Józef Celmajster
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Józef Celmajster (later Józef Niemirski) (born 27 December 1901 - 7 December 1968 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish physician of Jewish descent, first lieutenant of the Polish Army, chief of medical department of the Jewish Military Union (ŻZW) in the Warsaw Ghetto and -KB.
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. Later deported to the German concentration camp Auschwitz and survived.
After World War II he worked as physician.
Military decorations[]
- Polonia Restituta
References[]
- Tadeusz Bednarczyk – Życie codzienne warszawskiego getta (Warsaw 1995, ISBN 83-86449-02-0)
- Marian Apfelbaum - Two flags: Return to the Warsaw Ghetto (ISBN 965-229-356-3)
Categories:
- 1901 births
- 1968 deaths
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising insurgents
- Jewish Military Union members
- Jewish resistance members during the Holocaust
- Polish military doctors
- Auschwitz concentration camp survivors
- Burials at Powązki Military Cemetery
- Polish Army officers
- 20th-century Polish physicians
- Polish medical biography stubs
- Jewish biography stubs