Holocaust Survivor's Secret Poison Ring

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

She Survived Five Death Camps

She and her sister survived five concentration camps during the Holocaust, including Auschwitz. All 84 of her relatives were gassed. 7

Weitz weighed 60 pounds these days, after suffering through typhus and the Mauthausen death march.

 


 
   

 

 

 

 

 

Jews Prepare To Poison Themselves

The ring was given to her 60 years ago, when she was a teenager. It contains a secret compartment where a person could hide poison to commit suicide, rather than face the prospect of living in a concentration camp.

 
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jews Preferred Death Over Buttock Whippings

Edith Stein forced to drop her bloomers in front of the whole camp.
   

 

 

 

 

 

She Only Remembered This After Forty Years

After the Holocaust, it took her 40 years before she wrote her book, I Promised I Would Tell, a promise that Weitz made to her mother the night she was taken away.
 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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