He duped Nazis, saved thousands By faking a typhus epidemic, doctor spared Polish villagers--Jews and gentiles alike--from World War II death camps

Because Eugene Lazowski was a doctor, he believed he should notkill. He would not even shoulder a rifle.

But he also could not stand by while other good and innocentpeople were killed.

And so when the Nazis overran Poland in World War II, Lazowskiyearned to find a way to fight back, to protect human life, and heseized upon a paradoxical instrument of salvation--the German army'sprofound fear of disease.

While German industrialist Oskar Schindler, whose heroic story wastold in the movie "Schindler's List," employed bribes and influenceto protect as many as 1,000 Jews who worked in his factory, Lazowskislyly used medical science to save the lives of thousands of …