Ruth Rosenfeld / Ruth Ezekiel (F / Germany, 1930-2009), Holocaust survivor
Ruth Rosenfeld / Ruth Ezekiel (F / Germany, 1930-2009), Holocaust survivor
Bertl Rosenfeld / Bertha Esenstad (F / Germany, 1925), Holocaust survivor
Edith Rosenfeld / Edith Kaye (F / Germany, 1927-1998), Holocaust survivor
Herman Rosenfeld (M / Germany, 1933-1990), Holocaust survivor
Esther Rosenfeld / Esther Starobin (F / Germany, 1937), Holocaust survivor
Biography
Ruth Rosenfeld (later Ruth Ezekiel, 1930-2009) was born on August 11, 1930 in Adelsheim, Germany. In 1937, Ruth and her sisters Bertha and Edith were sent to live with their aunt Friederika Lemberger in Aachen, Germany where they attended a Jewish school. During Kristallnacht, the girls witnessed the burning of their synagogue and were informed that their school had closed. A maternal aunt, Hannah (Johanna) lived in London and arranged for families to take in the Rosenfeld sisters. In March 1939, at the age of 7, Ruth was sent on a Kindertransport to Great Britain along with her sisters Bertha and Edith Rosenfeld. Ruth was placed with a Jewish family in London but later lived in a hostel near Bloomsbury House. In November 1947, Ruth joined her brother, Herman Rosenfeld, in the United States. Her sisters soon joined them. Ruth married David Hirsch Ezekiel in 1952. They had three children, Aaron B. Ezekiel, Rachel Fishbein Ezekiel, and Tamar E. Granor. Ruth Ezekiel died in 2009.