Wisniewski, Bronislaw

Dr. Bronislaw Wisniewski was born in Warsaw, Poland on November 28, 1909, to Leiba (Leon) Waksman and Jenta (Antonina) Szyszko. Having graduated from the Medical School of Warsaw in 1935, Dr. Wisniewski worked as an intern at the Jewish hospital (Czyste hospital) in Warsaw and then at the Wolski hospital at Plocka Street. After the German invasion of Poland, he moved to the ghetto and worked at the Jewish Hospital on Stawki Street and participated in clandestine teaching. When the Germans started destroying the ghetto and deporting people to Treblinka, he managed to get out of the ghetto and lived in hiding on the estate of Count Zamoyski near Lublin. With the mobilization of the physicians, he was incorporated to the Polish army and worked as the chief of internal medicine in a hospital arranged at the Bobolanum. In 1944 he moved to Bydgoszcz and then went back to Warsaw. He was in charge of the medical department of the military hospital at Koszykowa Street before his discharge from the army. After the war Dr. Wisniewski worked as the chief of internal medicine in a hospital at Zoliborz and then became a professor in the postgraduate medical school of Warsaw in 1950. In 1957 he went to Israel and stayed there for 14 months, working at Tel Hashomer Hospital. In his late forties he arrived in the United States and settled in New York, where he worked in Columbia Medical School (Bellevue) as an assistant to Andre Cournand and then in New York University Medical School until his retirement in July 1988.