Ruth Elias - Theresienstadt, Auschwitz

Ruth Elias - Theresienstadt, Auschwitz 

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 Patagoni" (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 

Ruth Elias - Theresienstadt, Auschwitz