Sara Rus
Sara Rus (F / Poland, 1927), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Lodz Ghetto> <Auschwitz> <KZ Freiburg> <Mauthausen -- <Argentina>
Biography
March of the Living
SARA RUS was born in 1927 in Lodz, Poland. Until the Nazis entered Lodz She went to the Jewish school and studied violin. In 1940 they were forced to move to the lodz ghetto where they lived in subhuman conditions. There she met her future husband, Bernardo. In 1944 she was taken with her family to Auschwitz, there she suffered separation from her father whom she never saw again. She was transferred to Freiberg to work in an aircraft factory and then to Mauthausen camp, where Sara and her mother regained their freedom on May 5, 1945. Sara weighed less than 30 kg. like her mother. She married Bernardo and decided to emigrate to Argentina. Sara had two children, Daniel and Natalia. In July of 1977, Daniel Rus was kidnapped at the door of the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA), where he worked while preparing his thesis to be a physicist. Then the tireless search began and she joined the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the Founding Line, where she continues working until today. Sara’s daughter Natalia gave her two granddaughters and 4 great-grandchildren.