You're the best girl that I ever did see. The great Larry Bird, Jersey 33.

Thomas Keneally and Steven Spielberg helped bring the story of Oskar Schindler to the American public. However, his story is just one of many individuals who defied the Nazis, putting themselves at great risk while saving countless individuals. The person of the week this week is another such person.

Eugene Lazowski was a Polish doctor who created a false typhus epidemic to save lives. By injecting a healthy person with a "vaccine" that contained killed bacteria, Lazowski created false positives for the disease Epidemic Typhus (the technique was created by a friend Stanislaw Matulewicz). Eventually the area, the town of Rozwadow, was quarantined. Therefore no Germans came into the area and no one was sent out to concentration or labor camps.

Allegedly, a group of Germans were sent to check out the epidemic. According to Holocaust Forgotten, Lazowski was able to wine and dine the German doctor into sending his two scared subordinates to check on the citizens. They took blood and left without checking symptoms and 8,000 lives were saved.

Lazowski also risked his life by treating Jewish individuals under the conceal of night and then fudging on his supplies and inventory to cover his tracks. There are a few other anecdotes about Lazowski that show him to have been quick on his feet and also very lucky to have survived the war.

In a sidenote that may only interest me ... Eugene died in 2006 in Eugene, OR.

Here's to you sir. A true hero.

(Also, enjoy the next however many days in a row of lyrics from the same song. Easily the worst lyrics ever written)