Ruth Elias

RUTH ELIAS was a Holocaust survivor and the author of Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel, translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo and published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Elias received recognition for Triumph of Hope, described as award-winning.

Elias was born Ruth Huppert on October 6, 1922, in Moravská Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. Deported in 1942 to the Theresienstadt ghetto and later to Auschwitz, she survived an experiment conducted by Dr. Josef Mengele. After liberation she emigrated to Israel, and the experiences of those years became the foundation of her memoir.

Elias resided in Beth Yitzchak, Israel, and died on October 11, 2008, at age 86.

Ruth Elias’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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