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”’Adina Blady-Szwajger”’ (1917 – 18 February 1993) was a Polish [[pediatrician]] and [[Holocaust survivor]] who worked at the children’s hospital in the [[Warsaw Ghetto]] during [[World War II]]. She later became known for her memoir ”I Remember Nothing More: The Warsaw Children’s Hospital and the Jewish Resistance”, in which she recounted her experiences under Nazi occupation.<ref name=”nyt”>{{cite news |last=Lambert |first=Bruce |title=Adina B. Szwajger Dead at 75; Pediatrician in Warsaw Ghetto |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/24/world/adina-b-szwajger-dead-at-75-pediatrician-in-warsaw-ghetto.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 February 1993 |access-date=9 November 2025 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=”indy”>{{cite news |title=Obituary: Adina Blady Szwajger |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-adina-blady-szwajger-1475466.html |access-date=9 November 2025 | |
”’Adina Blady-Szwajger”’ (1917 – 18 February 1993) was a Polish [[pediatrician]] and [[Holocaust survivor]] who worked at the children’s hospital in the [[Warsaw Ghetto]] during [[World War II]]. She later became known for her memoir ”I Remember Nothing More: The Warsaw Children’s Hospital and the Jewish Resistance”, in which she recounted her experiences under Nazi occupation.<ref name=”nyt”>{{cite news |last=Lambert |first=Bruce |title=Adina B. Szwajger Dead at 75; Pediatrician in Warsaw Ghetto |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/24/world/adina-b-szwajger-dead-at-75-pediatrician-in-warsaw-ghetto.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 February 1993 |access-date=9 November 2025 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=”indy”>{{cite news |title=Obituary: Adina Blady Szwajger |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-adina-blady-szwajger-1475466.html |access-date=9 November 2025 | date= }}</ref><ref name=”latimes”>{{cite news |title=A. B. Szwajger; Pediatrician in Warsaw Ghetto |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-27-mn-682-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=27 February 1993 |access-date=9 November 2025}}</ref> |
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Polish pediatrician and Holocaust survivor (1917–1993)
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Adina Blady-Szwajger |
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| Born | 1917 |
| Died | 18 February 1993 (aged 75–76) |
| Occupation | Pediatrician |
| Spouse | Władysław Świdowski (died before her) |
| Children | 2 |
Adina Blady-Szwajger (1917 – 18 February 1993) was a Polish pediatrician and Holocaust survivor who worked at the children’s hospital in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. She later became known for her memoir I Remember Nothing More: The Warsaw Children’s Hospital and the Jewish Resistance, in which she recounted her experiences under Nazi occupation.[1][2][3]
Early life
Blady-Szwajger studied medicine at the University of Warsaw before the German invasion of Poland.[1] When the Nazis created the Warsaw Ghetto, she worked in the ghetto’s children’s hospital, treating young patients suffering from starvation, typhus, and tuberculosis under desperate conditions.[3][1]
Warsaw Ghetto and resistance
As deportations intensified in 1942–43, she described giving fatal doses of morphine to terminally ill children to spare them from deportation to extermination camps.[1][3] After the hospital was closed by the Nazis, she escaped the ghetto with forged identity papers and joined the Polish resistance movement.[1]
Later life and death
After the war, Blady-Szwajger resumed her medical career as a pediatrician in Warsaw treating children with tuberculosis.[2][3] She later published her wartime recollections, first circulated in underground publications in the 1980s and released in book form in 1988.[1] She died of pancreatic cancer in Łódź on 18 February 1993, aged 75.[1][3] She was survived by two daughters and four grandchildren.[1]
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