Wajcblum, Ester Estusia bat Yaakov (Jakub)

Birth Name Wajcblum, Ester Estusia bat Yaakov (Jakub)
Call Name Ester
Gender female
Age at Death 18 years, 4 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth 1927 Warszawa Warsaw, województwo Mazowieckie, Polska  

 
Transport May, 1943 Majdanek Kriegsgefangenenlager, Lublin, województwo lubelskie, Polska Jakub and Rebeka Wajcblum, and daughters, Ester and Hanka were transported from the Warsaw ghetto

 
Camp September, 1943 Auschwitz Konzentrationslager, Oświęcim, powiat Oświęcimski, województwo Małopolskie, Polska Ester and Hanka Wajcblum were tranferred from Majdanek

Event Note

Ester and Hanka Wajcblum were assigned to forced labor at the Weichsel – Union Metallwerke Munitions plant.

Event Note

Ester and Hanka Wajcblum were recruited by Ala Gertner to steal gunpowder from the Weichsel – Union Metallwerke Munitions plant, which was passed to Roza Robota, who transferred the gunpowder to the Sonderkommando underground, which used it, on October 7, 1944, to blow up Crematorium IV in Birkenau.

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Death January 5, 1945 Auschwitz Konzentrationslager, Oświęcim, powiat Oświęcimski, województwo Małopolskie, Polska Ester Estusia Wajcblum, Rose Grunapfel Meth, Regina Szafirztajn, and Ala Gertner, were hanged in Auschwitz-Birkenau

Event Note

Ester Wajcblum was one of the four women arrested as co-conspirators.
After being tortured, she was publicly hanged.

 

Parents

Father Wajcblum, Jakub
Mother Jaglom, Rebeka
Siblings
  1. Wajcblum, Sabina bat Yaakov (Jakub)
  2. Wajcblum Weissman, Hanna Anna 'Hanka' bat Yaakov (Jakub)

Pedigree

  1. Wajcblum, Jakub
    1. Jaglom, Rebeka
      1. Wajcblum, Sabina bat Yaakov (Jakub)
      2. Wajcblum, Ester Estusia bat Yaakov (Jakub)
      3. Wajcblum Weissman, Hanna Anna 'Hanka' bat Yaakov (Jakub)

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