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Jerzy Einhorn (26 July 1925 in Czestochowa, Poland – 28 April 2000 in Stockholm, Sweden) was a Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician. His Hebrew name was Chil Josef and he was named after his grandfather on his fathers side.
Born into a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family, he became a victim of the Holocaust during World War II. Having survived Czestochowa ghetto, he was detained at the Hasag-Palcery concentration camp between June 1943 and January 1945.
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Jerzy Einhorn (26 July 1925 in Czestochowa, Poland – 28 April 2000 in Stockholm, Sweden) was a Polish-born Swedish medical doctor, researcher and politician. His Hebrew name was Chil Josef and he was named after his grandfather on his fathers side.
Born into a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family, he became a victim of the Holocaust during World War II. Having survived Czestochowa ghetto, he was detained at the Hasag-Palcery concentration camp between June 1943 and January 1945. He later chronicled his experience there in a book entitled Chosen to live.
After the war, Einhorn graduated high school in Czestochowa in 1945 and began to study medicine at Lódz university . A year later, he left Poland and travelled, via Denmark, to Sweden. For decades Einhorn worked in one Sweden's most prestigious oncological institutions, Radiumhemmet at the Karolinska Institute outside of Stockholm, where his son, Stefan Einhorn, is currently head doctor. He was also a member of the Nobel Prize Committee in Medicine as well as an honorary member and recipient of the gold medal of the Radiological Society of North America.
Throughout their lives, both Jerzy Einhorn and his wife Nina were actively involved in Zionist fundraising. During 1991-94 Einhorn was a Swedish MP for the Christian Democrats.
His children Lena Einhorn and Stefan Einhorn are both well known authors in Sweden.
Books
- Utvald att leva (English: Chosen to live), Bonniers 1996
- Det är människor det handlar om (English: There are people we are talking about), Bonniers 1998
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