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TV shows, movies, video games, anime, comic books, novels and even songs are things we like to see, but events pertaining to real life are not. Rule 3 - Theories must be about creative works For her and other survivors, these are uncertain times, with an alarming surge in anti-Jewish sentiment.It's okay to dislike a theory but it's not okay to dislike a person because they don't agree with you, so please treat people with respect.įor more information, please read our in-depth policy on this rule.Įvidence makes for a good theory, this will be judged at the discretion of the mods. Within a decade, virtually all will be gone. Ruth Steinfeld is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors who are still alive and able to tell their stories. They would eventually learn that their mother and father were both killed in Auschwitz. After the war ended, their grandfather managed to find them and bring them to America. She and her sister spent the next five years posing as Catholics and moving from one foster family to another when neighbors became suspicious. Ruth, left, and her sister Lea with their mother Anna in Ladenburg, Germany, 1936.Ĭourtesy of Ruth Steinfeld and Lea Krell Weems
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It would be years before she could understand the enormous love behind that painful decision. "I couldn't understand why my mother would give me away, especially when I promised that I would be good," she recalls.
This decision saved the girls' lives, but with a terrible cost.Īll these years later, Steinfeld still breaks down crying as she describes the separation to the Hastings students. Her mother made the heart-wrenching decision to entrust 7-year-old Ruth and her sister Lea to the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants, a French Jewish humanitarian organization that smuggled children out of camps and into hiding with foster families. Ruth was 7 when her family was sent to a concentration camp. Her father was immediately separated from the family, and they never saw him again. In 1940, Ruth and her family were rounded up and moved to a concentration camp in Gurs, France. When she was 5 years old, her family home was vandalized during Kristallnacht, or "The Night of Broken Glass," a two-day campaign of violence orchestrated by the Nazi party that resulted in the destruction of 7,500 Jewish-owned buildings and the arrest of 30,000 Jews. Steinfeld was born in Germany in 1933, the same year that Hitler rose to power. Ruth Steinfeld talks with students at Hastings High School in Houston, Texas. It happened to me," she recently told a group of students at Hastings High School in Houston as part of her decades-long mission to share her story. "I want you to know this really happened.
The school superintendent later apologized.įor Ruth Steinfeld, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor living in Texas, that incident was not just offensive, it was a warning sign. Last November, teachers in a Texas school district were told that they needed to make "opposing views on the Holocaust" available to students under a new state law that requires teaching "multiple perspectives" on controversial issues - as if the Holocaust were a matter of debate.
require the subject to be taught in schools - and the quality of that education can be questionable. Worse still, 1 in 10 blamed the genocide on the Jews themselves.
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