Janusz Bardach
Janusz Bardach (July 28, 1919 in Odessa – August 16, 2002 in Iowa City) was a gulag inmate, author, and noted plastic surgeon. He was the younger brother of Polish legal scholar Juliusz Bardach. Survivors include: his wife, Phyllis Harper- Bardach of Iowa City, Iowa; his daughter, Ewa Bardach and her husband Hani Elkadi of Iowa City; his granddaughter, Nina Elkadi of Iowa City. Early life Janusz Bardach was born in Odessa to Polish Jews Ottylia and Mark Bardach. At the age of one, his father Mark moved the family back to Wlodzimierz-Wolynski, Poland (now Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Ukraine). Mark Bardach was a dentist, and his uncle, Jakov Julievich Bardach, was a doctor. Janusz grew up in Poland as a secular Jew and was a strong supporter of the Soviet Union. As a teenager, he suffered from anti-Semitic attacks and joined Jewish and left-wing groups. The war and the Gulag When, during World War II Poland was partitioned between Germany and the Soviet Union, Bardach was d ...
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