Ruth Bondy

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Ruth Bondy (2008)

Ruth Bondy , also Rut Bondi ( Hebrew רות בונדי, Born June 19, 1923 in Prague as Ruth Bondyová ; † November 14, 2017 in Ramat Gan ) was an Israeli journalist , author and Holocaust survivor of Czech origin.

Life

At the age of 16, Bondy belonged to the Zionist youth movement in Czechoslovakia and was preparing to emigrate to Palestine on an agricultural estate . After the outbreak of World War II , Bondy was no longer able to carry out this project and then worked in agriculture and in the kitchen of a children's home in Prague.

Because of her Jewish origins, Bondy was sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto in the spring of 1942 . In December 1943 Bondy was deported from there to Auschwitz-Birkenau . In July 1944 she was at Auschwitz in the satellite camp " bank Dessauer " of the Neuengamme transferred, where it was used together with other female prisoners to cleanup. After passing through other subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp, Bondy was taken to Bergen-Belsen , where she was completely exhausted in mid-April 1945 and liberated by members of the British army, suffering from typhoid .

After the liberation from National Socialism , she first returned to Prague and looked through documents about the Theresienstadt ghetto. From her extended family, 25 family members did not survive the Holocaust. Her mother died of blood poisoning in November 1942 in the Theresienstadt ghetto and her father in February 1945 in Dachau concentration camp . Of her family, only herself, her sister, a cousin and her grandmother survived the Holocaust.

After the end of the war, she was part of a Czech volunteer brigade that was preparing to leave for Eretz Israel . In August 1948 she completed military training and arrived in Haifa on December 31, 1948 .

Daughter Tal Bashan in 2015 at Masaryk University in Brno

Bondy worked in Israel as a journalist, columnist and translator (from Czech and German into Hebrew) and was also active as a writer. In 1954 she married the journalist Rafael Bashan, their daughter Tal Bashan became a journalist. Bondy was a co-founder of the Beit Terezín Memorial and Documentation Center, which opened in 1975 in Givat Chaim, north of Tel Aviv . There is an archive and an exhibition about the Theresienstadt ghetto. The author has received several awards for her work, including the 1974 Yitzhak Sadeh Prize .

Works (selection)

  • More luck than mind. An autobiography. From the Hebrew by Markus Lemke. Bleicher, Gerlingen 1999, ISBN 3-88350-662-1 .
  • Elder of the Jews: Jakob Edelstein of Theresienstadt. From the Hebrew by Evelyn Abel. Grove Press, New York 1989, ISBN 0-8021-1007-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death report , Ynet , accessed November 15, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c Short biography Ruth Bondy on www.ghetto-theresienstadt.info
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , p. 395.
  4. ↑ a b c Nili Keren: Jewish Womens archive - Ruth Bondy on jwa.org
personal data
SURNAME Bondy, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bondi, Rut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli journalist, author, translator and Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2017
Place of death Ramat Gan