Ester and her new husband Filip Pasternak, along with their parents and siblings, were rounded up and sent to the new Ghetto in Lotz as the Germans infiltrated the town more and more. Their home was given to the troops while they had to live all together, including with strangers, in a different house within the Ghetto. Midwife, Ana Kaminski, Ester’s good friend, was Polish, against Ester and her family’s Jewish ancestry, so Ana and her family were outside the Ghetto in their own home. But when Ana and her sons decided to help the Jews as much as they could, they brought danger to their door. Most pregnant women at Auschwitz were simply sent to the gas chambers. Women who found out they were pregnant at the camp were sometimes given abortions by Gisella Perl, a doctor who helped prevent hundreds of women from giving birth. Often, when women were discovered to be pregnant they were summarily executed.

Midwife at Auschwitz Delivered 3,000 Babies in - HISTORY This Midwife at Auschwitz Delivered 3,000 Babies in - HISTORY

Lo importante de rescatar es la esperanza y el único sentido de vida de las protagonistas, que es sobrevivir para encontrar a sus seres queridos. Leszczyńska’s great-niece Maria Stachurska is now directing a new documentary about her life. Kalbar/TFN German women carrying children in a Lebensborn center. (Credit: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) Me ha encantado la manera de dividirlo en tres partes, antes del campo, durante y después y la narración a dos voces. The Midwife of Auschwitz by Anna Stuart is based on a true story, and it’s hard to believe the incredible courage that some people kept within themselves. The little newborns, some of whom were taken by the Nazis and delivered to German families, were exterminated because they were Jewish. Others who survived were hidden, and some were tattooed with their mother’s identification number under their arm, so they’d be found after the war. The horrors of war, of the Holocaust, and of the Nazi’s brutality, will never leave us - and neither should it. Highly recommended.

After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany at the onset of World War II, the Leszczyński family was forced to relocate to Wspólna 3 Street when the Łódź Ghetto was created for the Jews by the Nazi occupation administration. Żurawia Street, where they used to live, became part of the ghetto area. The Leszczyńskis began helping ghettoized Jews by delivering food items and false documents. [5] [6] [7] [8] However, Stanisława was caught red-handed, and brought to the Gestapo on February 18, 1943. Her younger children, Sylwia, Stanisław, and Henryk were also arrested. Her husband and son Bronisław managed to avoid capture and fled the city. The Nazis sent the two boys as slave labour to the stone quarries of Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. [1] Leszczyńska never saw her husband again; he died in the Warsaw Uprising. [4] Auschwitz concentration camp Discovered by the Gestapo in February 1943, Leszczyńska was sent to Auschwitz where, once the Nazi guards discovered she was a trained midwife, she was assigned to work in what was euphemistically called a maternity ward.

Midwife Auschwitz Inspired Heartbreaking by Stuart Anna

This is inspired by the true life story of Stanislawa Leszczynska, a Polish midwife. This was not an easy read, it was truly heartbreaking but it was a powerful story that will stay with me. This was a beautifully written novel of motherhood, friendship, love, faith, and survival. Absolutely stunning … pulled me out of a reading slump and bought me to tears … heart wrenching … The tragedy mixed with a tale of friendship, survival and motherhood. The ending had me in tears at my desk at work .’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Oh, and this is based on a true story which I still have to look up but I was intrigued by that as well! Auschwitz is best known as a place of death—a hellish extermination camp, the largest of its kind, where at least 1.1 million people are thought to have been murdered. So it’s strange to think of the camp as a place of life as well.

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The entire WW2 history, as Hitler's regime attempted to exterminate Jewish people at all costs, is always heart wrenching, dispiriting, and distressing to read. And few authors can paint a picture of this time, with such vivid, disturbing details, but also while creating a beautiful story of love, strength, and resilience. However, Anna Stuart succeeds at that in her novel The Midwife of Auchwitz. A partir de aquí ambas amigas se encontraran en el tren camino a los campos de trabajo. Y después lucharan juntas por sobrevivir y por las madres y los niños que allí se encuentran.