The film is based on the real life story of Stanisława Leszczyńska whose actions helped save newborns from immediate extermination.

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Adentrándonos en la segunda parte, en la cual se desarrolla toda la verdadera trama de la novela, seremos testigos de la eficiente, aunque inhumana y cruel maquinaria de degradación humana, arrebatadora de fuerzas y autoestima y de muerte, que fueron capaces de construir y mantener los nazis en sus campos de concentración. The Midwife of Auschwitz: Inspired by a heartbreaking true story, an emotional and gripping World War 2 historical novel In early 1945, the Nazis forced most inmates of Auschwitz to leave the camp on a “death march” to other camps. Leszczyńska refused to depart, and stayed in the camp until its liberation. Readers will discover that Ana’s desire to help others is what originally landed her in Auschwitz. She was caught smuggling documents and food, ‘liberated loaves,’ to Jews inside the Łódź Ghetto as part of the Polish resistance. Even the Nazis couldn’t tame her spirit; she stood up to them at her friends’ wedding and to Dr. Josef Mengele in the camp. Not only that, but she also secretly ensured that those children she delivered who survived had an opportunity to discover who they were and possibly connect with their birth mothers. The Midwife of Auschwitz: Inspired by a heartbreaking true story; an emotional and gripping World War 2 historical novelEster 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. After just a few short days and with the war intensifying, life takes a very sudden and much more horrendous turn for the population, than they could have ever thought possible. The city is divided into sectors; one ghetto for the Jews, one area for all the non-Jews, with the remaining much larger properties being given over to the occupying Nazis and their families. Ana’s home has been designated as falling within the Jewish ghetto, so she, her husband and three young adult sons are forced to move across town, whilst Ester, Filip and both their extended families find themselves sharing and squashed into a tiny house, inside the newly cordoned off ghetto, where they are kept living on the point of starvation, although with both of them plying trades of value to the occupiers, they are permitted to continue working, when many others can’t. As there are other general nurses, but no dedicated midwife in the compound, Ester decides to enlist Ana’s help to train herself, so that she can help those women in need. Ana and her family are active resistance members and risk their lives to smuggle food and nursing manuals into the ghetto, whilst taking advantage of every possible opportunity to help some of the Jews escape, including Ester’s teenage sister. Stachurska has already written a best-selling book with the help of Leszkowicz entitled ‘The Midwife of Auschwitz’ from which a documentary was also made. Kalbar/TFN

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Ester was a young nurse, who is Jewish, living and working in Lodz in Poland when she and her new husband Filip Pasternak along with their families were rounded up and rehoused in the new ghetto as the Germans overtook their town. Their house had been given over to the Germans to house troops while they now lived in barely two rooms all together. Siempre que estos teman incluyen a los niños es todavía más dura la historia, pero me ha gustado mucho saber como trataban a las madres y a los recién nacidos. Hay un gran trabajo de investigación con hechos reales, como consiguieron localizar niños robados y sobre todo me ha gustado encontrar personajes de los que ya he leído con anterioridad como Mala y Edek. Currently in post-production the new documentary was produced in Łódź with filming also taking place in the nearby town of Skierniewice. Krzysztof MordakPor otro lado tenemos a Ester, enfermera y judía, conoceremos su historia de amor en tiempo donde los nazis aún estaban por llegar y viviremos como ella y su familia es apartada y llevada a los guetos judíos. Ana Kaminski declares herself a midwife and Ester Pasternak, her assistant when they arrive in Auschwitz. They are sent to the maternity ‘ward’ – a place like no other to welcome the gift of life. Her story of what happened here is a testament to the resistance of a small group of women who were determined to help their fellow prisoners. Offering medical care and friendship, they displayed courage and defiance in the face of atrocity. a b c d Maria Żmijewska, Stanisława Leszczyńska, 1896–1974. Wirtualne Muzeum Pielegniarstwa Polskiego. Source: IMPULS, Nr 6/1994. Sign up to be the first to hear about new releases from Anna Stuart here: https://www.bookouture.com/anna-stuart/