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(More customer reviews)Where we come from and what drives us is a question that is asked often, but Hirszfeld did much to turn it into a science, among other things in his life "The Story of One Life: Ludwik Hirszfeld" is a republishing of the famed geneticist's autobiography with added content from editors Marta A. Balinska & William H. Schneider. A holocaust survivor and great contributor to the study of human genetics, this story blends history with science, following his life as a war physician in World War I to his utter disgust with the events of World War II. Brilliantly translated by Balinska, "The Story of One Life" is a thoughtful and highly historical read that belongs in any biography collection.
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Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), one of the most prominent serologists of the twentieth century, established the nomenclature and the inheritance of blood groups, and opened the field of human population genetics. He also carried out ground-breaking research in the genetics of disease and immunology. Following World War II, he founded Poland's first Institute of Immunology in Wroclaw, which now bears his name. His autobiographical memoir, The Story of One Life, first published in Poland in 1946, immediately became a bestseller and has been reedited several times since. It is an outstanding account of a Holocaust survivor and a writer capable of depicting the uniqueness and the tragedy of countless individuals caught up in the nightmare of 1939-45. He recollects his time as a physician in the Serbian army in 1915 and his satisfaction as one of the scientific elite who rebuilt Poland after the Treaty of Versailles; in so doing the contrast between the world before and the world after World War II could not be starker. Hirszfeld escaped from the Warsaw ghetto in 1943; he hid the manuscript for this book, and retrieved it only after the war. Drawing on interviews with Hirszfeld's former students and family, as well as unpublished documents, this translation is annotated and has an introduction written by two scholars with unique qualifications to understand both the immediate setting in which Hirszfeld lived his life, and the broader implications of his work to the history of medicine.
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