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Dr. Joseph Jaksy (right) poses with a colleague at the entrance to his clinic in Bratislava.

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    Dr. Joseph Jaksy (right) poses with a colleague at the entrance to his clinic in Bratislava.
    Dr. Joseph Jaksy (right) poses with a colleague at the entrance to his clinic in Bratislava.

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    Caption
    Dr. Joseph Jaksy (right) poses with a colleague at the entrance to his clinic in Bratislava.
    Date
    Circa 1935
    Locale
    Bratislava, [Slovakia] Czechoslovakia
    Variant Locale
    Pozsony
    Pressburg
    Slovakia
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Amira Kohn-Trattner

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    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Amira Kohn-Trattner

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    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.
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