Borysowicz Jerzy

Borysowicz Jerzy During the occupation, Dr. Jerzy Borysowicz worked as a neurologist in the psychiatric hospital bordering on the Radom ghetto. During 1941-1942, two Jews, Dr. David Wajnapel and Dr. Anna Gecow, were in charge of the department of contagious diseases in the ghetto’s Jewish hospital, most of whose patients were ill with typhus. In particularly complicated cases, which required the intervention of a neurologist, the two would ask Dr. Borysowicz’s advice. Although it was forbidden to offer medical advice to Jews, Borysowicz did so with alacrity, and even visited the ghetto hospital itself, when his services were required, despite the danger. He himself checked patients, dispensed advice to doctors, and smuggled in medicines that Poles were forbidden to sell to Jews. Dr. Borysowicz even occasionally hid Jews in the psychiatric hospital in which he worked, passing them off as Poles who required hospitalization in his department. Among the latter were Roza Tenenbaum and the wife of Dr. Dimant from the city of Szydłowiec. In risking his life for Jewish refugees, Dr. Borysowicz was guided by humanitarian considerations only. On one occasion, when Dr. Wajnapel’s sister-in-law was deported to Treblinka and left her six-month-old baby in the ghetto, Dr. Borysowicz hastened to the ghetto and delivered the baby into the care of a Polish family. On December 6, 1984, Yad Vashem recognized Jerzy Borysowicz as Righteous Among the Nations. File No. 3050