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Ruth Beery (* 1937)

• 30 July 1937 was born as Růžena Rónová in Hlohovec

• middle-class Jewish family

• older brother Bedřich (1930-2009)

• from spring 1942, the whole family hid to avoid deportation

• stayed with relatives in Tisovec

• October 1944, little Růžena was entrusted to nuns in the convent in Banská Bystrica

• October 1944 - spring 1945, her parents and brother hid in Hungary

• April 1945, family reunited, returned to Hlohovec

• 1948, moved to Nové Zámky

• 1955, graduated from grammar school

• follow-up studies in construction engineering

• married, one daughter

• March 1968, legal immigration to Israel due to second marriage

• 1969, her mother also immigrated to Israel

• 1975-1979, lived with her third husband in Mexico

• since 1990s, regularly visits Slovakia and the Czech Republic

• lives in Israel

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