{"title":"Ruth Elias","description":"\u003cp\u003eRUTH ELIAS was a Holocaust survivor and the author of \u003cem\u003eTriumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel\u003c\/em\u003e, translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo and published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElias received recognition for \u003cem\u003eTriumph of Hope\u003c\/em\u003e, described as award-winning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElias 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElias resided in Beth Yitzchak, Israel, and died on October 11, 2008, at age 86.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth Elias’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"triumph-of-hope","title":"Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eTriumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel Now \u003c\/em\u003eavailable in English, here is the award-winning and internationally acclaimed testament of a Jewish woman who was taken to Auschwitz while several months pregnant.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eShe was forced to confront perhaps the most agonizing choice ever imposed upon any woman, upon any human being, so both she and her newborn infant should not die in a Nazi \"medical\" experiment personally conducted by the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele. And just as vividly, Ruth Elias recounts the aftermath of her imprisonment, and the difficult path to a new life in a new land: Israel, where new challenges, new obstacles awaited.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"One of the most powerful memoirs provided to us by a survivor.\" --Indiana Jewish Post and Opinion\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Well-written . not only provides a remarkably honest picture of the unspeakable reality of living in ghettos and slave-labor and death camps, but also what it meant to be Jewish in Europe. in the 1920s and 1930s.. This is one of the best Holocaust memoirs I have read.\"--Washington Jewish Week\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"The understated tone of this memoir adds to the author's powerful re-creation of her life as a young Czechoslovak Jewish woman during the Holocaust.\" --Publishers Weekly\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0471350613\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9780471350613\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Ruth Elias","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43212278300888,"sku":"9780471350613","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43212278333656,"sku":"9781620456187","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9780471350613_FChigh_mockup_v2_1738718466_38e92eb8-f535-4e94-b415-a5c5aaac0632.jpg?v=1790993217"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-ruth-elias.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}