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Triumph of Hope

From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel

by Ruth Elias

Narrator Rebecca Gallagher

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Translator Margot Bettauer Dembo

Length 11 hours 5 minutes

Language English

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Summary
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Ruth Elias, a Jewish woman who was taken to Auschwitz while several months pregnant, recounts her challenging and unthinkable story of confronting perhaps the most agonizing choice so that she and her newborn infant would not die. Taken for Nazi medical experimentation, she confronted the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele and saved the life of not only herself but her child as well. This award-winning and internationally acclaimed testament features accounts of the aftermath of her imprisonment and the difficult path to a new life in a new land: Israel, where new challenges and obstacles awaited her.

Biography & Memoir History Nonfiction

Ruth Elias (1922-2008) was a Jewish woman who was sent to Auschwitz, where she and her unborn child were experimented upon by Dr. Josef Mengele. For decades after the Holocaust, she spoke of her experiences and of her solidarity with other women prisoners.

Rebecca Gallagher is an experienced narrator who specializes in a range of genres from fiction to inspirational. She received two Audie nominations for The Secret Holocaust Diaries. In addition to her voiceover work, she has also performed in a variety of stage and video productions.

Margot Bettauer Dembo is an award-winning translator whose credits include works by Judith Hermann, Robert Gernhardt, and Joachim Fest, among others. She has been recognized with the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize and the Goethe-Institut/Berlin Translator’s Prize.