Parental home Ruth Pilz, née Schlesinger

Ruth Schlesinger was born on January 26, 1921 in the Berlin district of Neukölln as the daughter of the married couple Georg and Marie-Helene Schlesinger. As the daughter of a Jewish father and a Protestant mother, she was later to be classified by the National Socialists as „half-Jüdin“. So was her brother Günter, who was born on April 10, 1924. Both, however, were raised Lutheran. At the age of six she moved with her parents to Görlitz. Here the parents had already married on September 10, 1919. The family lived in an apartment in the house at Mittelstra;e 17. She attended (elementary) school on Schulstra;e and later began an apprenticeship with the Jewish textile and haberdasher Louis Stern, who ran his business on the G&oumlitz Postplatz. While her father was deported in the course of the persecution of the Jews during the war years - but survived - she herself was imprisoned in Görlitz for a time. After the military defeat and the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, she remained in Görlitz.

Young people from Görlitz interviewed Ruth Pilz and recorded their experiences. The project's accompanying website contains numerous contributions as well as some audio recordings.

Order

• School/teaching
• Parents and brother
• 9. November 1938 – pogroms against Jewish businesses in Görlitz
• Imprisonment of father
• Repression against family
• Solidarity and support
• Verhaftung
• Gefänhaftung in Görlitz
• The march of the prisoners
• Flucht
• Verstecke
• 8. May 1945 – Day of liberation in Görlitz

Source: http://hospi30.de/zeitenspruenge/pagec4f7.html?p=7