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DISCONTINUE GAS MODELS AT THE PLANT. TONIGHT AND APPRECIATION OF A REMARKABLE LIFE RUTH SCHROYER SIEGLER ONE OF A PRECIOUS FEW HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN ALABAMA DIED EARLY SATURDAY MORNING HER STORY OF TRIUMPH OVER TRAGEDY COURAGE AND THE FACE OF INHUMANITY IS ONE WORTH TELLING LONG AFTER THE END OF HER DAYS HERE IS A PORTION OF THAT STORY I LEARNED FROM HER THREE SUMMERS AGO. SO IT REMAINS DIFFICULT I CONTINUE TO TELL MY STORY BECAUSE IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO NEVER FORGET WHAT HAPPENED WHAT HAPPENED TO RUTH SIGLER HAPPENED TO MILLIONS OF OTHER JEWISH CHILDREN OF THE 1940S A BEAUTIFUL CHILDHOOD AND A SMALL GERMANTOWN RIPPED TO SHREDS BY THE MURDEROUS NAZI WAR MACHINE TORN FOR MOST OF HER FAMILY IN 1944 RUTH AND OLDER SISTER ELSA WERE TAKEN AUSCHWITZ BURKA NOW A PLACE OF GAS CHAMBERS AND OVENS THAT BURNED BODIES THEY SURVIVED BY WORKING WE HAD TO CROUCHED DOWN JUST TO PUNISHER AND BEING USED DOWN FOR AH, NOT 15 MINUTES YOU FALL OVER AND THEN THEY WOULD COME AND BEAT YOU ON A FATEFUL SABBATH DAY, THEN BECAME IN OUR COMPOUND THERE WAS ON ONE SIDE WOMEN AND THERE WAS A AMOUNT OF DIRT I AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF A MAN AND WE SAW MY FATHER AGAIN. WE TALKED TO HIM. AND HE BLESSED US. WE WILL THEN SELECTED FORWARD IN THE OTHERS WERE SENT TO THE CASE CHAMBER RUTH HELD TIGHT TO SISTER ELSA UNTIL HITLER WAS DEFEATED AND THE DEATH CAMPS WERE LIBERATED THEY SURVIVED AND THOUGH THEY HELD HOPE FOR MANY YEARS. THEY NEVER SAW THEIR PARENTS AGAIN, AND IT TURNS OUT THEIR BROTHER DIED ONLY THREE WEEKS BEFORE AMERICAN TROOPS FREED THE STARVING PRISONERS OF NAZI IN HUMANITY FOR THOSE WHO DENIED THE EVENTS OF THE HOLOCAUST. I IMPROVED TODAY THE AGE OF 92 RUTH AND ELSA RAISED THEIR FAMILIES HERE IN BIRMINGHAM RUTH HAS THREE CHILDREN AND SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN AND OFTEN SAY THIS IS MY REWARD. AND HOW REWARDING IT WAS TO MEET AND KNOW RUTH ZIEGLER RUTH’S PASSING ON SATURDAY FOLLOWED THE DEATH OF HER BELOVED SISTER ELSA BY JUST 10 DAYS ILSE WAS 98 RUTH WAS 95 NO FORCE. HOWEVER, POWERFUL WOULD EVER KEEP THEM APART.