'Don't forget you saved my life': Letter to the stranger who gave me their bone marrow
- Posted on January 10, 2026
- By Le Monde
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'Don't forget you saved my life': Letter to the stranger who gave me their bone marrow

Hélène Schlesinger was 37 and had a husband, two children, and plenty of plans for the future when she learned, in 2022, that she had leukemia. For months, the young woman fought as she waited for a bone marrow transplant. She lives thanks to an anonymous donor. All she knows is that he is German and that a part of him now lives inside her.