YEHUDE (JULJUSZ) GENZEL

YEHUDE (JULJUSZ) GENZEL (b. July 1903)

            He was born in Vilna and studied in religious primary school.  In 1930 he graduated from high school and in 1926 from the medical faculty of Basel University.  Over the years 1927-1934, he was an assistant in the clinic at Vilna University.  From 1930 he was assistant professor of the history and philosophy of medicine.  He specialized in psychiatry and psychoanalysis.  He worked for the Vilna municipal management in that realm.  He was chair of the Vilna society for special education for Jewish children with defects.  He was a committee member of TOZ (Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia [Society for the protection of health]).  He was a doctor for “Mishmeret ḥolim” (Guardian of the sick) and in the Jewish public schools.  Starting in 1933 he published a series of popular articles on “industrial hygiene” in the Vilna weekly newspaper Hantverker-shtime (Vocie of artisans), edited by Nosn Rudner.  When Vilna was captured by the Germans, he served as doctor for the labor commando in the Vilna ghetto.

Sources: E. Y. Goldshmidt, in Vilne, a zamlbukh gevidmet der shtot vilne (Vilna, an anthology dedicated to the city of Vilna), ed. Y. Yeshurin (New York, 1935); Dr. M. Dvorzhetski (Mark Dvorzetsky), Yerusholayim delite in kamf un umkum (The Jerusalem of Lithuania in struggle and death) (Paris, 1948).