![]() She managed to remove the yellow star from her clothing and pose as a Czech political prisoner. When it was discovered that Ruth was pregnant, she was sent to Auschwitz. She was sent to Hamburg to work cleaning the debris at a bombed oil refinery. She and her husband were deported to Auschwitz in December 1943. She had previously married, and became pregnant in the summer of 1943. They went into hiding on a farm near Brno, but were caught and sent to Theresienstadt. The foreman of her father's factory immediately seized it from him and the family lost their apartment. In 1939, the Germans entered her country in the prelude to World War II. ![]() She was a talented young pianist and hoped to become a professional musician. ![]() Ruth Elias, née Hupper, was born to a Jewish family in the Moravian region of Czechoslovakia. ![]()
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