Barbara Rylko-Bauer tells the story of her mother Jadwig Helena Lenartowicz, a Polish doctor, arrested in January 1944 by the Gestapo. As a political prisoner, she worked until the end of the war as a doctor in several concentration camps, including Ravensbrück, Gross-Rosen and Nezalz. She had a minimum of medical needs and medicines to treat patients, but she managed to prevent the outbreak of the abdominal typhoid epidemic. The number of women she saved can hardly be estimated.
At the end of the war, nearly five hundred kilometers of death survived to the Flossenbürg concentration camp. She spent forty days on her way with a minimum of food, water and heat. On the brink of forces she managed to survive and wait for the end of the war. After liberation, she continued her profession in various refugee camps. Treated survivors from concentration camps suffering from malnutrition and other diseases.
This fascinating narrative is the chronicle of life of a strong personality against the revolutionary events of the world's world history. She is a tribute to brave women, doctors who have coped with difficult circumstances in war times, a tribute to a woman who, as a Christian, helped many Jewish and non -Jewish victims.
This book has won several major awards, including 2015 IPPpy Gold Medal in Biography, 2014 Indiefab Book of the Year Award, 2015 Michigan Notable Book Finalist and 2015 Next Generation India Book Award.