Two Jewish sisters, who long outlived the Nazi regime, died 10 days apart in Alabama.
Ruth Scheuer Siegler died on September 3 at 95 years old, just over a week after her sister Ilse Scheuer Nathan died at 98 on August 23. After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust, including the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, Siegler and Nathan moved to the U.S. to fulfill their father’s dream, eventually settling in Birmingham, Alabama, CNN reported.
Siegler and Nathan were both born in Germany and lived there until fleeing to Holland in 1939 following Kristallnacht. Their father Jakob was arrested by Nazis five years later for refusing to remove his cap for a German officer. Instead of fleeing again, the family chose to stay together, and were all sent to a concentration camp before ending up in Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
