This article, prepared on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the World War II outbreak, serves to remind the war generation of pharmacists and their sacrifices through several selected personalities. In several short medallions it recalls the lives of heroes Tadeusz Pankiewicz and Laure Gatet, the German tanker Otto Carius and it mentions several other personalities. From the post-war generation it presents Jean-Claude Pressac as the author of the evidence elaboration on the Holocaust.

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