Ruth Webber (b. 1935) was born in Ostrowiec, Poland. She was just four years old when the Germans invaded. Her experience of World War II took her first to the Ostrowiec ghetto, then to a labor camp, and ultimately to Auschwitz. In this 1992 interview, she described how, hidden in an outhouse in the Ostrowiec labor camp, she watched as four Jewish prisoners were forced to bury alive the participants in a failed escape attempt.

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