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Duration: 45 minutes Director: Adina Andrițoiu On May 16, 1905, their seventh and last child, Constantin, was born in Târgu-Jiu, in the house of Grigore and Ana Lupescu. The father, Grigore Lupescu, was a merchant and had a blacksmith shop on Tudor Vladimirescu Street, opposite the current hospital. After finishing the primary classes, the Tudor Vladimirescu High School follows, which at that time held its classes in the premises of the current "Constantin Săvoiu" High School. He graduated from high school in 1924, with the mention Magna cum laudae. Passionate about medicine since high school, on the one hand, and on the other, following the example of his two older brothers, already doctors, Constantin Lupescu takes the exam at the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest with the eminent professor Victor Babeș. During that period, he also had the opportunity to meet the historian Nicolae Iorga, who served as rector of the University of Bucharest. The year after graduating from the faculty, C. Lupescu defends his doctorate in medicine and begins his work as a doctor in Muscel, where his colleague and friend, Ștefan Iorga, was also. ........................ In September 1939, Hitler invades Poland. Tens of thousands of Poles take refuge in Romania. A camp is being built for these refugees in Târgu-Jiu. The doctor of this camp is named dr. Constantin Lupescu who, at the time, was the head of the Infectious Diseases Section. The attention and devotion with which he looked after them were not forgotten by them. After the Poles left, the camp remained for political prisoners during the time of Marshal Antonescu. We had legionnaires and communists there in the camp. I detested the extremist parties, but I was a doctor and the Hippocratic oath says this: "Treat your worst enemy as your closest relative", so I didn't treat people there, I treated the sick. .............................. Dr. Constantin Lupescu died on July 24, 2003, at the age of 98.