Professor Jakub Oskar Karol Parnas

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nbuv.gov.ua .. Professor Jakub Parnas was an outstanding biochemist in the field of enzymol ogy of carbohydrate metabolism (EmbdenMeyerhofParnas pathway) and energy generation at that metabolism. In Poland, he is considered to be a father of Polish biochemistry.." OR lwow.com.pl .. Still in Ufa professor Parnas realized that his son Jan Oskar Parnas born and educated in free Poland has been feeling himself to be of Polish nationality. Professor Parnas recognized his fault committed in January 1941 and recommended to his son to enter the Polish corps by general Anders on the Soviet Union's territory. Consequently, the young Jan Oskar Parnas took par in the conquest of Monte Cassino by the Polish corps of general Anders. After the war was finished he returned to Poland, By an unpredictable turn of fate his father professor Parnas has been arrested by NKGB in Moscov and died at the examination aft being brought to the prison on January 29,1949. He has been calunmiausly accused of spying for a western country..