![]() She subsequently separated from Koni, remarried and emigrated to Israel. ![]() ![]() Add to Wish List Link to this Book Add to Bookbag Sell this Book Buy it at Amazon Compare Prices. Author: Ruth Elias, Margot Bettauer Dembo. Also detailed is Elias's harsh struggle to survive until the end of the war. Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel. Another prisoner helped Elias inject the baby with morphine on the sixth day. Horrifyingly, the author describes how camp doctor Joseph Mengele allowed her to give birth, then conducted an experiment to determine how long it would take her newborn son to starve to death. But the two were eventually sent to Auschwitz, where she tried to hide her pregnancy. To avoid deportation to a concentration camp, Elias married her boyfriend, Koni, a member of the Jewish ghetto police. After the 1939 German occupation of her country, Elias, with her father and sister (her parents were divorced), lived undercover in a Czech village until 1942, when they were betrayed and removed to the Theresienstadt ghetto. 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. ![]()
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