We equate the Auschwitz concentration camp with death, and rightly so: at least 1.1 million people perished within its borders. But there was also life: midwife Stanislawa Leszczyńska — whom many in the camps called “Mother — delivered thousands of babies while at the camp. The midwife disobeyed orders and provided many women at the camp with a glimpse of hope, in what is one of the most interesting stories we’ve read this year.