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Ruth Elias (Huppert)

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Birthplace: Ostrava, Czechia (Czech Republic)
Death: October 11, 2008 (86)
Beit Yitzhak-Sha'ar Hefer, HaSharon, Center District, Israel
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Friedrich "Fritz" Huppert and Malvina Huppert
Wife of Kurt Elias
Ex-wife of Konrad Tuč
Mother of girl Huppert
Sister of Edith Huppert

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About Ruth Elias

Ruth Elias was a Jewish woman who was born Ruth Huppert in Moravian Ostrava on 6 October 1922. 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. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/idcard.php?ModuleId=10006390

https://www.holocaust.cz/zdroje/clanky-z-ros-chodese/ros-chodes-200...

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Ruth Elias's Timeline

1922
October 6, 1922
Ostrava, Czechia (Czech Republic)
1944
July 1944
Oswiecim, Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
2008
October 11, 2008
Age 86
Beit Yitzhak-Sha'ar Hefer, HaSharon, Center District, Israel