How did Mala Zimetbaum Die?

Answer 1

There are many accounts of how Mala died: most witnesses agree that she was brought out to the center of the camp to be hanged but prevented her execution by slicing her writs with a razor blade she managed to conceal. She slapped an SS officer with her bloody hand and, on the way to the crematorium (where Mandel decreed she would "die in fire") she died. Other camp survivers claim an SS man took pity on her and shot her when she reached the crematorium. There are many accounts of how Mala died: most witnesses agree that she was brought out to the center of the camp to be hanged but prevented her execution by slicing her writs with a razor blade she managed to conceal. She slapped an SS officer with her bloody hand and, on the way to the crematorium (where Mandel decreed she would "die in fire") she died. Other camp survivers claim an SS man took pity on her and shot her when she reached the crematorium.