Group portrait of six girls in the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in Ciechanow.
Overview
- Caption
- Group portrait of six girls in the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in Ciechanow.
Pictured seated from left to right are: unknown, Pschulka, Kostrzeva. Standing from left to right are: Roza Robota, Ruth Kirshenzweig and Lola Kirsh. - Date
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Circa 1930
- Locale
- Ciechanow, [Warsaw] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Tshekhanov
Ziechenau - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eliyahu Mallenbaum
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Eliyahu Mallenbaum
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- 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.
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- 2003-12-10 00:00:00
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