Julian Aleksandrowicz

Who was Julian Aleksandrowicz?

Julian Aleksandrowicz was a Polish medical professional, professor of medicine, a notable specialist on leukemia. He is known for having developed concepts of comprehensive psychotherapy of persons suffering from somatic diseases, as well as of the ecological prevention of cancer and leukaemia.

Aleksandrowicz was of Jewish descent, and after German invasion of Poland, he was imprisoned in the Kraków Ghetto. He founded one of the three ghetto hospitals. While in the ghetto, he was aided by one of the Polish Righteous, Józef Adamowicz. Later, in 1943, Aleksandrowicz managed to escape the ghetto and became a physician of the Polish resistance, Armia Krajowa in the Kielce-Radom Independent Jodła Region, under a nom-de-guerre Doktor Twardy. Eventually he became a platoon leader. For his participation in the resistance, he received the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari.

For most of his life, he lived in Kraków. He was an author of many medical texts, and a professor and a director of the notable Hematology Clinic at the Jagiellonian university medical college.