At a refugee camp near the Serbian-Croatian border, Biljana NikoliÄ? cradled a newborn baby, still covered with blood from birth. The infant wasn’t crying. The mother, who had delivered on one of the crowded buses transporting Europe’s newcomers across the border, urgently needed a doctor herself, by the look of it. So Ms. NikoliÄ? rocked the child, calling for a Red Cross doctor.
“I was shaking,” says Ms. NikoliÄ?, a Roma Christian. “The baby’s family was all around me. I felt like it was the first time I’ve held a newborn, though I’ve had four myself.”
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