Balin, Marek

Dr. Marek (Marc) Balin was born in Warsaw, Poland on July 5th, 1918, to Adam Balin and Paulina Kijewska. Dr. Balin went to the medical school of Sorbonne University in Paris, France before being called back to Warsaw by the Polish Embassy in 1939. He worked at the Jewish Hospital (Czyste Hospital) in the Warsaw ghetto as an in-house staff after the invasion and continued his medical training in the Warsaw ghetto underground medical school from May 1941 to July 1942, when the massive deportations began. Having managed to escape from the Treblinka deportations, he was sheltered in Warsaw until the liberation of the city in 1945. Dr. Balin obtained his MD at the University of Warsaw in 1948 and then a diploma in anesthesiology at the University of Paris. in 1956, Dr. Balin moved to Cleveland, U. S., where he became a Lake County Memorial Hospital physician and anesthesiologist, got married, and had two daughters (Paulette Balin Yasinow and Joyce Fried). Dr. Balin died in 2006 of a stroke.