Ruth Elias

Ruth Elias (née Huppert; 6 October 1922 – 11 October 2008) was a Jewish woman who was born Ruth Huppert in Moravian Ostrava on 6 October 1922. Her parents were Friedrich (Fritz) Huppert and Malvina Ringer. Elias had an older sister, Edith (b. 1920). After the German annexation of Czechoslovakia, she was sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto where she married and became pregnant. She was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where she disguised her pregnancy and later selected for transfer to a labor camp in Hamburg, Germany where she was discovered to be pregnant. An SS doctor had her transferred to Ravensbrück concentration camp and then back to Auschwitz. When Dr. Josef Mengele discovered she was pregnant, he let her give birth just to see how long a baby could live without being fed. After a week, she injected her newborn baby girl with morphine which saved her life.

She subsequently went to Israel where she wrote a memoir, ''Triumph of Hope''. She died on 11 October 2008 at age 86 in Beit-Yitzhak-Sha'ar Hefer, Israel. Provided by Wikipedia