Ruth Kamaryth
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Girls at the Weir Courtney children's home in Surrey: (left to right): Hedy Friedman, Zdenka Husserl, Mirjam Stern, Hanka Traub, Judith Singer, Tanya Muench, Ruth Kamaryth, Sylvia Grüner, Eva Traub; and (back row): Milly Schwarz and Magda Liberman
Ruth Kamaryth / Rut Kamarythová (F / Austria, 1938), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Austria> <Theresienstadt> <Liberation of Theresienstadt> -- <Windermere Children> <England> <United States>
Biography
Ruth Kamaryth was born February 28, 1938 in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of Veronica Kobald.
Ruth was in Belitz during the war and then in Theresienstadt until Liberation in May 1945.
After the war, she was sent to England with the Windermere Children. After a short time at the Windermere reception centre she was moved to the Weir Courtney hostel and then Lingfield House.
Ruth trained to be a nursery teacher. She eventually emigrated to the United States.
Sources
- USHMM Database (Ruth Kamartyn, 18 Feb 1938) -- YES
- 45aid.org (Ruth Kamaryt, 1938) -- YES