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. She died on 11 October 2008. [From Wikipedia]