Tadeusz Pankiewicz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tadeusz Pankiewicz

Polish pharmacist

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1908

Place of Birth: Sambir, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 05-Nov-1993

Profession: pharmacist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Tadeusz Pankiewicz (November 21, 1908 in Sambor – November 5, 1993 buried in Kraków), was a Polish Roman Catholic pharmacist, operating in the Kraków Ghetto during the Nazi German occupation of Poland.
He was recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem on February 10, 1983, for rescuing countless Jews from the Holocaust. Pankiewicz studied at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
In 1933, he took over the proprietorship of the Under the Eagle Pharmacy founded in 1910 by his father Jozef.
The pharmacy was situated on Plac Zgody (formerly Maly Rynek square) in Kraków's Podgórze district.
Its prewar clientele included both Gentile Poles and Jews.