Portrait of Dr. Joseph Jaksy standing at the entrance to a building.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 89113

Date: Circa 1935
Locale: Bratislava, [Slovakia] Czechoslovakia
Variant Locale: Pozsony
Pressburg
Slovakia
Photo Designation: RESCUERS & RESCUED -- Czechoslovakia
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Amira Kohn-Trattner

Biography: Dr. Joseph Jaksy (1900-1991) was a Slovak urologist from Bratislava who served as the personal physician to Andrej Hlinka, founder of the Slovak People's Party, and other leading members of the fascist regime that ruled Slovakia during WWII. During this period Jaksy used his privileged status to organize rescue efforts that saved at least 25 Jews from deportation. Together with a group of friends, Jaksy devised a four point plan for rescue that included finding shelter; providing money, food and medical care; forging identification papers and falsifying medical records; and helping people to get out of the country. Though suspected of involvement with the resistance, Jaksy was never arrested. After the war Jaksy remained in Czechoslovakia until 1948. Fearing persecution by the new communist regime, he went to the U.S. on a visiting medical fellowship and remained. He was honored posthumously by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
Keyword: CLOSE-UPS
DOORWAYS
JAKSY, JOSEPH
PHYSICIANS
RESCUERS/RESCUE
RESCUERS/RESCUE (PRE-WAR)
RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS
SLOVAKS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Amira Kohn-Trattner
: Record last modified: 2001-11-28 00:00:00
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