Janina Oyrzanowska-Poplewska

Janina Oyrzanowska-Poplewska (2 May 1918 – 16 July 2001) was a Polish academic and veterinarian. A professor at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, she specialized in epizootiology but her main area of research concerned viral diseases of canines, which led to the development of the first vaccine for canine distemper in Poland.

Janina Oyrzanowska-Poplewska
Born
Janina Róża Oyrzanowska

(1918-05-02)2 May 1918
Warsaw, Regency Kingdom of Poland
Died16 July 2001(2001-07-16) (aged 83)
Warsaw, Poland
NationalityPolish
Other namesJanina Ojrzanowska-Poplewska
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw (DVM, PhD)
OccupationVeterinarian
Years active1947 – late 20th century
RelativesRobert Fryderyk Stichel (great-grandfather)
FamilyHouse of Ojrzanowski / Oyrzanowski
HonoursRighteous Among the Nations, Golden Cross of Merit, Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Order of the Commission of National Education
Righteous
Among the Nations
  • The Holocaust
  • Rescuers of Jews
  • Righteousness
  • Seven Laws of Noah
  • Yad Vashem
By country
  • Austrian
  • Croatian
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Lithuanian
  • Norwegian
  • Polish (list)
  • Romanian
  • Serbian
  • Ukrainian

During World War II, she was involved with Polish resistance, and her family helped a number of refugees. In 1981, she was honored as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for her efforts to save Jews during the Holocaust.

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