Holocaust survivor Ruth Posner on wartime horrors, hiding and hope
hellomagazine.comActress, dancer and Holocaust survivor Ruth PosnerTo mark Holocaust Memorial Day, the 93-year-old has partnered with Holocaust Educational Trust to share her story in the hope that current and future generations never forget the horror of the Shoah – especially in the wake of rising antisemitism."How much do you want me to tell you about my life?" she asks, so we start at the beginning.Growing up, Ruth says she had two identities.
As a young girl, she considered herself Jewish but primarily thought herself a Pole. She attended a Catholic school, the only Jewish student enrolled, and fully immersed herself in Polish traditions.
Her mother was a fashion designer and her humanist father was a local government official. Both were murdered in Treblinka. Ruth was born into a secular Jewish family in 1930Ruth's first experience of antisemitism occurred when she was a schoolgirl. "I never denied my Jewishness, but I wasn't that involved.
So, it was a terrible shock, when very near the outbreak of war in 1939, I was outside playing, and a girl came up to me and said: 'You are a Jew!
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