Funeral services were held here today for Prof. Mark Dworzetsky, a physician and Holocaust research scholar, who died yesterday at the age of 67. His funeral was attended by hundreds of former partisan fighters of the Wilno ghetto and other survivors of that once flourishing Jewish community in Lithuania,
Dr. Dworzetsky, himself a partisan fighter in the Wilno region during World War 11, was a leader of the World Organization of Jewish Partisans and the Partisans and Ghetto Fighters Organization of Israel. Until recently he held the Holocaust studies chair at Bar Ilan University and was a member of the board of the Yad Vashem Memorial Institute.
While an inmate of a Nazi concentration camp he studied the physical behavior of fellow inmates from a medical viewpoint, their nutrition and problems of rehabilitating normal physical functions. These aspects of his experiences became the subjects of several books he wrote on the Holocaust.
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