Ruth Muschkies Webber - February 2, 1987
Introduction
Could you tell me your name please and where you were born?
My name is Ruth Muschkies Webber and I was born in Ostrowiec, Poland.
During the war, where were you? What different places? Well, first I was in the ghetto in Ostrowiec and then we were in Bodzechów, Sandomierz, Starachowice, Ostrowiec camp, Annopol and finally Auschwitz.
And you were liberated right in Auschwitz?
Yes, I was liberated in Auschwitz.
Were you alone all that time?
No, fortunately I was with my mother.
How old were you when you were liberated in Auschwitz?
I was liberated in Auschwitz, I was um, about nine, nine-and-a-half years old.
Nine years old?
Yeah.
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