2024 First Person with Holocaust Survivor Ruth Elenberg Eisenberg
Ruth Elenberg Eisenberg remembers playing with dolls and enjoying special attention as the youngest of six children. Then, in the summer of 1941, German authorities invaded and began targeting Jews in Ruth’s hometown in Poland. During one round up by the Nazis in 1942, Ruth hid with her mother in a barrel used to store feed for horses. “We covered ourselves, and we didn’t breathe. … We heard them marching back and forth, back and forth.”
Watch to learn how Ruth continued to outrun danger for nearly two more years, and discover if she ever saw the rest of their family again.
Submit a question for Ruth during the live discussion on Wednesday, April 17 at 1 p.m. ET by signing into your KZread or Gmail account.
First Person is a monthly, hour-long discussion with a Holocaust survivor that is made possible through generous support from the Louis Franklin Smith Foundation.
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As a grandchild of a survivor, I watch as many of the first-person accounts as possible. Thank you, USHMM and Ruth Elenberg Eisenberg, for sharing this important story.
Thank you Ruth for sharing your life with us. Incredibly grateful and honored to hear your story. God bless you.
Thank you for this. I am sorry people have still not learned any lessons from this war. I appreciate y'all so much.
You are a beacon of hope for humanity
Watching from England......what a brave wonderful lady
Ruth, you are an amazing woman and I admire your strength and hope so much. God bless you ❤❤❤
I’m so happy that you survived that terror. Baruch Hashem! You are so well spoken and intelligent, courageous and lovely. Thank you for the inspiration you bring so something like this can be stopped before it happens again. May we all do our own little part.
From Indianapolis Indiana, Thank you Ruth, for your sharing these memories, or should I say nightmares from your childhood. How remarkable your memory is. I could not imagine how it must have been during the hiding years and I am so happy you are still on this earth in order to share this horrible period of history.
Thank you Ruth ...I'm originally from Poland❤
Thank you and God Bless you, Ruth! From Cincinnati, Ohio.
From Detroit Michigan. My favorite moderator!!
Thank you Ruth ❤.
You are so brave Ruth!👍❤
Thank you very much Ruth
You inspired me thank you For your bravery You’re My here
Ruth, thank you so much for sharing your story
Thankyou Ruth, for sharing your story with us. We are honoured to hear it.
Thankyou so.much Ruth.I am listening from New Zealand as I'm driving to work my heart goes out to you and all the other survivors
Thank u for sharing your story! This needs to be shared in our schools and COLLEGES here! Let them see/hear what hate does to innocent ppl. Im so sorry for what you and your family went through. I pray that this will never happen again in our world. Bless you and your family! Much love! Xo
God Bless! Happy Belated Birthday 🥳🎉🎈! I'm from Corpus Christi, Texas!
God bless you Ruth. Thank you for sharing your story.
My name is also Ruth!! Thank YOU so much for your story and your family
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Wonderful that you shared this with the World! We need for all the younger ones to know what happened so as not to repeat it! Unfortunatelly , history is being forgotten and kids are being indoctrinated in schools today. Bless you
Thank you for sharing. Wisshing you shalom. From Fam. de Vries, Netherlands
Thank you so much for sharing your story with us! Happy belated birthday ❤️
Thanks to Ruth and everyone who worked to make this video. 🕊️
Watching from Huntsville, Alabama. Thank you for sharing your life with us. It’s very inspiring to me.
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Fayetteville TN ! Hello neighbor
Happy Birthday Ruth!God Bless! ❤ so sorry! There are no words!
Thank You for sharing your story❤
hello from Poland Gdansk!
Thank you for sharing ❤ from the Chicago suburbs
I' m watching from Navarra, Northern Spain.
Thank you for sharing your experience in Nazi Germany. We need your truth. God bless you
Watching from Kasson, Minnesota USA.
Otra maravillosa historia, cruda y real!!!! Què fuerzas y paz refleja tu rostro, Ruth!!!! Muchas gracias y saludos desde Argentina
Watching from South Australia, Australia 🇦🇺. Bit late, apologies 🙏🙏
Ruth you're a Wonderful woman. So many bad memories. God has been with you ALL your Life. From Mossyrock , Washington USA
Beautiful storyteller. Each experience shares so much. I could listen for hours.
Ruth, thank you so very much for your courage and your openness in sharing the story of your life. I'm so sorry for the losses of your family members and all the suffering that you and so many others were forced to go through. God bless you.
Wow what a collection🎉
Happy birthday Ruth🎂 may the rest of your life be full of happiness and joy
I’m not Jewish, however I’ve read about the Holocaust. I now live in Madison, Wisconsin.
As a very young girl on visiting my grandparents there would often be friends of my grandparents visiting. They would have these numbers tattooed on their arms… I instinctively knew not to talk about them but I knew it was evil. Thank you for sharing your powerful story.
❤ to all
It is beyond my comprehension that human beings could be treated as they were. Man's inhumanity to man. God bless you Ruth
Hi love and hugs from Charlton in South Africa,I know it must be extremely hard for you to talk about what you've been through but I respect you highly 😢❤
Prayers for Ruth. What a sweet woman ❤
From Pretoria, South Africa
I'm watching from Ireland
🙏🇮🇱💪💙with love from California!
Miriam from Brooklyn thank you for sharing My parents were holocaust survivors from Poland
How horrific that because of the Nazis, so many families were ripped apart, one from another. The story of your mother's passing broke my heart. I'm so sorry...
Peace, Love ☮️
Thank you for letting us know
Extraordinary. Miraculous.
What a wonderful and sensitive host/interviewer
Pennsylvania
Watching in Kentucky.
Ty so awful I’m from Salem Massachusetts my heart goes out to you
Did a match-maker pick Ruth’s, her sister’s, and brother’s spouses for them?
I am so sorry for your pain
Sadly, there have been some swastikas drawn in bathrooms and on chairs at the local school. Administrators have responded by inviting a Survivor to come to talk to the children and tell them that this did happen and that it is not a joke or something to be laughed at. We can’t let this happen again.
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What a horrid thing to live through. I th9nk i had toxic life, but i cant imagine
Watching from India and this is such a terrifying experience I wonder how human being can be so evil and dangerous than wild animals , our hearts and our thoughts are evil,so does the Bible truly exposes the true nature of man kind
San Diego