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Not every baby was immediately murdered: Beginning in 1943, some were taken to give to Nazi couples as โAryanโ babies under Nazi Germanyโs Lebensborn program, which kidnapped up to 100,000 babies in Poland alone.
When Leszczyลska heard what was expected of her in the macabre maternity ward, she refused. When she was taken to the doctor who oversaw the entire camp, she again refused. โWhy they did not kill her then, no one knows,โ said Leszczyลskaโs son Bronislaw in 1988.
In early 1945, the Nazis forced most inmates of Auschwitz to leave the camp on a โdeath marchโ to other camps. Leszczyลska refused to depart, and stayed in the camp until its liberation.
Leszczyลska, assisted by her daughter and other prisoners, later said she delivered 3,000 babies during her two years at Auschwitz. She continued to refuse to kill babies despite repeated orders to do so, even standing up to Dr. Josef Mengele, the campโs infamous โAngel of Death,โ who was known for his brutal experiments on twins and other inmates.