Background
Yavorkovsky, Lasar Israel was born on November 27, 1910 in Riga, Latvia. Son of Israel Abram and Ljubov Jakob (Levin) Yavorkovsky.
Yavorkovsky, Lasar Israel was born on November 27, 1910 in Riga, Latvia. Son of Israel Abram and Ljubov Jakob (Levin) Yavorkovsky.
Doctor of Medicine, Latvian Medical Academy, Riga, 1934; Doctor of Science, Latvian Medical Academy, Riga, 1956.
Resident medical faculty, U. Riga, 1934-1939; assistant medical faculty, U. Riga, 1939-1941; chief department internal medicine, Stradin Hospital, Riga, 1946-1962; associate professor, Latvian Medical Academy, 1962-1972; professor postgraduate education, chief department leukemia research clinical branch, Latvian Medical Academy, since 1973. Chief hematologist Institute Health, Riga, 1974-1989.
Held prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp, Riga and Germany, 1941-1945. Member Association Hematologists (president 1964-1992, member presidium since 1992), Latvian Physician Association, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Hematol. Society (honorary), Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Labor Society (honorary), Latvian Academy of Sciences (honorary).
Married Ella Shapiro, 1939 (deceased November 1941). Married Erna Janis Rozens, October 1954. Children: Leonid, Ljuba.