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x, 274, [4] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Signed on

x, 274, [4] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Signed on half-title page. Signature is in English and Hebrew with what is believed to be the word "shalom" in Hebrew. Some rippling at rear end paper (may have gotten wet but no impacts noted elsewhere). Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Ruth Elias was a Jewish woman who was born Ruth Huppert in Moravian Ostrava on 6 October 1922. After the German annexation of Czechoslovakia, she was sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto and then Auschwitz concentration camp where she survived experimentation by Dr Mengele. She subsequently went to Israel where she wrote a memoir, Triumph of Hope. Triumph of Hope From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel is the award-winning and internationally acclaimed testament of a Jewish woman who was taken to Auschwitz while several months pregnant, where she was forced to confront perhaps the most agonizing choice ever imposed upon any woman, upon any human being. so that both she and her newborn infant should not die in a Nazi "medical" experiment personally conducted by the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele., Ruth Elias recounts the aftermath of her imprisonment, and the difficult path to a new life in a new land: Israel, where new challenges, new obstacles awaited.