Auschwitz Prisoners

Roza Goldsteien, Ala Bernstein, Regina Saperstein & Estera Wajcblum were four young Polish women being held at Auschwitz. They were arrested interrogated & condemned for the theft of explosives.

All four went to the gallows on January 6th 1945. Wearing their striped prison uniform dresses they were led out & made to stand on folding chairs placed under the beam. Once they had been noosed, their hands tied & their death sentences read out to the assembled inmates the chairs were taken away leaving them suspended by their necks

The four young women then slowly strangled to death in front of their fellow prisoners. The spectacle was meant as a terrible warning to the other inmates of the price of resistance

22 year old Mala Zimetbaum was a Polish Jew who was interned at Auschwitz. She was the first woman to escape from the camp, but she & a young soldier named Ebek who absconded with her were soon caught & returned to the camp.

Both were sentenced to hang in front of the assembled prisoners. Like Roza, Ala, Regina & Estera, Mala, in her prison uniform kicked out her life on the gallows in front of the other inmates

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