Mala Zimetbaum

Mala Zimetbaum was the first woman to escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was born January 26th, 1918. It is speculated that Mala was rounded up on July 22nd, 1942 during an SS effort to hunt down Jews. She was then sent on a train to Auschwitz where one of the 230 individuals that were selected out of a group of 1,048. She was given the number 19880. Mala was fluent in multiple languages and was soon assigned the position as an SS translator and runner. Then, Mala met and fell in love with Edward (Edek) Galinski.  Saturday June 24th, 1944, the lovers fled Birkenau. Edek was dressed in a SS uniform which was given to him from a compassionate SS guard and Mala dressed as a woman prisoner being led to work. 

On July 6th, the couple was captured and returned to Auschwitz where they were put in separate cells on the infamous Block 11. After interrogation and torture, neither Mala or Edek gave one another up and both were sentenced to public executions in Birkenau on September 15th, 1944. 

"Mala Zimetbaum, Symbol of Solidarity, died heroically in the Auschwitz concentration camp, September 15th, 1944."

"I Shall die a heroine, but you shall die like a dog!" - Mala's final words to a blockfuhrer. 

Here are a few links for further research: 

1. http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/zimetbaum-mala

2. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/MalaZimetbaum.html