Pavla Jerina Lah
Pavla Jerina Lah | |
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| Born | 17 February 1915 |
| Died | 12 November 2007 (aged 92) Črni Vrh, Idrija, Slovenia |
| Alma mater | Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana University of Ljubljana |
| Occupations | Slovene surgeon and partisan |
| Employer(s) | Slovenian Military Partisan Hospital Pavla Institute of Transfusion of Serbia |
| Organization | Slovene Partisans |
| Awards | Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941 Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia |
Pavla Jerina Lah (17 February 1915 – 12 November 2007) was a Slovene surgeon and partisan. During World War II, a clandestine Slovenian Military Partisan Hospital was named after Lah, where she secretly treated activists. After the war, she completed a surgical specialism, worked as director of the Institute of Transfusion of Serbia and served as chair of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana.