How common is it for mothers to smother their infants to keep them quiet in times of war, conflict or danger?

by KyrDawn
cagetheblackbird

I am not a historian but a verified anthropologist over in /r/askanthropology.
Women in the holocaust often had to make the decision to smother their newborns. If a Nazi found a new born baby in one of the barracks, the whole barrack would be executed for concealing.
Here is a good little article on it
Abortion was much more common. Many doctors would do secret abortions on the women who would get pregnant. One lady, Gisella Perl, preformed hundreds of abortions on jewish women while she, herself a jew, was forced to work in a doctors office at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she had some work in the US and some in Israel. She delivered hundreds of babies in the Israeli delivery wing named after her. Everytime she would say "Come on God! You owe me a live one!"
a great website on her
Edit: Apparently she did work for some time in the US.

Ashmedai314

In the Nahariyya 1979 terror attack in Israel where a group of Palestinian terrorists led by Samir Kuntar infiltrated Israel from the sea (in the process killing police officer Eliyahu Shachar) and raided an apartment building where they took Danny Haran and his four year old daughter Einat hostage, the mother of the Haran family took their other two-year old daughter to a hiding place, where she accidentally suffocated her while trying to keep her quiet. Later during his escape attempt with the hostages, Samir Kuntar killed Danny Haran by shooting him in the back point-blank and his daughter by smashing her skull against rocks on the beach.

kcg5

Why-in this thread-I can read OPs comment, but when all the comments load, OPs goes away?

estherke

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