Dr. Ari Leon Heller

Ari Leo HelIer, b.1917, graduated from the Warsaw University Medical School. He worked together with his mother, Dr. Anna Braude-Heller (who headed the Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital, where she perished). During the ghetto period he was involved in research on metabolic changes in the hunger disease. He and his family survived on the Aryan side of Warsaw, contrary to the notification of his death. In the post-war period he initially worked in Lublin, and in 12.7.1946 he is listed at the University of Wroclaw. Dr. Helier immigrated to Sweden in 1948, where he became associate professor at the National Bacteriology (Karolinska) Laboratory in Stockholm, a position he held until his death in 2008.