amazing story of a birth in Auschwitz (WARNING! GRAPHIC)

I just had to share this, I worked in a nursing home for jewish people while at uni and I had a lovely lady Sophia, who was sadly suffering from severe dementia. She was a Holocaust survivor and she still had her serial number tattooed on her. I used to do the night shift and she would always wake at night screaming for her mother and father and I would have to settle her :( she would swallow what she would call "tablets" but there were just mentos mints but it was our ritual and it would put her straight to sleep. I watched a documentary on cable today about Auschwitz and it made me recall about one of her stories of her mother helping deliver a baby in the night inside the camp, I would just put it down to her demented ramblings but something on this show made me think twice so I googled it! funny enough I found this story. Could be coincidence, could not, but it is an amazing story and I could not not post it. I have never linked anything before so sorry mods if I have done it wrong or it is in the wrong forum.


Born in Auschwitz

What an amazing story. Thank you for sharing it. I knew something of what routinely happened to pregnant women in the camps but would never have considered a child could have been born and survived.

Wow. I'm in tears and speechless.

Wow :o

Total insanity...I don't know what to say. I could only allow myself a second to imagine it being me in that situation-how utterly horrific for these woman to experience such evil...

I am speechless and so very very sorry this ever happened :(

Truly amazing. I am so grateful for stories like this. Not grateful for the cruelty, destruction and death caused during that awful time. But definitely grateful for these stories.

Thank you so much for sharing.

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Truly amazing. I am so grateful for stories like this. Not grateful for the cruelty, destruction and death caused during that awful time. But definitely grateful for these stories.

Thank you so much for sharing.

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^yeah that ^ xx

It's an amazing story - it's inspirational in a way. That while the human race shows it's ugliest side love can prevail and innocence be protected.

That is an amazing story - thanks for sharing! I think I'm a little bit in shock from it - I'm so glad her daughter shared the story with the world!!


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Thank you for sharing - a humbling reminder of what a wonderful life I have.

Amazing. I'm speechless after reading that.
It just makes me more thankful to live in Australia.

Thank you so much for sharing.

What a privilege, to care for Sophia and other like her, and be in a place to bring human kindness and compassion to her in the night when terrible memories surface. That is amazing that you've now discovered that her story wasn't just dementia talking - things like really happened. I'm amazed by the circle of womanly support around these rare births, even when they were trapped in a hideous hell that tried to destroy every last vestige of humaneness.

I am in such shock. Moved, disgusted, unsettled.

Thanks for sharing hun. It's truly a miracle this baby girl made it out of the camp. I'm Polish, and I visited the camp 3 years ago when I went back to visit my family. It was such a beautiful but incredibly sad place to visit. My heart aches for every single person that lost their life there.

Amazing. No other words to express it.

Thankyou for sharing this! What an amazing woman!

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It's an amazing story - it's inspirational in a way. That while the human race shows it's ugliest side love can prevail and innocence be protected.

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Agreed!

That was so awful, yet so incredible to read. Thank you for sharing :)

Wow. Unbelievable.

Wow thanks for sharing I have always had an interest in the Holocaust after doing so much study on the book Elli and Schindlers list at high school in VCE. Such a horrific time in history that will never be forgotten, such a miracle to read that some good things did happen like this amazing baby.

Thankyou for sharing..... I will be book marking that story. WOW

Dementia is a weird illness/disease in the elderly but what hardly ever goes is the long term memory .... So I believe that what this older person is remembering is very real and possibly that story is hers !

Wow! I hope this is the story Sophia told you... would be marvelous to know that the baby she remembered survived.

I expected this to be a graphic birth story, but holy moley it was distressing! I've read a far bit on the holocaust but I still wasn't aware of some of those details how how women and children were treated. What a powerful story- thank you so much for sharing it.

Wow what can you say after reading that. Thanks for sharing

I feel like hell. So remarkable anyone at all survived those camps, but a pregnant lady who gave birth and then went on to breast feed 2 babies while they trekked, amazing.

Truly amazing. And I'm trying to take it all in, the treatment of babies and children... I don't have the emotional capacity to even process that suffering.


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Wow, I don't know how write what I'm feeling right know. What an amazing show of strength by Vera to bring and keep her baby in this world.

Thanks for sharing this.

I myself am of a hungarian jew background, first one born in Australia :) my father was born in a refugee camp and spent the first 4 years of his life in it. My grandmother a WW2 survivor was sent to jail after being caught trying to leave the country to save her children and her pregnant self, 2nd time lucky though! I am very lucky to be here! What got me most in that article was the fact she had to leave her new born little innocent child in the barracks all day while she worked! I cannot imagine the fear that poor woman would have felt all day wondering if her baby would still be there at night. The poor little thing must have been so hungry :( might just go hug my little boys again.

*tears* Such strength & determination.


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Wow. I'm almost speechless and on the verge of tears. What an amazing woman Vera was. And what a fighting spirit Angela must have had from the very beginning (back to her time in utero).
As I stroke my 8 months preg belly, my heart aches for the preg. women who were tortured and murdered- and for those whose babies were taken and killed after birth :( The extent of the horror is impossible to fathom.

I am really lost for words. The most horrific time ended in something truelly special.