Cruelty od war

The Polish nurse informs that the purpose of the experiment is to check how long a child can survive without food.

When a small Tadeusz is born, the mother's breasts are heavily bandaged, and any attempt to release them is impossible.

A small child weeps for days and nights due to lack of food, until it finally becomes weaker. Cornelia can’t look at her child's slow and cruel death and asks for help a Polish nurse. The woman brings her an injection of morphine that will lead to the death of the child. Cornelia long wonders whether to kill her own child, in the end she decides to shorten the suffering of her son, whose death was inevitable. After the death of her son, she returns to the camp, and there is no sympathy from the prisoners.

In the later chapters of the book, the mechanism that arose in the head of Cornelia as a result of this tragedy is described with details. This tragedy that leaves its mark on her psyche for the rest of her life, and also affects the life of her child born after the war and granddaughter.

There is a note in the book that says it is an authentic war story, and the author decided to use it in her book. A dry historical fact doesn’t affect us with such strength, but if it is told as the story of one of the heroes, the book becomes more authentic for us and at the same time the identification of such a story with a specific hero makes us feel the seriousness of such a historical fact.