Dr Abraham Finkelsztejn 1906–1968 (Dr Adam Ewen)
Dr Abraham Finkelsztejn 1906–1968 (Dr Adam Ewen)

Summary/Abstract: Abraham Finkelsztejn (1906–1968) was a merited physician and an activist of the Zionist movement. He was a graduate of the Michał Kreczmar Boys Junior High Philological School in Warsaw. In 1934 he graduated from the Warsaw University School of Medicine and got his first job in Dąbrowice near Kutno. While still at university he acted in “Jardenia” Academic Zionist Organization before joining the Organization of Zionists in Poland. Before the outbreak of World War II, he moved to Legionowo near Warsaw. During the war he was forcibly resettled to Legionowo’s Jewish District, established by the Nazis on 15 November 1940. The Judenrat President entrusted to him the demanding job of Sanitary Doctor of the Jewish District in Legionowo (Der Sanitätsarzt der jüdischen Wohngebiet in Legionowo). Finkelsztejn managed to procure the establishment of the Jewish Contagious Diseases Hospital, of which he became the manager. When the Legionowo ghetto was liquidated on 3 October 1942, he went into hiding in the town together with his mother. After the war he became head of the Municipality Hospital in Legionowo. In November 1945 he married Halina Skowronek, they had two children (twins). in 1847 the Finkelsztejns took residence in Sopot. Finkelsztejn remained an activist of the Union of Zionists–Democrats „Ikhud”. He wanted to leave for Israel, which he did in 1957. The doctor died on 8 March 1968, at the age of 61. He was buried at the old cemetery in Netanya.

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