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Jul 01, 1914 Maubeuge, Hauts de France, France Died on 01 Jan 1962 (aged 47)
member of German Resistance against Nazism
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About Orli Wald
- Orli Wald (July 1, 1914 – January 1, 1962) was a member of the German Resistance in Nazi Germany.
- She was arrested in 1936 and charged with high treason, whereupon she served four and a half years in a women's prison, followed by "protective custody" in Nazi concentration camps until 1945, when she escaped.
- She was a prisoner functionary in the infirmary at Auschwitz-Birkenau and because of her helpfulness to Jewish and other prisoners, was called the "Angel of Auschwitz".
- After the war, Wald was often ill with physical problems stemming from illness during her confinement.
- She was also plagued by depression, unable to cope with her memories of the concentration camps and she made numerous suicide attempts.
- She wrote stories about her experiences in an attempt to overcome the past, but died at the age of 48 in a psychiatric hospital.
