Doctor and dentist, long-time researcher at the Medical University of Wrocław.
She was born in Warsaw on November 24, 1912, to a Jewish family. In 1937, she graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Warsaw and in 1939 from the Academy of Dentistry. In 1940, she was relocated to the Warsaw Ghetto. In the ghetto, she took a job at the surgical hospital at 1 Leszno Street and also as the head of the dental office in the Jewish community's outpatient clinic. In the summer of 1942, she married doctor Henryk Makower. In January 1943, both Makowers managed to escape from the ghetto. They then hid in Miłosna near Warsaw under the care of Dr. Emil Paluch and a group of friends. In August 1944, in liberated Lublin, Noemi joined the Polish Army. She was assigned to Evacuation Hospital No. 62, where she served as head of the Maxillofacial Surgery Department.
In 1946, she began working as a senior assistant at the Dental Clinic at the Faculty of Medicine of the Wrocław University and University of Technology. From 1964 to 1983, she served as head of the Department of Prosthodontics at the Wrocław Medical Academy. She introduced and popularized fluoride-based caries prevention in Poland and developed improved methods of prosthetic rehabilitation. From 1986, she lived in Sweden, where she died in Stockholm on February 7, 2015.
Noemi Wigdorowicz-Makowerowa | photo from the private collection of Dr. Barbara Bruziewicz-Mikłaszewska
