“I need God to give me strength”
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Why this match?
Sometimes strength comes in the most difficult of circumstances. Servant of God Stanisława Leszczyńska discovered that when she was imprisoned in Auschwitz. Stanisława risked her life to defy the authorities by safely delivering over 3000 babies. Despite the squalor and awful surroundings, she didn’t lose a single mother or child.
When you need strength to face life’s battles, The Real Midwife of Auschwitz will show you that God gives us the graces when we need them, even if you can’t quite see them.
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The Real Midwife of Auschwitz
Description
Servant of God Stanisława Leszczyńska has become known as the Midwife of Auschwitz. She spent two years imprisoned in that infamous Nazi concentration camp, and during that time worked as a midwife for the many women who arrived pregnant. She delivered their babies – over three thousand of them – in horrifyingly squalid conditions, without basic medical supplies and risked being shot by the guards every time she had to walk the length of the camp to fetch a bucket of water. Miraculously, she never lost a baby or a mother in childbirth or from postpartum infection.
This first traditional biography in the English language not only recounts Stanisława’s time in Auschwitz, but tells the story of her remarkable holiness in living her vocation as a wife and mother, her devotion to the women she served as a midwife, and the deep faith and life of prayer that blossomed into the heroic virtue for which she is remembered.
Striking photography from Stanisława’s life and from Auschwitz, as well as a translation of Stanisława’s full testimony about her time in the concentration camp, accompany the text and bring the story of this holy woman to life.