Alfred Weinstein

Dr. Alfred Abraham Weinstein, physician, author, and sculptor, was born in 1908 in Boston, Massachusetts, and died February 25, 1964 in Boston. Weinstein moved to Atlanta in 1938, after completing five years of post-graduate research work in surgery, medicine, and cardiology, to enter private practice and teach surgery at Emory University. He interrupted his practice to serve in the U. S. Army and spent three and one half years as a P.O.W. in Japan. His experiences as a P.O.W. were the basis for his best selling book, BARBED-WIRE SURGEON (eight printings).

During World War II as he retreated to Bataan Philippines with his 2000 bed battle casualty hospital, he was seriously wounded by bomb shrapnel.. While a P.O.W. in Japan for 3 1/2 years, he was sent to Omori punishment camp where he did coolie labor, for demanding more food and medicine for his patients. He received three Presidential Citations, commendation from Presidents Eisenhower and Truman, two Purple Hearts, a Bronze star and other military honors.