Ruth Foster
Riga Ghetto & Stuffhoff Camp Survivor

Ruth Foster was amongst the 1,000 Jews from Lingen, Germany transported to the Riga Ghetto in Latvia. "We had to line up in rows of six," says Ruth. "In front of us a young couple walked. The father had a child in his arms. An SS officer came and asked the child, 'Would you like a sweet?' The child said, 'yes.' The SS man said: 'Open your mouth.' He then shot the child through her mouth." After a few years Ruth was sent to Stuffhoff. When the camp was liberated by the Russians Ruth weighed three and a half stone and was dying of typhoid. "It dehumanised us in every way. Some of us still kept our dignity. Others would go into the mortuary and bite the flesh out of buttocks. Some had knives and would cut out the liver. They were like cannibals."

Ruth lost her entire family in the Holocaust.

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