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Holocaust Memorial Day
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Ruth Gilbert was born in 1938 in Lodz, Poland. Upon Nazi occupation of Poland, Ruth and her family were placed in the Lodz Ghetto. Ruth’s father recognized how difficult things would continue to be and went to the black market, purchasing fake IDs for Ruth and her mother. In 1941, Ruth’s father bribed a guard to let him sneak Ruth and her mother out of the ghetto under the barbed wire.
Ruth and her mother hid with a family in Lublin, but only for a few months before the family was evacuated, leaving Ruth and her mother “homeless”. They rode the trains of Poland as “non-Jews” for 6 weeks. Ruth’s mother met a woman on the train who lived in Warsaw and promised she would let them come live with her. She was able to obtain a job as a maid for 6 different families over the years. When Ruth’s mother felt her employers suspected they were Jewish, they would leave the home immediately.
During the last year and half of the war, Ruth’s mother was a maid for a Countess, who entertained Nazi soldiers in her villa home, but secretly also worked for the underground in Poland.
In 1945, Ruth and her mother returned to Lodz and stayed there for 1 year before leaving for Germany. They lived in Munich for three years and received sponsorship to come to the United States in 1949.
Join us to hear Ruth's incredible story!