Rosette Ruttman from Toronto, Canada speaks about how her mother and her mother's 2 sisters were the first 1000 deportees transported to Auschwitz
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Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance JCHRnow.com and Facebook JCHR Group. Moderated by Jeffery Giesener - Founder Second Generation Survivor Rosette Ruttman from Toronto, Canada speaks about how her mother and her mother's 2 sisters were the first 1000 deportees transported to Auschwitz from Slovakia in May 1942. This first transport is detailed in the book entitled 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam and Caroline Moorehead. available on Amazon. The three sisters survived Auschwitz. Rosette's father was forced by the Nazis in Poland to do heavy labor destroying and repairing roads in Poland. The Nazis needed to move their heavy guns and tanks traveling east through Poland. Rosette's father was an inmate in several concentration camps including Sachsenhousen concentration camp. We was liberated by the Russians in May 1945 and was sponsored by his aunt who was living already in London, Canada to come and live in the same town.. You will learn how Rosette's father met his bride to be and how each came to live in London Canada. The stories of how each of the family made their careers in their newly adopted country. And how Rosette was born 8 years after their marriage. Rosette lovingly speaks about growing up in a very unique set of a two family home and living with what she describes as living with two sets of parents. She then leaves home to go to the University of Toronto, meeting her husband, eventually meeting Steve who is a dentist in Toronto. Wait and listen for a cute and funny story of how Rosette's family met Steve and how Rosette met Steve's parents. Rosette also discusses the birth of her only daughter and the raising of their only child who is now getting her masters at the University of Toronto. Rosette also shares with us some of her parents Holocaust traumas and how she inherited some of them. We collective discuss our Intergenerational Survivor Trauma and hear how Rosette's daughter shares in Intergenerational Survivor Trauma. https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-integenerational-trauma-5211898 You'll enjoy listening to all of Rosette's three episodes as she shares intimate family memories contained in a series of wonderfully emotive discussions all recorded for the Obligations Of Memory Podcast Network in conjunction with the Jewish Culture and Holocaust Remembrance Group on Facebook and YouTube Jeffery Giesener moderates and the recordings were made on 6.16.2022 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theobligationofmemory/message
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