The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis (72 page)

X-rays, 104, 193, 216

Yad Vashem, 247

R. Fleck’s statement at, 280

Yalta, 265, 283

yehadar hasheta
, 96

yellow fever vaccine, 238

Yeo-Thomas, Forest Frederick Edward, 253–56, 263–64, 282

Yiddish, 46, 73–74, 111

young patients, 35, 62, 155

Zagajewski, Adam, 284

zakladowka
, 160

Zakopane, 289

Zakrzewski, Marek, 150

Zamarstynowska hospital, 168–69

egota, 171

Zeiss (company), 71

Zeiss, Heinz, 25, 89–90, 105, 175

Zeitschrift für Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten
, 244

Zhang Hanmin, 66

Zinsser, Hans, 14, 18, 25, 29

Zionists, 73, 74

zoonotic epidemic, 161

uławski, Andrzej, 230–31, 278, 303

uławski, Mirosław, 159–62, 163, 230

Zyklon B gas, 3, 90, 193, 218

ALSO BY
ARTHUR ALLEN

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The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Weigl : how two brave scientists battled typhus
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-393-08101-5 (hardcover)

1. Weigl, Rudolf, 1883–1957. 2. Fleck, Ludwik, 1896–1961.
3. Typhus fever—Poland—History. 4. Scientists—Poland—Biography.
5. World War, 1939–1945—Underground movements—Poland.
6. Anti-Nazi movement—Poland. I. Title.

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