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The Midwife

20200.0 / 100
Documentary, History, War

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?

Cast

Danuta Stenka

Danuta Stenka

narrator

Hanna Polk

Hanna Polk

narrator 2

Crew

Pawel Sobczyk

Pawel Sobczyk

Photo Retouching

Błażej Moder

Błażej Moder

Co-Producer

Maria Stachurska

Maria Stachurska

Director

Maria Stachurska

Maria Stachurska

Writer

Jędrzej Sabliński

Jędrzej Sabliński

Co-Producer

Michał Lorenc

Michał Lorenc

Original Music Composer