Defying the Tide
Defying the Tide Ruth Abraham and Maria Nickel would never have met each other if it hadn't been for the Shoah. This story of unbridled compassion made world headlines in May, 2000 in Berlin, Germany…
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Defying the Tide
Ruth Abraham and Maria Nickel would never have met each other if it hadn't been for the Shoah. This story of unbridled compassion made world headlines in May, 2000 in Berlin, Germany when Ruth, then 87 and recovering from heart bypass surgery, met her friend Maria, 90, for the last time. But when Hitler turned Germany into a cauldron of anti- Semitism, Maria Nickel decided that morality and ethics were more important than even life itself.
It's the Christmas rations for Germans. In 1942 Ruth, eight months pregnant, and on her way to certain death, was stopped by a German woman in a gray coat who offered her food, saying, Take this. I can't have Christmas with my family knowing that you are carrying a baby and don't have enough to eat.
Their long and arduous journey together reached its climax when Maria and her husband gave their identity papers to Ruth and Walter and with it the