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Horrific Then, Horrific Now: This Auschwitz Survivor was a Midwife Who Delivered 3,000 Babies, Watched Them Murdered

Mark Ellis : Feb 21, 2019
Godreports.com

Most babies were killed at Auschwitz during the first few moments of life. In her two years at the camp, Stanislawa Leszczyńska delivered 3,000 babies. She even stood up to the infamous "Angel of Death," Josef Mengele, when he ordered her to murder the infants.

(Poland)—[God Reports] This Polish midwife was ordered to murder all the babies she delivered at Auschwitz. With God's help, she was able to rescue a few from certain death at the hands of her Nazi overlords. (Photo: Stanislawa Leszczyńska/ via God Reports)

Stanislawa Leszczyńska was born in Lodz, a town situated in the heart of Poland. When the Nazis invaded her country in 1939 this wife, mother and midwife joined the Polish resistance, according to a report by Aleteia.

As part of her work with the underground, she provided fake documents and food for those in Jewish ghettos.

After her family's efforts were discovered by the Gestapo, she and her daughter were sent to Auschwitz. Her husband and oldest son escaped, but she would never see her spouse again; he was killed in later fighting during the war.

At Auschwitz, Stanislawa volunteered as a midwife. Many women were executed when their pregnancy was discovered, but others managed to continue their pregnancy until delivery. (Photo: Women in the barracks at Auschwitz/via God Reports)

Stanislawa was sent to work in the maternity ward, which was a "set of filthy barracks that was less a place to care for pregnant women than a place to usher them into death," according to History.com.

The Nazi female collaborators who managed the ward, "Sister" Klara and "Sister" Pfani, announced newborns were "stillborn,"—even if alive. Horrifically, they proceeded to drown the babies in buckets in front of the new mothers... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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