Hope

Picture of Dr. Joseph Bruner, while performing surgery on 21 week-old fetus for spinal bifida. Both mother and fetus were sedated, yet the fetus grasped the surgeon's finger.
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I came upon the story of Edith Ziver, a Jewish woman who spent 3 years in a concentration camp, from a slide show presentation I received in spanish. She was 13 yrs. old when she was rescued, this in her own words from excerpt I found online:

"On January 28, 1945, Russian soldiers liberated the Hassak concentration camp, where I had been imprisoned for almost three years, working in a munitions factory. I felt confused, I was prostrated with illness. Two days later I arrived at a small railway station between Czestochowa and Krakow." …..

"I was sure I would arrive at the end of my journey. I was lying on the ground, in the corner of a large hall where dozens of refugees were gathering, the majority of whom still wore uniforms with the numbers of the concentration camps. Then Wojtyla saw me. He came with a big cup of tea, the first hot beverage I had had in weeks. Then he brought me a cheese sandwich made with Polish rye bread, wonderful. But I didn't want to eat. I was too tired. He made me eat. Then he told me I would have to walk to catch the train. I tried, but I fell down on the ground. He then took me in his arms and carried me for a long time. All the while the snow fell. I remember his brown jacket, the tranquil voice who told me about his parents' death, and his brother's, the loneliness he felt, and the need not to be overcome by sorrow and to fight for life. His name was indelibly imprinted in my memory."

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The slide show, when translated quotes him saying:
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“It is not necessary to be overcome by grief; one must combat sorrow to live with hope.”
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His name was Karol Wojtyla.

source: http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/2000/may2000p13_58.html