Stefan Waydenfeld

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Stefan Waydenfeld


Born
in Otwock, Poland
June 18, 1925

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Dr. Stefan Waydenfeld was born 1925 in a suburb of Warsaw, Poland, to a successful and well-educated professional family. Waydenfeld’s father was a medical doctor who specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis in children and young adults, and his mother was a bacteriologist specializing in clinical pathology.

Waydenfeld was 14 years old when World War II began with the Nazi German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. Rushing to join his father in the Polish defense, young Waydenfeld encountered the Soviet army, which invaded from the east on September 17, 1939.

Soon he was dodging the daily tyranny of the Soviet occupiers—until the Soviets caught up with him and his parents, deporting them to a Siberian labor camp.

After their escape a
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“The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.”
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