Sybil Ruth –Poems of a Survivor

In 1944 a once-privileged German woman Rose Scooler was taken to the concentration camp at Theresienstadt, to work as a slave labourer. In 2007 poet Sibyl Ruth discovered the defiant, darkly humorous verse that her great-aunt wrote in conditions of unimaginable hardship. She promptly set about translating pieces which had been hidden for over sixty years. Sibyl will read her translations of Rose Scooler’s work, as well as discussing what these poems mean for us today.