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Kazimierz Witalis Szarski (9 January 1904 – 18 January 1960) was a Polish zoologist and professor at the University of Breslau who worked extensively on ornithology and wildlife conservation in Lower Silesia. Kazimierz came from a family of noblemen and was the son of Polish economist and senator Marcin and Olga née Budwiński. After schooling at Vienna and Kraków, he graduated from the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv in 1928 and worked for a while in the Department of Comparative Anatomy. He received a PhD in 1932, working under Kazimierz Kwietniewski on the anatomy of the urinary tract and associated glands of mice. At the end of 1938 he moved to the Jagiellonian University as assistant professor of zoology. The German invasion resulted in the closure of the university. Twenty one Polish professors of Jewish origin were shot between 3 and 4 July 1941 and Szarski narrowly escaped with his family. He had ancestors with the name Feintuch while his wife had the maiden name of Landau. Thanks to Rudolf Weigl who was a friend he was added to his laboratory as a worker. Weigl was working on serums against typhus and was treated with respect by the German war…