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Try to Remember-Never Forget: Memoirs of Holocaust Survivor Ruth Goldschmiedova Sax
Meet Ruth Goldschmiedova Sax.
She is standing next to the dress that my Grandmother wore during the time she was in Oederan. She never took it off and every week she would bend over and the Nazis painted an X and stripe down her backside. The dress was initially given to her in Auschwitz. Ruth Goldschmiedova Sax’s life story begins in Moravia in 1928, where she lived comfortably as an only child with her parents. At the age of eleven the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia and life changed for everyone. By 1941, the family found themselves getting off a transport train in Theresienstadt, where Ruth was forced to grow up quickly. She was shaved to prevent lice infestation, wrapped her feet in paper to keep them warm in the winter, and witnessed the deaths of many. Separated from her father, she survived awful circumstances, only to be sent to Auschwitz in 1944, where she faced Dr. Mengele half a dozen times. Finally, with G-d’s help and liberation, she was reunited in 1945 with her mother and father, a miracle within itself. Ruth later emigrated to America where she married Kurt Sax, whom she had met at age seven. This memoir narrates the dramatic life circumstances that led her from her birthplace in central Czechoslovakia, to three concentration camps, and finally to her home in America. Future plans are to find a museum for this dress so that it can be displayed accordingly for all to see and remind us to NEVER FORGET.
She is standing next to the dress that my Grandmother wore during the time she was in Oederan. She never took it off and every week she would bend over and the Nazis painted an X and stripe down her backside. The dress was initially given to her in Auschwitz. Ruth Goldschmiedova Sax’s life story begins in Moravia in 1928, where she lived comfortably as an only child with her parents. At the age of eleven the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia and life changed for everyone. By 1941, the family found themselves getting off a transport train in Theresienstadt, where Ruth was forced to grow up quickly. She was shaved to prevent lice infestation, wrapped her feet in paper to keep them warm in the winter, and witnessed the deaths of many. Separated from her father, she survived awful circumstances, only to be sent to Auschwitz in 1944, where she faced Dr. Mengele half a dozen times. Finally, with G-d’s help and liberation, she was reunited in 1945 with her mother and father, a miracle within itself. Ruth later emigrated to America where she married Kurt Sax, whom she had met at age seven. This memoir narrates the dramatic life circumstances that led her from her birthplace in central Czechoslovakia, to three concentration camps, and finally to her home in America. Future plans are to find a museum for this dress so that it can be displayed accordingly for all to see and remind us to NEVER FORGET.
150 pages, Paperback
Published September 21, 2016
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January 19, 2020
This was the most poorly written, poorly organized Holocaust (Shoah) survivor story I have ever read (and I have read a lot). Written by the survivor's daughter, I continued to read the book out of respect to Ruth Goldschmiedova's life, but when the author went on a rant in Chapter 22 "Reincarnation" about a previous work environment and compared her boss to Hitler and her work site to a concentration camp, I grew angry. For a book that was supposed to honor her mother and the atrocities her mother suffered during WWII, chapter 22 was a slap in the face. This chapter was belittling to all Shoah survivors and those who were murdered in the Holocaust despite the author's email evidence of proof of complaint. Really.
What a shame for Ruth who deserved her story be told with dignity and grace.
Oh, yes, and the book contained historical errors.
What a shame for Ruth who deserved her story be told with dignity and grace.
Oh, yes, and the book contained historical errors.
January 21, 2019
Never forget
I never will forget this horrible time and the horrible things done to such beautiful people. I would recommend this book to my niece. She is like me a sponge to know all I can of this time in history. My heart is so sad for the ones that didn’t survived or did survive and carry those horrible memories.
I never will forget this horrible time and the horrible things done to such beautiful people. I would recommend this book to my niece. She is like me a sponge to know all I can of this time in history. My heart is so sad for the ones that didn’t survived or did survive and carry those horrible memories.
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