The Midwife

2020

Overview

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?

Genres

Documentary History War

Production Countries

Poland

Spoken Languages

Polish pl

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Cast

Danuta Stenka

narrator

Hanna Polk

narrator 2

Crew

Maria Stachurska

Director

Maria Stachurska

Writer

Posters

External Links

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