Małka Zdrojewicz

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Rachela Wyszogrodzka, Bluma Wyszogrodzka and Małka Zdrojewicz (from left) after their arrest, photo in the Stroop report , caption: Women of the Haluzzen movement captured with weapons
Map of the Warsaw Ghetto, green: Brush factory area

Małka Zdrojewicz ( Hebrew מלכה זדרויביץ, married Hornstein הורנשטיין ) was a Jewish resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor. During the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto in April / May 1943 it belonged to the Jewish Fighting Organization .

Together with the sisters Bluma and Rachela Wyszogrodzki, she worked in an underground workshop in the area of ​​the brush factory, where grenades and explosive devices were made. She later reported that she and other young women smuggled weapons into the ghetto through the sewer system. During the bread distribution organized by the insurgents, Hersz Lent spoke to them. He gave her a revolver and showed her how to use it. During the fighting, they threw Molotov cocktails at the German occupiers. Eventually they sought refuge in the basement of a building where there was a weapon stash and were taken prisoner by SS men .

Zdrojewicz and the Wyszogrodzki sisters were beaten up and had to line up for the firing squad. Suddenly, according to her report, she was hit hard on the head and heard gunshots at the same time. Bluma Wyszogrodzka was immediately dead. Rachela Wyszogrodzka and she and other prisoners were driven to the Umschlagplatz and later deported to Majdanek . Rachela Wyszogrodzka was murdered in the Auschwitz camp .

Małka Zdrojewicz survived the extermination camp and emigrated to Palestine in 1946 , which was then a British mandate. 75% of her injuries suffered in prison and in concentration camps . She married and took the name Hor (e) nstein. The couple had four children.

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literature

  • Malka Zdrojewicz: I was one of the three fighting girls captured and photographed by General Stroop's men . In: Yad vaShem Bulletin No. 22, May 1968, pp. 37-39.
  • Kurt Schilde : Youth opposition 1933–1945: selected contributions . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2017.
  • Bea Stadtler: The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance . Behrman House, 3rd edition Springfield 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the Warsaw version of the Stroop Report, photo no.23.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Bea Stadtler: The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance , Springfield 1994, p. 99.
  3. ↑ a b c d Kurt Schilde: Jugendopposition , Berlin 2017, p. 98.
  4. ↑ Yad Vashem, Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims , Record No. 7703026. ( https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=de&itemId=7703026&ind=10 )
personal data
SURNAME Zdrojewicz, Małka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hornstein, Małka; זדרויביץ, מלכה (Hebrew); הורנשטיין (heb)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH in the 19th century or 20th century