Ruth Elias

For Ruth née Elias, see Ruth Rogers.
Ruth Elias
Born
Ruth Huppert

(1922-10-06)6 October 1922
Moravian Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
Died11 October 2008(2008-10-11) (aged 86)

Ruth Elias (née Huppert; 6 October 1922 – 11 October 2008) was a Jewish woman who was born Ruth Huppert in Moravian Ostrava on 6 October 1922.[1][2] After the German annexation of Czechoslovakia, she was sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto and then Auschwitz concentration camp where she survived experimentation by Dr. Mengele. She subsequently went to Israel where she wrote a memoir, Triumph of Hope.[3][4] She died on 11 October 2008 at age 86.[2]

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