Kanabus Family

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Kanabus, Feliks
Kanabus, Irena (1911-?) [wife]

While still a medical student at Warsaw University, Feliks Kanabus was known for his strong stand against antisemitic hooligans who victimized Jewish students. Even after becoming a successful surgeon, he continued defending his beleaguered Jewish compatriots.

As a surgeon in a pediatric hospital, Kanabus admitted Jewish children who escaped from the ghetto, devising fictitious charts for them which enabled them to stay there until a refuge was found for them. Later, Dr. Kanabus began helping his Jewish medical colleagues leave the ghetto. Among his many activities on behalf of Jews.



Kanabus performed cosmetic operations on Jewish-looking refugees, as well as circumcision-reversal procedures (Elongatio Praeputii), with the help of his wife, Irena, who acted as his assistant. Among the refugees helped by Dr. Kanabus were: Dr. Mieczysław Tursz, Dr. Zdzisław Askanas and his six-year-old son, Aleksander, Dr. Bronisław Wiśniewski, and Jan Fuerstenberg.
In risking their lives to help Jews, the Kanabus were guided by humanitarian motives, which overrode considerations of personal safety or economic hardship.

On September 21, 1965, Yad Vashem recognized Dr. Feliks Kanabus as Righteous Among the Nations.
On October 18, 1995, Yad Vashem recognized Irena Kanabus as Righteous Among the Nations.