Lékařkou v koncentračních táborech – Rylko-Bauer Barbara (2022)

Barbara Rylko-Bauer tells the story of her mother Jadwiga Helena Lenartowicz, a Polish doctor who was arrested by the Gestapo in January 1944. As a political prisoner, she worked as a doctor in several concentration camps until the end of the war, including Ravensbrück, Gross-Rosen, and Neusalz. With minimal medical supplies and medications to care for the sick, she managed to prevent an outbreak of typhus, among other achievements. The number of women she saved is hard to estimate. At the end of the war, she survived a nearly five-hundred-kilometer death march to the Flossenbürg concentration camp. She spent forty days on the road with minimal food, water, and warmth. On the brink of exhaustion, she managed to survive and await the end of the war. After liberation, she continued her profession in various refugee camps, treating survivors from concentration camps suffering from malnutrition and other diseases. This fascinating narrative is a chronicle of the life of a strong personality against the backdrop of groundbreaking events in 20th-century world history. It is a tribute to the brave women, doctors who coped with difficult circumstances during wartime, and a tribute to a woman who, as a Christian, helped many Jewish and non-Jewish victims. This book has received several significant awards, including in 2015…