Ruth Elias (née Huppert; 6 October 1922 – 11 October 2008) 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 at age 86. Documentaries Heike Tauch: "Wann reden, wann schweigen. Ein Besuch bei Ruth und Kurt Elias in Beth Jitzchak" Deutschlandfunk 2007, 50 min Claude Lanzmann: Shoah: Four Sisters References Further reading 1922 births 2008 deaths Auschwitz concentration camp survivors Czechoslovak emigrants to Israel Czechoslovak Jews 20th-century Israeli Jews Jewish women writers Theresienstadt Ghetto survivors