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In 1944, Roza Robota made a revolt in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. She told a woman that has been working under the munitions to scrape the explosive powder they had into her nails. They gave the gunpowder to a prisoner named Borodin to make bombs to escape. But the people got scared and set off the bombs, which caused a lot of commotion. About 600 prisoners escaped, but all of them were either recaptured or killed.

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The act of Resistance that Roza Robota attempted doing was trying to free prisoners from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Even though Roza failed to save the prisoners, he was still killed because of all the commotion she caused. Roza Robota was publicly hanged with 3 other women after the incident in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

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“Be strong and be Courageous.”

-Roza Robota 1945

https://www.motl.org/be-strong-and-courageous-last-words-of-roza-robota-member-of-the-jewish-resistance-in-auschwitz-birkenau/

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19-year-old Ester Wajcblum and her 14-year-old sister Hana arrived at Auschwitz in spring of 1943. They were assigned to work in the munitions factory where they met Regina Safirsztain and Ala Gertner, women engaged in resistance activities. Together with Roza Robota, who worked in the clothes depot, they began to smuggle gunpowder to the men in the adjoining camp, sometimes using bodies of friends that were en route to the Sonderkommando for disposal.

The Sonderkommando were Jewish prisoners who worked the death camps in return for special treatment and privileges. Every few months, the current sonderkommando was liquidated and the first task of their successors was to dispose of the bodies of the previous group. Since a sonderkommando usually comprised men from incoming transports, their second task often consisted of disposing of the bodies of their own families. The sonderkommando did not participate in the actual killing -- that was carried out by the Nazis. The sonderkommando duties included guiding the new arrivals into the gas chambers, removing the bodies afterwards, shaving hair, removing teeth, sorting through possessions (much of which they were given as reward), cremating the bodies, and disposing of the ashes. Their knowledge of the internal workings of the camp marked them for certain death. Someone selected for the sonderkommando had a choice: die then or die in four months time.

As the time of their execution grew nearer, the members of the 12th Sonderkommando crystallized their plans of revolt and escape. Besides the gunpowder being smuggled by the women, which the men fashioned into crude grenades using sardine tins, there were some small arms that had been slipped through the fence by local partisans. In addition, knives and small axes had been made and hidden throughout the crematoria. Much of the gunpowder was used in creating demolition charges. There was talk of a general uprising that would coincide with the arrival of the approaching Soviet armies, but some sonderkommando were certain that they would not live until that day.

On October 7th, 1944, at about 3 in the afternoon, the Poles in Crematorium 1 begin the revolt. Hungarians in Crematoria 3 and 4 join in while the sonderkommando of Crematorium 2 break through the wires of the camp. An especially sadistic Nazi guard in Crematorium 1 is disarmed and stuffed into an oven to be burned alive. Small arms fire rattles from the second floor of the crematoria until the Germans bring in heavy machine guns and riddle the wooden roof.

The guards counterattack and penetrate the buildings, indiscriminately shooting at all prisoners they encounter. The sonderkommando in Crematorium 4 drag their demolition charges into the oven rooms and detonate them in a defiant suicide. The revolt is quickly suppressed and the escaped men recaptured with the help of local citizens. Approximately 200 sonderkommando are forced to lie face down outside the crematoria where they are executed with single shots to the back of the head. Some of the men are spared for interrogation, but the bodies of the 12th Sonderkommando are soon disposed of by the 13th Sonderkommando.

The men give up names, including those of some women who were engaged in smuggling gunpowder. Despite months of beatings and rape and electric shocks to their genitals, the only names given up by the women are those of already dead sonderkommando.

On January 5, 1945, the four women are hanged in front of the assembled women's camp. Roza Robota shouts "Be strong and be brave" as the trapdoor drops.

Crematorium 4 was damaged beyond repair and never used again. On November 7th, 1944, the Nazis destroyed the gas chambers to hide their crimes. Twelve days after the hanging of the four women, the camp personnel forced 56,000 prisoners on a Death March into what remained of the Third Reich; 7,500 prisoners left behind were liberated by advancing Soviet armies on January 27th.

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19-year-old Ester Wajcblum and her 14-year-old sister Hana arrived at Auschwitz in spring of 1943. They were assigned to work in the munitions factory where they met Regina Safirsztain and Ala Gertner, women engaged in resistance activities.

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Websites to learn more about Roza Robota:

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Websites to learn more about Roza Robota:

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https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/robota-roza

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Roza Robota's last words and the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

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Roza Robota being publicly hanged.

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Roza Robota throughout the years.

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Roza Robota before death.

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Roza Robota whenever she was a kid.

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Roza Robota in daily life.

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When Was Roza Robota Born And When Did She Die?

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When Was Roza Robota Born And When Did She Die?

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Roza Robota was born in 1921 in Ciechanow, Poland. She died on January 6, 1945, in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. She was publicly hanged for causing a disruption in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

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Roza worked in the clothing kommando which is a labor unit. What Roza did in that unit was sorting the personal belongings of the dead. Since she did this job a lot, she gained a high status at that post.

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Why did Roza Robota cause a commotion in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp? 

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Why did Roza Robota cause a commotion in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp? 

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Roza was asked by the Polish Underground to smuggle explosives to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. She got another lady to help her cause the commotion. Although she died while resisting, it still shows that the Jews were going to resist.

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What was the aftermath of the commotion made in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp?

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What was the aftermath of the commotion made in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp?

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An investigation was carried out by the Gestapo. Three prisoners named Ala Gertner, Regina Safirsztain, and Ester Waisblum were caught and tortured, but they didn't tell the Nazis who else participated in smuggling in the explosives. A half-Jew named Eugen Koch found out that the three woman and Roza Robota were the people that started all the commotion, resulting in their death later on.

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Roza Robota was born in a middle-class family. She had one brother, one sister, one mother, and one father. None of Roza's relatives' names are known.

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How Roza Robota Is Still Remembered Today:

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How Roza Robota Is Still Remembered Today:

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In Sydney, Australia, there is The Roza Robota Gates that were named in her honor. Even though Roza Robota's actions were a tiny dent in the holocaust, people still remember her for her heroic actions. People respect her because she was still able to fight back during one of the darkest periods of time, just like many other Jews.