So far I have Liz Saloman and Barbara Puc as babies reportedly delivered by the midwife Stanislawa Leszczynska and surviving to adulthood. It would be interesting to know how many others there were. Some websites (e.g.
here) reported that she attended a reunion with Auschwitz babies on January 27, 1970. Not much detail is provided. Perhaps someone who knows Polish could pursue this matter and, if nothing else, find more names.
Leszczynska herself wrote a very short autobiography which can be read
here. I'm not sure what to say about this. On the one hand I want to view her respectfully as someone who actually tried to save lives under dire circumstances, and I want to treat her story with all due charity. Parts of it sound quite credible and are actually very believable compared to the way it has been misquoted and misinterpreted since. On the other hand she was definitely telling some tales. For example, could any part of this paragraph be true?
Until May 1943 all the children born in Auschwitz were murdered in a most cruel way—drowned in a barrel of water. This was done by two German women, Schwester (“sister”) Klara and Schwester Pfani. Sister Klara was a midwife by profession, and she was sent to Auschwitz for infanticide. When I was appointed midwife an injunction was put on her prohibiting her from assisting at deliveries because she was a Berufsverbreherin (viz. she had committed an offence in her professional capacity). She was appointed to perform a job for which she was far better suited. She was also appointed to a management job as Blockälteste (senior block officer). She was given an assistant, Sister Pfani, a ginger freckled streetwalker. Each birth was followed by a loud noise of something gurgling coming from the room of these two, and then the sound of splashing water, sometimes for a fairly long time. Not long afterwards the mother could see her baby’s body thrown out in front of the block and being pulled to pieces by rats.
Confusingly, Leszczynska claimed babies were tattooed in two different ways: an unofficial way that she came up with and an official way done
before killing them.
To secure a chance of identifying the abducted children at some time in the future and returning them to their mothers, I devised a way of tattooing the babies due for deportation. I did it in a way the SS‑men did not notice. Many a mother was consoled by the thought that one day she would find her lost child.
Jewish children continued to be drowned. This was done with unrelenting cruelty. There was no chance of concealing a Jewish baby or hiding it among non‑Jewish children. “Sisters” Klara and Pfani took turns to keep an eye on Jewish women in labour, which made it impossible to keep the birth of a Jewish baby secret. As soon as it was born it was tattooed with the mother’s prison number, drowned in the barrel, and thrown out of the block.
Again, why would the Nazis tattoo babies before killing them? This nonsense makes the claim of infanticide considerably less believable.
Leszczynska is her own source for the claim that she delivered 3,000 babies. Her story ends with her estimates of the numbers. She claimed that
thirty babies survived over her time there, plus "a few hundred" were taken and Germanized. This would mean ~330 babies survived, well more than zero.
The same website also has/had a 1975 article about Leszczynska, readable
here. It quotes a few other survivors on her work, but only briefly. One loosely corroborates the most incredible claim: "I remember prison numbers being tattooed on their delicate little bodies, only to send them to be gassed next day or to condemn to death by starvation." This is once again nonsense. Besides which it contradicts the Holocaust doctrine of today. When someone asks about tattoos today,
the narrative defenders insist: "Prisoners sent directly to the gas chambers were not tattooed." Well, were they or weren't they? Do the historians and museums not find this witness to be credible?