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- Subject: Holocaust Almanac: Mala Zimtebaum - Defiance at Auschwitz
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.120102.14994@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 12:01:02 GMT
- Reply-To: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca
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- Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA
- Keywords: Auschwitz,Zimtebaum
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- "The self-sacrifice of 24-year old Mala Zimetbaum in 1944 should also be
- remembered. She gave courage to the inmates who had been taunted by the SS
- on arrival with `from here one leaves only through the chimney.' Polish
- born, a refugee in Belgium at the outbreak of W.W. I <sic>, Mala had been
- deported in 1942, and because she was proficient in languages, was made a runner
- (lausferin) by the SS command. She took advantage of the opportunity to move
- in relative freedom and carried news and messages from incoming transport to
- the camp underground. She planned an escape with a Polish prisoner, stealing
- the permit that would be needed to get past the guard. They were absent from
- the roll call on the night of the escape, and almost got through the outer
- gate but were recognized at they slipped by the last obstacle. Under
- torture, Mala refused to reveal accomplices. On the way to the gas chamber
- she slashed her wrists with a blade she had stolen from the kitchen. The
- guard, infuriated, ordered that she be burnt alive; she responded by crying
- out: `Murderers, the day of reckoning is near.' Her mouth was taped and she
- was hustled, barely conscious, into the crematorium. After the war, the city
- of Antwerp placed a plaque on the house where she had lived that read: `Mala
- Zimitbaum, Symbol of Solidarity. Murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz.
- 1920-1944.' <11>
-
- <11> Gis Weisblum, cited in Yuri Suhl, "They Fought Back," pp. 182-188
-
- Extracted from---------------------------------------------------
- "THE REDEMPTION OF THE UNWANTED", Abram L. Sachar (New York: St.
- Martin's/Marek, 1983.
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-
- For an extensive bibliography dealing with the Holocaust, and containing over
- 1100 citations, contact kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca - it will be sent to you
- by return email. Additions to this bibliography are actively solicited.
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- ----------The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, Canada---------
- An anonymous Canadian official was asked, in early 1945, how many Jews
- would be allowed into Canada after the war. "None," he said, "is too many."
- (From the preface of NONE IS TOO MANY, Toronto, 1982. ISBN 0-919630-31-6)
-