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The Midwife

0 %|Jun 1, 2020|Documentary, History, War

In 1943 Stanislawa Leszczynska was arrested by gestapo as a result of helping Lodz ghetto prisoners and sent down to concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau together with her three children. There she went through the dreadful trial. Stanislawa worked as a midwife facing inhuman conditions, on the edge of exhaustion, she delivered 3000 labors not loosing any child - Her name - as one of four outstanding Polish women of the last century - was placed on Life and Changing the Nation Goblet sacrificed by Polish women in Jasna Gora Monastery. What was the secret of this extraordinary woman? Where did her strength came from? Why even facing death she has never lost faith in what she was doing?

Featured Crew

Michał Lorenc
Sound
Pawel Sobczyk
Photo Retouching
Błażej Moder
Co-Producer
Maria Stachurska
Director
Maria Stachurska
Writer
Jędrzej Sabliński
Co-Producer

Cast

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Hanna Polk
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