Jadwiga Dzido

Jadwiga Dzido (26 January 1918 – 10 December 1985) was a Polish resistance worker and pharmacy student who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp where she was subjected to forced operations.

[3] Encouraged by Nowinski, she began studying at the University of Warsaw in 1938, hoping to earn a degree in pharmacy.

She joined the Union of Armed Struggle resistance movement, helping to distribute anti-fascist news articles.

On 21 September 1941, she was deported to Ravensbrück where in November 1942, together with nine other women, she was subjected to medical experiments designed to investigate the effects of sulphonamide drugs on wounds.

[2] She not only suffered a high fever and great pain, but an incision in her leg caused muscle atrophy and unconsciousness for an extended period.

Photograph of Jadwiga Dzido revealing the scars on her leg caused by Nazi experiments entered as evidence in Doctors' Trial ca. 9 December 1946 - 20 August 1947
Jadwiga Dzido shows scars on her leg from medical experiments to the Doctors' Trial on December 20, 1946