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Franciszek Paweł Raszeja
Franciszek Paweł Raszeja (April 2, 1896 in Chełmno – July 21, 1942 in Warsaw) was a Polish Orthopedic cast, orthopaedic physician and academic teacher. The brother of activist Leon Raszeja, he was killed while visiting a Jewish patient in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Biography Raszeja was born on April 2, 1896, in Chełmno, (Kulm) in the family of a postal clerk, Ignacy and Maria, née Cichoń. When he was born and until he was about 22 this area was part of the German Empire. He attended the Chełmno Junior High School, where he made friends with Kurt Schumacher, a later Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD politician and activist. During World War I he was conscripted into the German Army (German Empire), German army, fought on the Eastern Front (World War I), eastern front, and was taken captive and held in Tashkent. In 1918, he made his way through Finland and Sweden to Poland. He took part in the Polish–Soviet War, Polish-Bolshevik war as a medic. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chełmno
Chełmno (; older ; , formerly also ) is a town in northern Poland near the Vistula river with 18,915 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the seat of the Chełmno County in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. Due to its regional importance in the Middle Ages, the town gave its name to the entire area, Chełmno Land (and later an administrative unit of the Kingdom of Poland, the Chełmno Voivodeship), the local Catholic diocese and Kulm law, a municipal form of government for over 180 cities and towns in Central Europe, most notably Warsaw, Gdańsk, Toruń, Königsberg, Olsztyn, Płock and Klaipėda. It possesses a well-preserved historic Old Town, listed as a Historic Monument of Poland, with landmark Gothic churches and a Renaissance town hall. It was an important education center in the early modern period, and the place of pioneering surgical operations by renown Polish 19th-century surgeon Ludwik Rydygier. Name The city's name ''Chełmno'' comes from ''chelm'', t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
