Ruth Meyerowitz
Nació: 1929, en Frankfurt, Alemania
Describe sus memorias de los crematorios de Auschwitz [Entrevista: 1990]
The crematorium was just a uh few minutes away. We could see the chimneys from uh...uh wherever we were and of course we could smell the uh first the gas when it was left...let out from uh the gas chambers, and, and then we could smell the burning of the bodies, the human flesh burning. And then they cleared the grates and we could hear the grates uh being cleaned, and it's similar to what your own oven would be like when you move the grates around except in a much, it was much noisier that we could hear it all the way in the barracks. And, uh, to this day when I clean my own oven, I am reminded of that noise of the cleaning of the grates in the crematorium.
The crematorium was just a uh few minutes away. We could see the chimneys from uh...uh wherever we were and of course we could smell the uh first the gas when it was left...let out from uh the gas chambers, and, and then we could smell the burning of the bodies, the human flesh burning. And then they cleared the grates and we could hear the grates uh being cleaned, and it's similar to what your own oven would be like when you move the grates around except in a much, it was much noisier that we could hear it all the way in the barracks. And, uh, to this day when I clean my own oven, I am reminded of that noise of the cleaning of the grates in the crematorium.
En Frankfurt, la familia de Ruth enfrentó medidas antisemitas que se iban intensificando. El negocio de su padre fue expropiado y la escuela de Ruth fue cerrada. En abril de 1943, Ruth y su familia fueron deportados a Auschwitz. Ruth fue seleccionada para trabajos forzados y asignada a reparar las carreteras. También trabajó en el equipo "Kanada," clasificando las pertenencias de quienes eran enviados al campo. En noviembre de 1944, Ruth fue transferida al campo de Ravensbrueck en Alemania. Fue liberada en mayo de 1945, durante una marcha de la muerte desde el campo de Malchow.
— US Holocaust Memorial Museum - Collections
