Augusta Marie Chiwy 6월4일생



 

“Here was a person who deserved credit and had gotten none for what she’d done in 1944–1945. I would discover the circuitous route that led this woman from her birth in 1921, in what was then the Belgian Congo, to Bastogne and the Battle of the Bulge twenty-three years later. I discovered sometime later that the nurse’s name wasn’t “Anna.” It was Augusta Chiwy.
 

Who was this African nurse?

In December 1944 she was visiting her father and adoptive mother in Bastogne. She had come home for Christmas from Louvain, where she worked as a nurse, unaware that Bastogne would soon become a city under siege. In a last-ditch effort to win the war he knew he was losing, Adolf Hitler had ordered his armies to launch a massive assault on the Allies’ front line in Belgium. Bastogne was right in the crosshairs. It was defended by poorly equipped and badly outnumbered American troops who would soon be tested in one of the bloodiest confrontations in US military history. Augusta Chiwy would selflessly volunteer to help US medic Dr. Jack Prior for nearly a month of sleepless nights, numbing cold, and relentless bombing in a place of abject terror, where anyone could be killed at any time.
 

This story is not only one of remarkable courage and compassion in the face of appalling inhumanity.”

Martin King - Searching for Augusta
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