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Ruth Elias - Theresienstadt, Auschwitz

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5003 | Film ID: 3112, 3113, 3114, 3115, 3116, 3117, 3118

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    Ruth Elias - Theresienstadt, Auschwitz

    Overview

    Description
    Ruth Elias was a Czech Jew who was sent with her family to Theresienstadt, where she became pregnant. She managed to hide her condition in Auschwitz but was eventually discovered and she and her baby were experimented upon by Mengele. She speaks of these experiences and of her solidarity with other women prisoners.

    FILM ID 3112 -- Camera Rolls #1-2 -- 01:00:13 to 01:14:46
    Ruth Elias tells of her early life growing up in Czechoslovakia. She describes the Germans entering Czechoslovakia in 1939. The foreman of her father's factory immediately seized it from him and the family lost their flat. Her father avoided being sent to Nisko and they lived in hiding in the countryside. On 4 April 1942 they were caught and sent to Theresienstadt, where she was housed in a large room in the Hamburger Kaserne with many other women.

    FILM ID 3113 -- Camera Rolls #3-4 -- 02:00:13 to 02:10:53
    [CLIP 1 BEGINS] Seven days after arrival her entire family was summoned for a transport but she became ill and could not go. Her father insisted that she go, so she married her boyfriend in order to stay. The rest of her family went on the transport and she never saw them again [CLIP 1 ENDS].

    FILM ID 3114 -- Camera Rolls #5-9A -- 03:00:12 to 03:33:50
    She became a trainee nurse and her husband joined the Ghettowache. Lanzmann asks her about the experience of the elderly in Theresienstadt. She received a card from her father saying that her mother had been shot before his eyes. She was hungry all the time and decided to leave nursing to become a cook so that she could be near food. She and the others sang in the kitchen as they worked.

    FILM ID 3115 -- Camera Roll #10 -- 04:00:14 to 04:11:15
    She demonstrates for Lanzmann one of the songs they used to sing, and accompanies herself on the accordian. [CLIP 2 BEGINS] She says that she was able to live with her husband and another couple and in the summer of 1943 she became pregnant. She tried to have an abortion but it had recently been officially forbidden by the Germans [CLIP 2 ENDS].

    FILM ID 3116 -- Camera Rolls #11-12 -- 05:00:06 to 05:19:10
    [CLIP 3 BEGINS] She and her husband were deported to Auschwitz in December 1943. She describes the rail journey, arrival at Auschwitz, the work and the food. She and her husband were in the Czech Familienlager. They learned from other prisoners that people were being killed at Auschwitz but they didn't want to believe it. In March 1944 an entire transport of people was removed from the Familienlager and gassed. She talks about the orchestra in Block 6 [CLIP 3 ENDS].

    FILM ID 3117 -- Camera Rolls #13-15 -- 06:00:16 to 06:33:43
    [CLIP 4 BEGINS] She was transported from the Familienlager to the Frauenlager, and when she was eight months pregnant managed to survive a selection by Mengele by hiding behind other girls. She was sent to Hamburg to work cleaning debris at a bombed oil refinery. When it was discovered that she was pregnant she was sent to Ravensbrueck. She and another pregnant woman were then sent back to Auschwitz [CLIP 4 ENDS] [CLIP 5 BEGINS] but they manage to remove the yellow triangles from their clothing and pose as Czech political prisoners upon their return to the camp. The two pregnant women come to the attention of Mengele. Elias describes Mengele as an attractive and polite man, of whom she was very frightened. Once her baby girl is born he orders that her breasts be bound to prevent her from breastfeeding, so that he can see how long a baby can live without food. Her baby cried and became weaker for several days until Mengele came and told her that the next day he would come for both of them. She knew she was to be gassed [CLIP 5 ENDS].

    FILM ID 3118 -- Camera Rolls #16-18 -- 07:00:10 to 07:36:56
    [CLIP 6 BEGINS] A woman doctor brought her a needle filled with morphine and told her to inject the baby with it, thinking that if the baby died Elias would be allowed to live. She injected the baby and Mengele sent her on the next transport to forced labor near Leipzig. At this camp she manages to consistently steal bread for herself and the other women. In early 1945 the Lagerfuehrer discovers that she can sing and orders her to organize a variety program in order to take the Germans' minds off the constant Allied bombing. It was during the rehearsals for this program that Ruth met her current husband, Kurt Elias [CLIP 6 ENDS]. [CLIP 7 BEGINS] They were liberated by the Americans and after the war she returned to Czechoslovakia and discoverd that none of her family members survived. She went into a deep depression and spent time in a sanatorium but eventually regained the will to live. In 1965 she located the woman who saved her life, the Jewish doctor who gave her the injection for her child. She remains very close to this woman today. She says that when her first boy was born she panicked when they came to take him away, thinking they would kill him. Nobody understood or wanted to understand what the survivors had been through at that time [CLIP 7 ENDS]. She ends the interview by talking about her love for Israel.
    Duration
    02:39:36
    Date
    Event:  1979
    Production:  1985
    Locale
    Tel Aviv, Israel
    Credit
    Created by Claude Lanzmann during the filming of "Shoah," used by permission of USHMM and Yad Vashem
    Contributor
    Director: Claude Lanzmann
    Subject: Ruth Elias
    Assistant: Corinna Coulmas
    Biography
    Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone de Beauvoir. In 1963 he married French actress Judith Magre. Later, he married Angelika Schrobsdorff, a German-Jewish writer, and then Dominique Petithory in 1995. He is the father of Angélique Lanzmann, born in 1950, and Félix Lanzmann (1993-2017). Lanzmann's most renowned work, Shoah, is widely regarded as the seminal film on the subject of the Holocaust. He began interviewing survivors, historians, witnesses, and perpetrators in 1973 and finished editing the film in 1985. In 2009, Lanzmann published his memoirs under the title "Le lièvre de Patagonie" (The Patagonian Hare). He was chief editor of the journal "Les Temps Modernes," which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, until his death on July 5, 2018. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/claude-lanzmann-changed-the-history-of-filmmaking-with-shoah
    Ruth Elias (1922-2008) was born Ruth Huppert in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, to Friedrich (Fritz) Huppert and Malvina Ringer and had an older sister, Edith (b. 1920). Following the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia, Fritz paid a Czech farmer to allow him and his daughters to work on a farm in Pozorice near Brno. In 1942 the family was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto where she married her boyfriend, Koni, and she became pregnant. Ruth and Koni were transferred to the family camp at Auschwitz. After Ruth gave birth to a baby girl, an SS doctor ordered the baby to be starved as a medical experiment. In October 1944, Ruth was transferred to Taucha, a sub camp of Buchenwald, where she met Kurt Elias, another Czech prisoner. When the camp was evacuated in April 1945, Ruth and Kurt both stayed behind and then fled to the woods, where they were liberated American troops. Ruth and Kurt returned to Czechoslovakia and learned that Kurt’s wife Lisa Wodak and child had perished and that none of Ruth’s family had survived either. Ruth’s marriage to Koni did not survive, she married Kurt in April 1947, and the couple immigrated to Israel in April 1949. Ruth published her story under the title "Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel."
    From 1974 to 1984, Corinna Coulmas was the assistant director to Claude Lanzmann for his film "Shoah." She was born in Hamburg in 1948. She studied theology, philosophy, and sociology at the Sorbonne and Hebrew language and Jewish culture at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and INALCO in Paris. She now lives in France and publishes about the Five Senses. http://www.corinna-coulmas.eu/english/home-page.html

    Physical Details

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    English
    Genre/Form
    Outtakes.
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    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem, State of Israel
    Conditions on Use
    Third party must sign the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's SHOAH Outtakes Film License Agreement in order to reproduce and use film footage. Contact filmvideo@ushmm.org

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the Shoah outtakes from Claude Lanzmann on October 11, 1996. The Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection is now jointly owned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem - The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority.
    Note
    Ruth Elias is in SHOAH (1985). The parts of her interview in the final release are not available at USHMM.

    Claude Lanzmann spent twelve years locating survivors, perpetrators, and eyewitnesses for his nine and a half hour film Shoah released in 1985. Without archival footage, Shoah weaves together extraordinary testimonies to render the step-by-step machinery of the destruction of European Jewry. Critics have called it "a masterpiece" and a "monument against forgetting." The Claude Lanzmann SHOAH Collection consists of roughly 185 hours of interview outtakes and 35 hours of location filming.

    Staff-curated clips include:
    Clip 1, Film ID 3113, 02:01:18 - 02:09:21
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    Clip 7, Film ID 3118, 07:28:37 - 07:33:52 (original audio is problematic at the beginning of this clip)

    Film ID 3118 contains a duplication of content from 20:40-28:31.

    Ruth Elias's book about her experience published in 1998 is called "Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel."
    Film Source
    Claude Lanzmann
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4736
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:23:50
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