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Edek was very close with Mala. He said that he still wanted to involve Mala in their escape plan even though she was suffering from Malaria. Edek brought his friend Wieslar a portrait of Mala in chalk to dispel his fears, drawn by fellow prisoner Zofjia Stepien. Edek managed to obtain his SS uniform from his former Kommando Lubusch.

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Mala was the youngest of five children born to Pinkas Zimetbaum and his wife Chaya, in Brzesko, Poland on the 26th of January 1918. Two years after the German occupation of Poland, she was arrested on the 22nd of July 1942, at Antwerp Central Station, on her way back from Brussels, where she had been looking for a hiding place for her and her family. The Germans took Mala first to Fort Breendonk, then she was transferred to mechelen. Then, she was sent on a train to Auschwitz and was chosen to be fit for labor. She was given the number 19880.

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Mala is still remembered to this day and many Auschwitz survivors regularly gather to pay their respects to this brave woman. A plaque has been placed on their house where her family lived in Antwerp, scholarships and even a B’nai B’rith lodge have been named in her honor.

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Edek made another attempt at communication and stated that “Mala or himself would go to the executioner alive.” - Edek’s letter after being captured

“Don’t worry. I am in good health, working as an interpreter. All the others are together with Etush.” - Mala’s letter August 25, 1943

*It should be noted this was a clever warning as Etush, Mala’s sister-in-law had died before the war.

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Edek Galinski dressed up as a SS guard and Mala Zimetbaum dressed up as a male prisoner holding a lavatory pan. They made it look like a SS guard was escorting a prisoner somewhere, and they walked out the camp on June 24, 1944. They were captured on the 6th of July 1944 and were said to be executed. They both said that they were going to not let the executioner kill them so they killed themselves before the executioner could.