She believes the Nazis made them do pointless, grueling work just to torture them.Īmid the relentless cruelty, Edith prefers to remember the rare moments of kindness that helped restore her faith in humanity. She was forced to do things like shovel snow from one side and back to the other without shoes. Because she was tall for her age, she was sent to work at another camp. 'I still was not in reality to see that they wanted to kill us.'Įdith was 15 when she was separated from her family. I was a teenager, and I did not have a drop of hair,' said Edith. 'When we get to Auschwitz, they cut off our hair completely, and I felt so humiliated. They and other Jewish families were taken to a nearby town square and forced onto trains. They didn’t know those trains were headed to Auschwitz. Edith remembers the day her family was forced to leave their home without any of their belongings. 'I had children that I played and one day, they were told never to play with Jews,' recalled Edith.Įdith's family moved to a bigger city so that they could live closer to more Jewish families and escape some of the rising tension. But outside of the home, in the 1930s, there was rampant and growing anti-Semitism. Her father was a businessman who shipped produce and made enough money to buy the family a nice house. The town was so small, Edith said, her phone number was '2' - '1' was the town's post office. Edith lived a mostly comfortable life. She agreed to share her story with Kind World because she wanted to share the moments of kindness she experienced during that dark time in her life.Įdith grew up in the small town of Nyirkaras, Hungary, with her parents and older sister. It’s estimated that of the 6 million Jews who died during World War II at the hands of Nazis, 1 million died in Auschwitz.Įdith Rubin, 91, first stepped foot in Auschwitz as a teenager but fortunately, she managed to escape death.Įdith doesn’t like to talk about her painful memories of the Holocaust.

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