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Ncuburger ENG 102-127 October 10, 2012 Summary Ruth Brand Ruth Brand was born Rifka Szabo to Mordechai and Gitza Szabo in Cuhea, Romania in 1928. She had one younger sister, Sara, and one younger brother, Fishel. Ruth and her family lived with her maternal grandmother and live as normal Jewish family life. When Ruth was a little girl, her father went to Argentina to make more money so he can move the family there, but he died a year later. Her mother operated a grocery store in Cuhea where Ruth worked from the time she was six. We grow up as adult, we work as adult Ruth Brand said in the interview. She remembered some Anti-Semitism from teachers who moved her to back the classroom and treat her unfairly because she was Jewish. Ruth began to feel the influence of the war in 1941 when Romania decreed anti-Jewish legislation. For instance, the family business suffered when they were no longer allowed to sell such basic items as flour, sugar, and oil and Jewish students were required to attend school on the Sabbath. When the Germans occupied Cuhea in March 1944, Ruth was working as a dressmaker in Budapest, but she returned home to be with her family. Four weeks later the family was sent to Dragomiresti, a large village near Cuhea where a ghetto had been established. What was hope in your future? To have enough for food Ruth Brand said in the interview. After a month in the ghetto, Ruth and her family were deported to

Auschwitz-Burkina. She later found out that the other members of her family were all sent to the gas chambers. We were live like an animal, without any knowledge Ruth Brand said in the interview. While in the camp, Ruth tried to maintain her belief and she and families, although starved and at great danger, they decided to fast move on Yom Kippur. In January 1945, they were forced on a death march to Bergen-Belsen. Several months later when Bergen-Belsen was liberated on April 15, 1945, Ruth and her families were near death. Ruth felt she did not want to return to Cuhea, so instead she went to Sweden. She had start over her life and education in Sweden. After few years she had reunited with her family in American. The faith had help me through all of tough time Ruth Brand said. (Words 393) Quote "What was hope in your future? To have enough for food They were your best friend until German come Word Cited Holocaust Survivor Ruth Brand Testimony. Dir. Naomi Loebel. Perf. Ruth Brand. Holocaust Survivor Ruth Brand Testimony. N.p., 1998. Web. 10 Oct. 2012.