Zdzisław Askanas (1910-1974) - materiały do biografii lekarza
Zdzisław Askenas (1910-1974) – Source Materials for the Doctor’s Biography

Summary/Abstract: Zdzisław Askanas hailed from a well known and fairly affluent Jewish family, with ties to the Płock region since the mid-18th century. The Askanas family produced several outstanding persons, merited in various areas of science and culture, including, for example, Kazimierz Askanas (1909-1994), a regional activists associated with Płock, Stefan Askanas (1908-1972), Director General of the Poznań International Fair, Aleksander Askanas, a cardiologist (born 1938) or Wiktor Askanas, an economist.Zdzisław Askanas completed studies in medicine at the Medical Faculty of Warsaw University (1929-1935). After graduation he worked under the supervision of two outstanding general practitioners: Professor Mściwój Semerau-Siemianowski (1885-1953) at the St. Lazarus Hospital in Warsaw w Warszawie and Professor Jakub Węgierko (1889-1960) at the St. Stanislas Hospital for Communicable Diseases in Warsaw. He fought in the September 1939 war, was confined to the Warsaw ghetto together with his family, then stayed in hiding in Warsaw after an escape from the ghetto. He took part in the Warsaw Rising as a doctor, helping to organize makeshift hospitals for the insurgents. After World War II, Zdzisław Askanas was one of the most important architects of modern Polish cardiology, a professor and founder of the First Cardiology Chair and Clinic of the Warsaw Medical Academy.

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