כהן רות

Family deported to Westerbork on October 30, 1942; Ruth handed over at the Groningen train station to a man along with a note on which her grandparents' address is noted; taken to Amsterdam and placed with the van Noorden family, friends of her parents; deportation to Westerbork after it becomes known that the van Noordens will also be deported on May 10, 1943; transported by train to Bergen-Belsen; men, women, and children are separated in the camp; hunger; grandparents die; taken by train marked with red crosses to Theresienstadt in 1945; train is bombarded; train liberated by the Red Cross in 1945; improper behavior by Red Army soldiers; witness taken to Belgium, southern Holland, and Grongingen; joins the Habonim movement; immigrates to Israel in 1961; adjusts to life in Israel.