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KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) — Stanislawa Leszczynska, a Polish midwife imprisoned at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Nazi Germany-occupied Poland, delivered 3,000 babies of different nationalities and treated them and their mothers with heroic humanity.
As the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day Jan. 27, OSV News recalls Leszczynska, a “servant of God” who is a sainthood candidate, and her heroic humanity amid the evil of the Nazis.
Stanislawa was born in 1896 to Jan and Henryka Zambrzycki in Lódz (pronounced ‘Woodge’) in the Russian partition of Poland. The family was working class in a city known as the “Polish Manchester,” because of the textile industry that flourished there, like its English namesake.
The population of Lódz exploded from 30,000 in 1830 to half a million on the eve of World War I. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, Lódz became home to numerous textile factories that attracted migrants: primarily Poles, Jews, and Germans.
In 1916 Stanislawa married Bronislaw Leszczynska, who was a printer. Their first son, named Bronislaw after his father, was born prematurely in 1917. His miraculous survival made the young mother wonder whether she might be able to serve women and babies in similar circumstances.
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As the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day Jan. 27, OSV News recalls Leszczynska, a “servant of God” who is a sainthood candidate, and her heroic humanity amid the evil of the Nazis.
Stanislawa was born in 1896 to Jan and Henryka Zambrzycki in Lódz (pronounced ‘Woodge’) in the Russian partition of Poland. The family was working class in a city known as the “Polish Manchester,” because of the textile industry that flourished there, like its English namesake.
The population of Lódz exploded from 30,000 in 1830 to half a million on the eve of World War I. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, Lódz became home to numerous textile factories that attracted migrants: primarily Poles, Jews, and Germans.
In 1916 Stanislawa married Bronislaw Leszczynska, who was a printer. Their first son, named Bronislaw after his father, was born prematurely in 1917. His miraculous survival made the young mother wonder whether she might be able to serve women and babies in similar circumstances.
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Meet the Polish Catholic midwife who delivered 3,000 babies at Auschwitz
As the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day Jan. 27, OSV News recalls Stanislawa Leszczynska, a "servant of God" who is a sainthood candidate, and her heroic humanity amid the evil of the Nazis.
www.oursundayvisitor.com
