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Big place in history for the famous Lithuanian émigrés

LOUISWashkansky and Cecil Moss shared something in common before their paths crossed almost exactly 50 years ago in a way neither could have imagined. Their families having arrived in South Africa from Lithuania, the former earning his living in Cape Town as a greengrocer, the latter made a name for himself as a Springbok.
They met at the Groote Schuur Hospital before a six-hour operation which turned Dr Christiaan Barnard into a global celebrity. ‘Doc’ Moss was there in his professional capacity as an anaesthetist, part of a 30-strong team which made Washkansky a household name...

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