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RUTH COHEN

RUTH COHEN

(MUKACHEVO/CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1930)

INTERNMENT IN GHETTO WITNESS OF SHOOTING DEPORTATION SEVERAL CONCENTRATION CAMPS LIBERATION REUNION

Had a great early childhood

1944 Forced with her family from their home into designated ghetto

Watched how favorite school teacher was shot dead

Family was deported to Auschwitz

Could stay together with her sister Teresa but separated from the rest of the family

Mother, brother and cousins sent to crematorium

Concentration camps in Nuremberg/Germany and Holysov/Czechoslovakia

Liberated by the US-army

Reunited with father

1948 Migrated to United States

Lest We Forget Washington, D.C. 01-21-2018