Sunday, January 12, 2025, 2 PM EST, In person, New York City
Remember the Women Institute is partnering with the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City to present Sabotage, an in-person film and talk-back at the museum.
In January 1945, less than two weeks before the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp evacuation, four forced laborer women, Estusia Wajcblum, Rosa Robota, Alla Gartner, and Regina Safirstein were hanged in public, accused of sabotaging the Nazi war machine. Sabotage tells the dramatic, mostly unknown, story of the women’s underground operation in the munitions factory in Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a story of women’s heroism, resistance, and tragedy told through the eyes of Anna Wajcblum Heilman, Estusia’s sister and youngest member of the women’s resistance. Anna wrote an account describing the dramatic story of the women’s resistance in Auschwitz, the camaraderie, and the friendship between them. The screening of the film will be followed by a discussion with Ariela Heilman, daughter of Auschwitz survivor Anna Wajcblum, and Dr. Irit Felsen, a clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of trauma and traumatic loss.