Zofia Zamenhof

Zofia Zamenhof (1889 to 1942) was a Polish pediatrician and the daughter of Klara Silbernik and L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto. She completed her medical studies at the University of Lausanne between 1906 and 1913, passed a state examination in Saint Petersburg in 1914 and specialized in internal and pediatric diseases. She worked at a hospital in Lebedyn and from 1922 at a hospital in Warsaw. During the Second World War she moved to the Warsaw Ghetto and went on practising medicine until she was taken from the Umschlagplatz in 1942 to the Treblinka extermination camp, where she was murdered. A symbolic tomb for her stands in the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw.