Stanisław Lem

Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), born in Lviv, the only son of a laryngologist, entered the university's faculty of medicine in 1940. Under the German occupation, his family, of Jewish descent, escaped the ghetto thanks to false papers, and he worked as a mechanic and welder. Repatriated to Kraków in 1946, he pursued his medical studies at the Jagiellonian University but refused to sit the final examinations so as not to become a military doctor. He left in 1982 for West Berlin and then Vienna, returned in 1988 and died in Kraków on 27 March 2006.

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