Jar conjunto ko nuestro “Socios jar ar ntsuni” programa financiado ir nge ar UJA — Federación ar Nueva York, ar ne contará ko entrevistas 'rato ya sobrevivientes locales pa t'ode hño ar 'bede ya jä'i.. Gi entrevistas ar exhibirán jar galería Tabernáculo Hebreo “Experimentando 'nar pa hñäki ne ma'bu̲: Retratos enérgicos sobrevivientes ar Holocausto”. Ar galería abrirá yá puertas ar Mbehe 8 ar Nobyembre.
Ruth Wertheimer has been a member at the Y for over a decade. You can find Ruth at the Y for special events and programming, especially at Sunday concerts at the Center for Adults Living Well @ the Y.
Ruth Wertheimer(photography by Roj Rodriguez: www.rojrodriguez.com)
Ruth Wertheimer was born in Mannheim, Germany on June 6, 1931. At the age of one, her father died. Her mother raised her and her older brother in Mannheim, Germany. Ruth’s mother owned a thrift shop in town. Growing up in Mannheim was difficult. She remembers having very little schooling as a child. Ruth recalls experiencing anti-Semitism from a very young age. She recounts being called a dirty Jew as well as being beaten up in the streets. The anti-Semitism was so rampant that Ruth’s brother used to take her to their grandmother’s house. They would avoid main roads to prevent being beaten up. Their mother could not join them because she was busy working at the family’s store.
In Mannheim, Germany, Kristallnacht began on November 10, 1938. Ruth recalls the events of Kristallnacht, “we lived in this place with an Orthodox synagogue that had a rabbi and a cantor. There was an office there for social workers and a Jewish school. These buildings surrounded a schoolyard…It started at 6 in the morning, you heard the noise of the burning buildings…it was terrible. There was a lot of noise and I was scared.” Ruth’s synagogue, The Haupt synagogue, was destroyed that day.
Once the destruction was finished, Ruth remembers her family’s store being completely ruined. “We had a beautiful photograph of my brother in color and they took it and put it out in the street…and wrote underneath ‘dirty Jew.’ Dirty Jew! It was a beautiful picture.” After seeing the destruction, Ruth’s family decided that they should leave the building they were living in. Her grandmother was a diabetic and she used to receive her injections from nuns so the family decided that it would be best to seek refuge with the nuns. The entire way there, they were followed by teenagers who were calling them ‘dirty Jew’. Ruth was able to find protection with the nuns for a while. From there, she and her family left to stay with relatives.
Ja 1940, Ruth’s brother celebrated his bar mitzvah in an Orthodox synagogue in Mannheim. Three weeks after this joyous occasion, she and her family were rounded up and brought to a camp called Camp Gurs in France. Ruth remembers “we had one hour to pack and we didn’t know where we were going. We were put in some kind of recreation hall overnight, I’m not sure anymore, and the next day we were put on a train and we did not know where we were going. I had a grand aunt that was there too and she was with us and she brought sugar cubes and lemon to eat. We had nothing to eat. Finally we arrived in the camp. It was horrible: you had mud up to your knees, you were in a barrack with 20 people maybe. Rat, mice, lice, you name it. You slept on the floor with straw.” After being in Camp Gurs for a year, someone from the organization OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) came to the camp. OSE is a French- Jewish organization that saved hundreds of refugee children during the Holocaust. The representatives from OSE asked the parents in the camp if they wanted to give up their children. Ruth recollects that her mother never wanted to give up any of her children, but with great difficulty, she did. Ruth was given up first. From Camp Gurs, Ruth was taken to Chabannes. After being in Chabannes for some time, Ruth remembers that it was not safe there anymore and some of the older children were taken to Auschwitz. After this, OSE felt that it would be best to move the children.
Ruth was placed with a Jewish family for four months. She was then moved to a gentile family. Ruth remembers, “…my name was not Ruth anymore. I was Renee…I wasn’t Jewish then.” In France, children went to school on Saturdays instead of Thursdays. Ruth went to school on Saturdays. One day at school, the police came and began to question Ruth, “I was always told to tell the truth. So I told the police everything.” She informed the family that she was staying with and that night, social workers from OSE came and took Ruth and placed her in a convent in 1943. She changed her name again to Renee Latty.
While hiding in the convent, Ruth remembers, “I did the sign of the cross with the left hand, you are supposed to do it with the right hand! Then they brought me to church and I didn’t know anything. Everyone was going into a booth so I went too. It was a confession booth. I didn’t know what that was…I didn’t know what to do…I became so Catholic, that you didn’t know that I was never not Catholic.” Ruth stayed in the convent for about a year until the war was liberated.
After the war was liberated, Ruth stayed at different OSE homes. For two years, Ruth did not know where her brother was. She and her brother finally reunited at one of the OSE homes. They then lived in Limoges, France and then near Paris before traveling to America together.
At the age of 15, Ruth, her brother, y 72 other children traveled to America together on the children transport. They landed in America on September 7, 1946. The boat was overcrowded and many of the children were sea sick. When they arrived in New York, there was a strike at the pier and they could not dock. The OSE was able to arrange for a small boat to come and take the children ashore.
When Ruth first got to America, she lived with an aunt and uncle and says that it was very difficult for her. Shortly after, she moved to Queens with another relative. This relative had a daughter around the same age as Ruth. She remembers starting school and that her relative’s daughter went to a better school than she did. Ruth had a difficult time managing in school and her relatives told her that if she did not finish school, they would kick her out. Because she was having such difficulties in school, Ruth was kicked out in 1948.
Since June 1948, Ruth has lived in Washington Heights. She realized that she had to learn a trade in order to survive so she decided to go to beautician school. She attended the Wilfred Academy and fell in love with her courses. She went on to receive her beautician’s license. Hebrew Tabernacle was the first synagogue she joined since she came to America and she has been a member ever since. She has one son and two grandchildren who live in Wisconsin.
Nuna ar entrevista bí realizada ya Halley Goldberg ar ar mfeni Y s Partners in Caring ne pertenece ar YM&YWHA Washington Heights ne Inwood. Njapu'befi nuna hñei 'ñotho ar je̲ya 'bu̲ xi 'yot'i tanto ar ar ne Komo ar ar entrevistado xí estrictamente prohibido.. Obtenga mäs ungumfädi dige ar programa Partners in Caring nuwa: http://ywashhts.org/partners-caring-0
Tabernáculo Hebreo Galería Armin ne Estelle Gold Wingjar orgullosa asociación koar YM&YWHA Washington Heights ne InwoodDi invita jar nuestroNobyembre yá disyembre, 2013 Exhibir“Experimentando 'nar pa hñäki ne ma'bu̲: Retratos enérgicos sobrevivientes ar Holocausto” fotografías ne esculturas ar: YAEL BEN — ZION, PETER BULOW ne ROJ RODRIGUEZ. Jar conjunto ko 'nar hontho hontho jar memoriaya ar75º Aniversario de la Kristallnacht - la Noche de los Cristales Rotos'Befi ne Recepción ar Apertura ar ar Artista, Mbehe, 8 ar Nobyembre, 2013 7:30 hne.m.
'Nar hmä ar ar ne : ” Nxoge décadas, washington Heights yá Inwood ne ge, ne te̲ni komongu, 'nar refugio pa ga̲tho nu yá da buscan refugio, nt'emunsu ne da 'yo̲de. Xingu ya da ku̲t'i ya nuestras puertas ne participan HMUNTS'UJE programas xi vivido pruebas ne tribulaciones mi otho siquiera podemos ndi ndu̲i ndi mi.. Pa 'ra, hoki yá 'be̲hñä yá formarán 'nar xe̲ni ar nuna ar exposición, 'na esos horrores xi zo̲ho̲ da conocido ya jar ximha̲i simplemente komongu "El Holocausto" – asesinato sistemático 'rato millones judíos Europa.
Nugu̲je ja ar ne recordamos ar ndamäni, honrar mi vivieron ne murieron Nxoge Nunu̲ ar pa, ne salvaguardar majwäni pa ya 'mui futuras. Ya ar hño nugu̲ju̲ xkagentho ne hmunts'uje bätsi, debemos ungumfädi ya historias ga̲tho nu yá nä'ä xi experimentado ya males ar hñäki. Jawa lecciones da meya pa ar futuro. Ya entrevistas gi 'bu̲hu̲ documentadas ya Halley Goldberg, 'nar supervisor ar programa "Partners in Caring". Nuna ar programa vital mar tsa̲ jamädi 'nar generosa subvención ar ar UJA — Federación ar Nueva York, diseñado pa mejorar ja yá nthe ko ya sinagogas jar Washington Heights ne Inwood. “
Ma exposición arte Nxoge presenta retratos ne entrevistas sobrevivientes ar Holocausto, Hannah Eisner, Charlie ne Lilli Friedman, Perla Rosenzveig, Fredy Seidel ne Ruth Wertheimer, nga̲tho ya ne nuya ya Maxte Tabernáculo Hebreo, 'nar congregación judía da xingu ya judíos alemanes huyen ya nazis ne pe̲ts'i ar suerte ar ehe Amerika, unió da finales ar década 1930. 'Nehe, 'nehe honraremos bí sobreviviente ar Holocausto Gizelle Schwartz Bulow.- nänä ma artista Peter Bulow ne sobreviviente ár ñoho hñäki jar nxoge ximhai Yan Neznanskiy — tada ar Director Programas ar ar ne, Victoria Neznansky.
'Nar hontho hontho ar nsabdo, ko altavoces, jar memoria ar 75 ar pa ar ntso̲ni ar Kristallnacht (nxui ya cristales rotos) teni ar inauguración ar exposición Gold Gallery yá ne:Ya 'befi comienzan puntualmente ja ya 7:30 BÍ. Ga̲tho gi 'bu̲hu̲ invitados da wat'i.
Pa ar horario apertura ar galería wa da uni mäs ungumfädi, llame jar ar sinagoga da ar212-568-8304 wa nu'iHTTP://www.hebrewtabernacle.orgHmä ar artista: Yael Ben — Zionwww.yaelbenzion.comYael Ben — Zion nació jar Minneapolis, MN ne criado jar Israel. Ar graduada ar Programa nsadi Nxoge ya ar made ja ya Fotografía. Ben — Zion xi recibido ndunthe ar becas ne ar premios, mäs recientemente ar Fundación Puffin ne NoMAA, ne ár obra xi xi expuesta ir 'rangu̲di ne jar Europa. Xi publicado yoho monografías ár obra. 'Bu̲i Washington Heights ko ár ndo̲., ne yá gemelos.
Hmä ar artista: Pedro Bulow: www.peterbulow.com
Ma nänä nxutsi, xkí 'ma̲i escondido Nxoge ar Holocausto. A lo largo de ya je̲ya, ár mfeni, wa da imaginé ke mi xi ár mfeni, Xi tenido 'nar Nar dätä hño influencia ko ngeki. Nuna ar influencia ar refleja tanto ja ma nzaki jä'i Komo ja ma nzaki artística.. Dá 'bu̲i ar India, Viví nu'bu̲ mí ge 'nar bätsi pequeño jar Berlín ne emigré ja ya Mi'rangudi ko ma tada ar bätsitho 8. Dí 'ñehe 'nar Maestría jar Bellas Artes jar escultura. 'Nehe Dar receptor 'nar subvención nä'ä di permitirá ga hoki 'nar 'bede limitado bustos bronce sobrevivientes ar Holocausto.. Jaki ar mäte, gi ga japi ga pädi nu'bu̲ xi interesado jar 'mui nuna ar 'be̲fi.
Hmä ar artista :Roj Rodríguez: www.rojrodriguez.com
Ma komongu 'be̲fi refleja ma viaje ndezu̲ ar Houston, TX — ho dá ne crecí — bí Nueva York — ho, expuesto ár etnia, ar 'na'ño 'mu̲i ya ne ya socioeconómica ne ár visión ho̲ntho dige ya inmigrantes– Dá tini nt'emunsu renovado ya jár 'mui ngatho. Xta xi aprendiz fotógrafos xi hño establecidos, viajó nge ar ximha̲i extensamente ne colaboró ko xingu ya mpädi mäs xi profesionales jar hwähi. Ndezu̲ ar enero, 2006, ma carrera komongu fotógrafo Ndäse̲ ar xi convertido ja 'nar proceso ar asumir 'yot'e ya fotografía ya jä'i da surgen ma 'nar nt'ot'ise̲ da 'yo̲de ar nt'ot'e da compartimos jar ximha̲i ne ejercitamos ma creatividad komongu 'nar ga̲tho.
