Alfred Balachowskyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Alfred Serge Balachowsky (15 August 1901, Karotcha /Kursk - 1983 Paris ) was a French entomologist born in Russia. He specialised in Homoptera : Coccoidea but also worked on Coleoptera. Balachowsky worked at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. In 1948 he was elected president of the Société entomologique de France.

Balachowsky was part of the Prosper Network in Paris during WWII, a spy network run by the British SOE. After the network was infiltrated and betrayed, Balachowsky was arrested and ultimately imprisoned at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp outside Weimar, Germany. There, he was put to work developing a vaccine for typhus. He also went to work helping the various underground groups inside the camp and established a network of contacts who fed him information from the camp's commanders. Balachowsky was instrumental in the survival of several British SOE officers who were among a group sent to Buchenwald for execution. Most of the group were murdered there, but several, most notably Edward Yeo-Thomas, escaped through the help of Balachowsky and his staff who helped them impersonate typhus patients in their test group. It is also believed that Balachowsky had a hand in getting 168 Allied airmen imprisoned in Buchenwald out of the camp and into the hands of the German Luftwaffe just days before they were set to be executed.

After the war, Balachowsky testified at the Nuremberg Trials.