{"id":34327,"date":"2026-07-29T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/publikacje\/o-pewnej-szczepionce-ze-lwowa\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:34:06","slug":"o-pewnej-szczepionce-ze-lwowa","status":"publish","type":"publikacje","link":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/publikacje\/o-pewnej-szczepionce-ze-lwowa\/","title":{"rendered":"About a vaccine from Lviv"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During the Nazi occupation, the modern rooms were converted into a research institute headed by Rudolf Weigl, a professor at the University of Lviv. He created a center of research on typhus in Lviv with wide publicity, a meeting place for the most eminent scientists in the interwar period. At that time, a world-renowned biologist discovered a vaccine for one of the deadliest diseases ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the war, the Weigel Institute on Zielona Street became a place where the lives of Lviv people were saved, hiring them to feed lice used in the study. The Institute’s collaborators, including so-called lice feeders, received documents and food allowance to protect them. In this way, the professor helped about four thousand people. He saved, among others Stefan Banach and Zbigniew Herbert. The typhus vaccine produced at his Institute was illegally transferred to civilians fighting underground, and was also sent to the Lviv and Warsaw ghettos.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A great biologist and a man who saved thousands of people, although he was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times, he never received it. He was buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Krakow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The building described was\u00a0presented at the\u00a0one of\u00a0the exhibits\u00a0“Lviv, 24th June 1937. City, architecture, modernism”<\/a>\u00a0(ICC Gallery, 2018), presenting models of major Lviv modernist buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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