Berta Reich

Berta Reich (born 1913 ; died probably 1995 ) was a survivor of the Shoah . At the end of 1943 she was deported from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau and in 1944 to the Taucha subcamp . At the end of the war she was liberated.

Life

Berta Reich was arrested in the early 1940s and taken to the Theresienstadt concentration camp with her five-year-old son , where the child died. In 1944 she was sent to the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where the National Socialist doctor Josef Mengele was responsible for the inmates. Berta Reich had a companion ( Ruth Elias ) who gave birth to a girl here in the concentration camp. Mengeles thought that this should slowly starve to death because the mother's breast was bandaged. An inmate dentist gave Ruth Elias a lethal injection, which she used to kill her child so as not to subject them to agony. Also Berta Reich was heavily pregnant and brought a few days (other) son, she also immediately after birth by a later Morphine - Injection killed to keep it in the gas chamber in agony or the announced common death. Berta Reich told the camp doctor that her child had been born dead. Both women thus escaped death in the gas chamber, but were soon transferred to the Taucha labor camp , a branch of the Buchenwald concentration camp . They were liberated at the end of the war.

After the liberation, Berta Reich lived in Prague until her death in the mid-1990s .

literature

Ruth Elias: Hope kept me alive. My way from Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel. Piper, Munich et al. 1988, ISBN 3-492-03266-4 .

Web links

Ruth Gutmann: A Final Reckoning. A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah. English version. University Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa AL 2013, ISBN 978-0-8173-1809-3 ( Google Books partially digitized ).
scrapbookpages: Auschwitz II - Birkenau - History of a man-made Hell (see section on Berta Reich and Ruth Elias) (English) (accessed March 20, 2018)
Pregnant in Hitler's time - "Good hope" or full of desperation (excerpt from the memories of Ruth Elias and about the common fate with Berta Reich) (chrismon 2006) (accessed on March 22, 2018)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Ruth Herskovits-Gutmann: Emigration not possible for the time being. The story of the Herskovits family from Hanover. Wallenstein, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-507-9 , p. 268. ( Google partial digitization )
^ ^A ^b Claude Lanzmann: Four Sisters (1/4) - The Hippocratic Oath, Ruth Elias. ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Arte, accessed on January 24, 2018 ( German version on Youtube ) (accessed on March 25, 2018) @1@ 2

↑ scrapbookpages: Auschwitz II - Birkenau - History of a man-made Hell (see section on Berta Reich and Ruth Elias):
“Berta Reich gave birth a few days later and immediately injected her baby with morphine, then told Dr. Mengele that her child had been stillborn. After saving themselves from certain death in the gas chamber at Auschwitz, both Ruth [Elias] and Berta were sent to Taucha, a labor camp near Leipzig, which was a sub-camp of Buchenwald. " Retrieved March 21, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Rich, Berta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Survivors of the Shoah
DATE OF BIRTH	1913
DATE OF DEATH	uncertain: 1995

[Auswandern-1] Ruth Herskovits-Gutmann: Emigration not possible for the time being. The story of the Herskovits family from Hanover. Wallenstein, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-507-9 , p. 268. ( Google partial digitization )

[Der_hippokratische_Eid,_Ruth_Elias-2] A ^b Claude Lanzmann: Four Sisters (1/4) - The Hippocratic Oath, Ruth Elias. ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Arte, accessed on January 24, 2018 ( German version on Youtube ) (accessed on March 25, 2018) @1@ 2

[3] scrapbookpages: Auschwitz II - Birkenau - History of a man-made Hell (see section on Berta Reich and Ruth Elias):
“Berta Reich gave birth a few days later and immediately injected her baby with morphine, then told Dr. Mengele that her child had been stillborn. After saving themselves from certain death in the gas chamber at Auschwitz, both Ruth [Elias] and Berta were sent to Taucha, a labor camp near Leipzig, which was a sub-camp of Buchenwald. " Retrieved March 21, 2018.