Balin, Marek Marc
Birth Name | Balin, Marek Marc |
Call Name | Marc |
Gender | male |
Events
Event | Date | Place | Description | Notes | Sources |
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Education | Marek Balin left Poland to attend medical school in Paris |
Event Note Marek Balin was trapped in Warsaw by the German occupation, when he returned home to visit. Halina Birenbaum, Marek Balin's sister, recalled in her book, "Hope is the Last to Die," that before she was sent to a concentration camp, Marek smuggled food to the family, and personally continued her schooling.
In testimony for Holocaust researchers, Marek Balin recalled how Jewish doctors were forced to choose which hospital patients should become part of the Nazis' deportation of Jews to concentration camps: "The doctors stopped at each bed for a longer time than usual.
After his escape, Marek Balin was sheltered in Warsaw by a Catholic woman, Jozefa Bartosiewicz. |
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Marriage | Marek Balin married Jeanine |
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Degree | 1945 | Uniwersytet Warszawski (University of Warsaw), Warszawa, Polska | Marek Balin earned his medical degree |
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Degree | Université de Paris (University of Paris), Paris, Île-de-France, France | Marek Balin earned his diploma in anesthesiology |
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Occupation | Marek Balin was a doctor |
Event Note Marek (Marc) Balin and Jeanine immigrated to Cleveland, where he taught at Case Western Reserve University. Marc Balin established the department of anesthesiology at Lake County Memorial Hospital, in Painesville. |
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Death | 2006 | Marc Marek Balin died of a stroke |
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Parents
Father | Holcman, Meir Zelig |
Mother | Gostinski (Gostynski), Rywcia (Rivka) |
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Families
Married | Wife | Unknown, Jeanine |
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Web Links
Type | Link/ Description | |
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1 | Web Search | Survivor: A story of the Warsaw Ghetto, posted by Brian Albrecht |
2 | Web Search | The "Selection" in Czyste Hospital, Warsaw, Testimony of Dr. Marek Balin |
Pedigree
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Holcman, Meir Zelig
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Gostinski (Gostynski), Rywcia (Rivka)
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