About the author- Ruth Minsky Sender
Ruth Minsky Sender
Ruth was a survivor herself. She was born on May 3, 1926 (age 86) in Lodz, Poland to Avromele and Nacha Minska. She has only written 3 books about her experience. They are called The Cage (1986), To Life (1988), and The Holocaust Lady (1999). She was the fourth of seven children and her father died shortly after one of her brothers birth. She followed the invasion on Poland, while her older siblings went to Russia to try and escape forced labor. Ruth, her mother and her three younger brothers stayed behind and was forced to live in the Lodz ghetto. Not long after, her brother Laibele caught tuberculosis. On September 10,1946 her mother was forced out of the ghetto by Nazis and was taken away, due to looking sick. Ruth eventually had to grow up quickly because she had to adopt her brothers. Her brother died shortly after, and her two other brothers were rounded up by the Nazis and taken to Auschwitz. After a week, she was transferred to a labor camp in Mittelstone. Soon after she got there she got Blood poisoning, by a cut in her hand, and was hospitalized. After being sent to the hospital she was sent to another labor camp at Grafenort for the remainder of the war. She finally got her wish of being free and was let go. After that she moved to the United States and started a new family with Moniek Senderowicz. After the Liberation Ruth went back to Lodz with a couple of camp friends. Ruth and her friends found out that Jewish survivors were murder targets, and so they decided to stay in an abandoned apartment with a couple of other survivors. She was also smuggled to a displacements persons camp in Germany, where they gave birth to their sons Liabele and Avromele. Also while in the camp she also reunited with her brothers and sisters. After she immigrated to the United States where two more of her children Chaim and Nachele were born, and they settled in Long Island.