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ROZA ROBOTA

THIS MEMBER OF THE ZIONIST YOUTH MOVEMENT HASHOMER
HATSA IR WAS AMONG THE FIRST PRISONERS PLACED IN THE
WOMEN’S CAMP AT BIRKENAU (AUSCHWITZ 11) 

SHE ALONG WITH A GROUP OF YOUNG JEWISH WOMEN HELPED
SMUGGLE SMALL QUANTITIES OF EXPLOSIVES FROM THE WEICHSEL-
UNION MUNITIONS FACTORY (A KRUPP SLAVE-LABOR FACTORY IN
AUSCHWITZ) TO THE UNDERGROUND IN AUSCHWITZ I AND TO THE
JEWISH SONDERKOMMANDO WHO WORKED IN THE BIRKENAU
CREMATORIA. 

FOLLOWING AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SONDERKOMMANDO REVOLT
IN OCTOBER 1944 IN WHICH ONE OF THE CREMATORIA WAS
DESTROYED AND ANOTHER DAMAGED WITH THESE EXPLOSIVES
ROBOTA AND THREE OTHER FEMALE WORKERS IN THE UNION
FACTORY WERE ARRESTED.  DESPITE SEVERE TORTURE AT THE HANDS
OF NAZI SOLDIERS. ROBOTA NEVER YIELDED THE NAMES AND COMMUNICATION CHANNELS OF THE CORE UNDERGROUND GROUP
ON JANUARY 6, 1945. SHE AND HER THREE COMRADES ALA
GERTNER, REGINA SAFIRSZTAJN AND ESTHER WAJCRLUM WERE
HANGED BEFORE THE ASSEMBLED FEMALE PRISONERS OF AUSCHWITZ I
ROBOTA’S LAST MESSAGE TO HER ASSOCIATES CONCLUDED WITH
THE WORDS CHAZAK V’EMATZ! - - BE STRONG AND BRAVE!