משתמש:Ofirt1/Chaim Hillel Fried (doctor)
| לידה | 11 October 1913 |
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| פטירה | 21 November 2008 |
| מקצוע | cardiologist |
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Prof. Chaim Hillel Fried (October 11, 1913 - November 21, 2008) was an Israeli cardiologist, head of departments and acting director of the Donolo Hospital in Jaffa.
Biography[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
His cousins are Prof. Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson and Prof. Yonah Ben-Sasson, the father of Prof. Menachem Ben-Sasson.
Prof. Fried graduated in medicine from the University of Vilna. He was preparing to make aliyah to Eretz Israel but remained in Lithuania to help his father injured in an accident. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 and the conquest of Vilna, his father was one of the first to be murdered in Ponar. Prof. Fried himself lived in Ghetto Vilna and worked as a physician until the ghetto was liquidated in September 1943. He was then interned in several concentration camps, eventually arriving at the Dautmergen labor camp in southwestern Germany. In April 1945, he marched with the rest of the prisoners on a death march during which he managed to escape with some of his friends.
After the war, in 1946, Prof. Fried made aliyah to Eretz Israel via Egypt. He settled in Jerusalem, and in the absence of normal work positions being available, worked as a volunteer in the ward of Moshe Rachmilevich (one of the fathers of medicine in Israel) at Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus. After leaving the hospital in 1948, during the War of Independence, he headed Internal Medicine Department B at the Government Hospital in Jaffa. In 1970, Prof. Fried became the hospital's acting director. Later, he headed the Internal Medicine Department at Wolfson Hospital in Holon.
Prof. Fried was a cardiac catheterization specialist. The courses in cardiology he taught were the basis for the establishment of the School of Continuing Education in Medicine at Tel Aviv University. He served as President of the Scientific Council of the Israel Medical Association.
In the year 2000, he was awarded the honorary title of Yakir Tel Aviv.
He was married to Sarah Fried (1926–2011), and was the father of Yael, Shali and Yehuda.
Chaim Hillel Fried died in the fall of 2008; he was 95 at the time of his death and was buried in the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery. His wife died two and a half years later and was buried beside him.
Prof. Fried was born in the city of Vilna in Lithuania, the son of a long and privileged rabbinical dynasty, a descendant of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin (one of the most important students of the Vilna Gaon, and founder of Yeshivat Etz Chaim - Yeshivat Volozhin – the "Mother of Yeshivot"), and the son-in-law of Rabbi Hillel Fried. His grandfather, Rabbi Chaim Hillel Fried - the grandson of Rabbi Hillel - was Deputy Head of the Volozhin Yeshiva, the author of the "Chut Hameshulash Responsa" (who died two years before the birth of Chaim Hillel Fried who is named after him); his father, Rabbi Shmuel Fried, replaced Vilna's chief Rabbi.
External links[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
- Uri Darumi, the patients smiled after him with love: Prof. Haim Hillel Fried, one of the founders of the "Donolo" hospital, 1913-2008, on the Haaretz website, December 7, 2008
- A photograph of Fried in his youth at the Yad Vashem site
Footnotes[עריכת קוד מקור | עריכה]
- The exact dates of birth and death according to the page of the deceased on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa and district Hevre Kadisha website.
- Yakirei Tel Aviv-Jaffa, the Tel Aviv Municipality website.