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The unimaginable story of a midwife who helped girls give beginning at Auschwitz demise camp is to be was a serious new movie.
Written by Maria Stachurska – the mother-in-law of footy ace Robert Lewandowski – director Mariusz Malec, and journalist and writer Dagmara Leszkowicz, the movie relies on the true life story of Stanisława Leszczyńska whose actions helped save newborns from rapid extermination.
Following the outbreak of warfare in 1939, Leszczyńska joined the Nationwide Armed Forces resistance motion in Łódź.
Robert Lewandowski’s mother-in-law, Maria Stachurska, who’s Leszczyńska’s nice niece.
Found by the Gestapo in February 1943, Leszczyńska was despatched to Auschwitz the place, as soon as the Nazi guards found she was a educated midwife, she was assigned to work in what was euphemistically referred to as a maternity ward.
There she discovered that almost all pregnant girls have been both despatched to the gasoline chambers or summarily executed.
The remaining have been despatched to hospital barracks the place a German orderly would declare each new child as stillborn.
The movie will probably be directed by Mariusz Malec, identified for his drama ‘Man of Wheelchairs’ and the romantic comedy ‘As soon as Once more’.
With out chopping the umbilical wire, the orderly would then maintain the child in a bucket of water because it kicked and screamed throughout its temporary life.
Decided to save lots of as many as potential, and at immense danger to her personal life, Leszczyńska refused to participate saying she ‘wouldn’t be Herod to the innocents, she would respect the Hippocratic oath and never kill kids.’
Journalist and writer Dagmara Leszkowicz is working with Stachurska and Malec on the script.
As an alternative, says Stachurska who’s her nice niece, ‘she targeted on doing the work that she was alleged to do.’
Through the time she was incarcerated in Auschwitz II Birkenau Leszczyńska delivered 3,000 infants.
She reported that 30 infants survived till the liberation of the demise camp on 27 January 1945, though different accounts counsel 60 infants have been within the camp at liberation.
Upon arrival at Auschwitz, most pregnant girls have been merely despatched to the gasoline chambers, others have been summarily executed. The rest have been despatched to hospital barracks the place Leszczyńska was working as a mid-wife.
Iga Bunalska from the Auschwitz Examine Group instructed TFN: “Stanisława Leszczyńska is essential within the historical past of Auschwitz for a lot of causes.
“One in every of them was the truth that feminine prisoners might belief her and that she would at all times assist them in any means she might.
“Being pregnant in a focus camp needed to be terrifying and so was the camp itself, and Leszczyńska managed to take care of all these girls who have been afraid.
“They may belief her. It was priceless in Auschwitz.”
Stachurska has already written a best-selling e book with the assistance of Leszkowicz entitled ‘The Midwife of Auschwitz’ from which a documentary was additionally made.
Now, having already written a best-selling e book with the assistance of Leszkowicz from which a documentary was additionally made, Stachurska has once more teamed up with the writer and director Malec to take the story to a wider viewers.
Maria Stachurska is the mom of Robert Lewandowski’s spouse Anna.
The manufacturing is presently in its scriptwriting part after which a working title and actors will probably be chosen.
To learn extra about Leszczyńska’s extraordinary life click on right here:
https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/the-midwife-of-auschwitz-extraordinary-life-of-heroine-who-delivered-3000-babies-in-horror-death-camp-to-be-told-in-new-documentary-6418
