Łódź were awarded titles of Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. On their and their families initiative, a Survivors' Park adorned with monuments was built in Łódź, measuring . It was inaugurated in August 2009 by the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński in the presence of prominent dignitaries. A year later, the Park was awarded a medal for top urban design by the Towarzystwo Urbanistów Polskich. One of the Poles who helped the Jews in Łódź was a Catholic midwife Stanisława Leszczyńska. She and her family provided food, clothing and fake documents to many Jewish fugitives. Eventually, however, she and her family were arrested by the Germans. She and her daughter were deported to Auschwitz. Later on she became known for her effort to save many Jewish children; her sons were sent to stone quarries of Mauthausen. Notable inmates Lucjan Dobroszycki (1919–1995), scientist and historian Mendel Grossman (1913–1945), photographer, died during the Death Marches Georg John (1879–1941), actor from films such as M and The Last Laugh, died November 1941 Heda Margolius Kovály (1919–2010), author of an autobiography Under a Cruel Star Yisrael Kristal (1903–2017), the world's oldest living man in 2016–2017 and among the ten oldest verified men ever. Was deported from the Lodz Ghetto to Auschwitz in August 1944 but barely managed to survive—with him being severely emaciated and near-death at the time of his liberation by Red Army troops in January 1945. He subsequently recovered and died over 70 years later in August 2017, just a month before what would have been his 114th birthday. Rywka Lipszyc (1929–1945?), diarist, deported to Auschwitz in 1944 then to Bergen-Belsen in 1945, presumed to have died September 1945 Rudolf Margolius (1913–1952), victim of the Slánský trial Chava Rosenfarb (1923–2011), writer Oskar Rosenfeld (1884–1944), writer, ghetto chronicler, killed at Auschwitz Henryk Ross (1910–1991), photographer who documented conditions in the camp Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski (1877–1944), Judenälteste ("Elder of the Jews"), head of the Judenrat, killed at Auschwitz Ruth Minsky Sender (born 1926), author (The Cage, set partly in the ghetto) Jakob Edmund Speyer (1872–1942), medicinal chemist, co-inventor of oxycodone (Eukodal), died on 5 May 1942 Salomon Szapiro (aka Dr. Szeffer, 1882–1941), medical doctor and chess master, died in the ghetto 18 November 1941 Jack Tramiel (1928–2012), founder of Commodore International, owner of Atari Maurycy Trębacz (1861–1941), painter, died of hunger in the ghetto on 29 January 1941 See also