departure
Dr Juliusz Kessling
28-08-20
Juliusz was born in Warsaw, where his first memories were of Nazi tanks. Survivor of a Warsaw Uprising explosion that killed a cousin and his grandmother, he was smuggled across immediate post-war frontiers by the Resistance, with his Dentist mother and reunited with his Gulag-survivor father, a Polish Army doctor. Juliusz arrived in England, aged 7, a refugee. He graduated M.B., Ch.B. from St Andrews, worked in Kidderminster, Dover and Canterbury hospitals before spending most of his professional life in General Practice, (with an enduring interest in Psychiatry) in Rochford, Essex and, for over 20 years, in Clapham, South London. His life-long passion for Art found expression in prolific, abstract painting. He was sustained by Art, books, music and love. He died peacefully, after a long illness, in his turn, loved and mourned by many. He leaves two sons, six grandchildren and two gre