Group portrait of six girls in the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in Ciechanow.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 18652

Date: Circa 1930
Locale: Ciechanow, [Warsaw] Poland
Variant Locale: Tshekhanov
Ziechenau
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Zionist Activity/Hachsharot
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eliyahu Mallenbaum

Biography: Roza Robota (1921-1945), a member of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist underground in Ciechanow, was deported to Auschwitz in 1942. She was among the first prisoners to be put into the Birkenau women's camp. In 1943, after a Jewish underground was set up in Auschwitz, Robota became a liason to the women's camp in Birkenau. In 1944 she delivered smuggled explosives from the Union munitions plant to members of the Birkenau Sonderkommando who blew up crematorium IV on October 7. Arrested and tortured after the revolt, she refused to reveal the names of those involved. She was hanged on January 5, 1945, together with the three girls who smuggled the explosives: Ala Gertner, Ester (Estusia) Wajcblum and Regina Szafirsztajn.
Keyword: CHILDREN/YOUTH
GROUP PORTRAITS
JEWS (POLISH)
ROBOTA, ROZA
STUDIO PORTRAITS
YOUTH (13-20 YEARS)
ZIONIST GROUPS (HASHOMER HATZAIR)
ZIONIST GROUPS/ZIONISM
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Eliyahu Mallenbaum
: Record last modified: 2003-12-10 00:00:00
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