Zofia Zamenhof

Zofia Zamenhof (December 13, 1889 – September 12, 1942) was a Polish pediatrician and the daughter of Klara (Silbernik) and L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto.

Zofia Zamenhof
Sofia Zamenhof around the year 1906
Born(1889-12-13)13 December 1889
Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died13 September 1942(1942-09-13) (aged 52)
Treblinka extermination camp
NationalityPolish
Known forActivity in
Esperanto movement
Parent(s)L. L. Zamenhof (1859–1917)
Klara Zamenhof (1863–1924)
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From 1907 to 1913 she completed her medical studies at the University of Lausanne and she passed a state examination in Saint Petersburg in 1914.[1] She then continued to specialize in internal and pediatric diseases. She worked at a hospital in Lebedin, and from 1922 in a hospital in Warsaw. During World War II, she moved to the Warsaw Ghetto. Despite the presence of the Nazis, she continued her medical practice until she was arrested and transported to a death camp. In 1942 she was taken from the Umschlagplatz in Warsaw's ghetto to the extermination camp in Treblinka, where she was murdered, most likely in a gas chamber.

Her symbolic tomb (commemorative plaque near the tomb of Klara Zamenhof) is located on the Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw.[2]

References
  1. Louis Falstein, The martyrdom of Jewish physicians in Poland, Exposition Press, 1964, s. 493
  2. Zofia Zamenhof cemetery.jewish.org.pl


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