Józef Celmajster (later Józef Niemirski) (born 27 December 1901 - 7 December 1968 in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

) was a Polish physician of

Jewish descent ''Zera Yisrael'' ( he, זרע ישראל, , meaning "Seed fIsrael") is a legal category in Halakha, Jewish law that denotes the blood descendants of Jews who, for one reason or another, are not legally of Jewish ethnicity according to religiou ...

, first lieutenant of the

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, chief of medical department of the

Jewish Military Union Żydowski Związek Wojskowy (ŻZW, Polish for ''Jewish Military Union,'' yi, יידישע מיליטערישע פֿאראייניקונג) was an underground resistance organization operating during World War II in the area of the Warsaw Ghetto, ...

(ŻZW) in the

Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto (german: Warschauer Ghetto, officially , "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; pl, getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the G ...

and OW- KB. 200px, Tombstone of Józef Celmajster on the Powązki Military Cemetery Celmajster, a graduate of the University of Wilno, participated in the 1939 Defensive War and the

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; pl, powstanie w getcie warszawskim; german: link=no, Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's ...

. Later deported to the German concentration camp Auschwitz and survived. After

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he worked as physician.

Military decorations

Polonia Restituta The Order of Polonia Restituta ( pl, Order Odrodzenia Polski, en, Order of Restored Poland) is a Polish state order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on foreigners for outstanding achievement ...

References

*Tadeusz Bednarczyk – ''Życie codzienne warszawskiego getta'' (Warsaw 1995, ) *Marian Apfelbaum - ''Two flags: Return to the Warsaw Ghetto'' () 1901 births 1968 deaths Jewish Military Union members Polish military doctors Auschwitz concentration camp survivors Burials at Powązki Military Cemetery Polish Army officers 20th-century Polish physicians {{Judaism-bio-stub