In the late 1950s, Polish Prime Minister Józef Cyrankiewicz came to the USSR on an official visit. In addition to the main program of his visit, the Polish Prime Minister wanted to award the highest Polish military decoration to his savior, the former inmate of Mathausen, the Soviet doctor and prisoner of war Sasha Grigorievsky. It was Sasha, a camp nurse, who had saved the life of the leader of Polish patriots. However, upon arrival in the USSR, it was learned that the Ukrainian Sasha Grigorievsky was in fact a Jew from Kharkov, Alexander Mosevich Ioselyevich, who had been hiding under an assumed name during the 4 years he spent in the concentration camp.
