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Ewa Herbst.

Ewa Herbst, PhD, is a scientist and an electrical and biomedical engineer. However, her latest publications are more personal: a poetry book Dokument podróży (Travel Document) ; an article about her great uncle, Herman Diamand, one of the leading Galician and Polish politicians; and a book Visionaries from Lviv: the Story of a Jewish Hospital, where she is an editor and contributes a chapter about her great-grandfather Maurycy/Moritz Lazarus, a banker, politician, and philanthropist who founded the Jewish Hospital in Lviv, then Lemberg/Lwów, the city where her mother’s family has its roots.