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1918-1944
Born: Brzesko, Poland
Died: Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Poland

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She escaped Auschwitz on June 24, 1944 with her lover, Edward Galinski. He dressed up as an SS guard and brought her through the perimeter gate. Outside the gate, they pretended to install a sink.

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She carried the sink in a way that hid her hair, so the real SS guards wouldn't know that she was a woman.

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Galinski showed the guards a pass he had forged for her and they were let out. They ran away from the camp.

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Unfortunately, they were captured 13 days later at the Poland-Slovakia border by border patrol. Galinski and Zimetbaum were brought back to Auschwitz, where they were tortured for two months. On September 15, they were transferred to Birkenau, where they were scheduled to be executed on the same day. Galinski was hung, but not before he yelled "Long live Poland!" to the crowd of prisoners.

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Malka's execution was more eventful. She pulled out a hidden razor blade as her sentence was being read, and slit her wrists. An SS guard tried to take the blade, but she slapped him in the face. A few guards then beat her. She was taken to the crematorium.

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Accounts differ regarding how she died. Some say that she died on the way to the crematorium, others say she was shot at the entrance, and others say that she burned to death.

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There are different opinions as to what she said as she was killed. Here are a few: "I fall a heroine and you will die as a dog" (to an SS officer). "Courage, friends! They shall pay. Liberation is in sight" (to fellow prisoners). "Do not cry; the day of reckoning is near. Remember everything they did to us" (to fellow prisoners).

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After the Holocaust, a movie (The Last Stage) and a musical (Mala, the Music of the Wind) were based on her story.