Julius Ciembroniewicz

August 2, 1929 – March 18, 2018
Silesia, Poland

Dr. Julius Ciembroniewicz was a young teenager when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. Forced into a life on the run, his family was separated and he spent the war hiding in a Salvatorian monastery. Upon liberation, Julius was reunited with his mother and brother and restarted his education. Julius graduated from medical school in Poland as a physician and a neurosurgeon in 1955. In 1959, he was selected by the British Medical Counsel as one of the two “most promising young neurosurgeon” physicians in neurosurgery and received a stipend that permitted him to practice anywhere in the world. He defected to England and, soon afterwards, to the United States where he eventually settled in Maine, practicing as a neurosurgeon in Augusta, Waterville, Lewiston and Togus.