metafilter.com/tags/aprivatewar Posts tagged with 'aprivatewar' at MetaFilter. Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:20:23 -0800 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:20:23 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/65712/Bacterial%2Dmarketing%2Dthe%2Dother%2DOskar%2DSchindler Upon the Nazi invasion of Poland, pediatrician Eugeniusz Łazowski and his friend Stanisław Matulewicz <a href="http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/07/05/prsb0705.htm">fabricated a fake typhus epidemic</a> to <a href="http://stjoenj.net/lazowski/lazowski.html">save Polish Jews from the Nazis</a>. Knowing that typhus-infected Jews would be summarily executed, <a href="http://holocaustforgotten.com/eugene.htm">non-Jews were injected with the harmless Proteus OX19</a>, which would generate false positives for typhus. Anglicising his name to "Eugene Lazowski", the doctor moved to the United States after the war. He lived and worked in Chicago from 1958, and <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20061220/ai_n17079978">passed away in late 2006 at the vernerable age of 92</a>, in Eugene (!), Oregon. Oddly little is written about Lazowski and Matulewicz on the web; although apparently there has been <a href="http://www.siu.edu/~perspect/01_fall/documentary.html">work on a documentary titled "A Private War" by a filmmaker named Ryan Bank</a>. So feel free to add supporting links if you are aware of any. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.65712 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:20:23 -0800 achtungfleckfieber aprivatewar chicago disease doctor epidemic eugene eugenelazowski fleckfieber forgottenheroes holocaust ididnotforgetpolandsparemethejokes illinois jewish jewry jews lazowski matulewicz medicine oregon poland polish stanislawmatulewicz typhus war worldwar2 worldwarii ww2 wwii goodnewsfortheinsane