https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y en-us 2023-03-22 16:39:08 UTC 2023-03-23 17:43:54 UTC hello@padlet.com bbastie40 https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2527484694 Who? Malka Zimetbaum
When? June 24, 1944
Where? Auschwitz Concentration Camp]]> 2023-03-22 16:45:32 UTC https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2527484694 bbastie40 https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2527491597
Mala’s fears were justified- her parents and her three nephews, aged 3,5 and 6 had been murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz

]]> 2023-03-22 16:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2527491597 bbastie40 https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2527494404 Freedom however, was not to last. Both Edek and Mala were captured on 6 July 1944 by the Bielitz Gestapo, and were returned to Auschwitz the next day


]]> 2023-03-22 16:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2527494404 bbastie40 https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2527495987 Mala was one of the 101 females considered fit for labour, whilst 717 were gassed immediately]]> 2023-03-22 16:52:47 UTC https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2527495987 bbastie40 https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2527505275 Mala is still remembered even to this day, and many Auschwitz survivors regularly gather to pay their respect to this brave woman, and a plaque has been placed on the house where her family lived in in Antwerp]]> 2023-03-22 16:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2527505275 bbastie40 https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2529239661 “Don’t worry. I am in good health, working as an interpreter. All the others are together with Etush.”
 “My dear sister, why don’t you write me? You know that every couple of lines from you will renew my courage to face life. Where are our dear parents, why don’t they correspond? What about the dear children? Thinking of it will drive me mad”

]]> 2023-03-23 17:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2529239661 bbastie40 https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2529242618 Edek’s body tightened, twitched and then remained hanging limply, his head dropped to one side. He was no longer alive.”]]> 2023-03-23 17:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2529242618 bbastie40 https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2529250108 2023-03-23 17:41:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2529250108 bbastie40 https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2529252128 2023-03-23 17:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bbastie40/b03nvz0o305qdz3y/wish/2529252128