Ruth Glasberg Gold was born in Bukovina, Romania (now Ukraine) and deported at eleven to a concentration camp in Transnistria, where her parents and only brother perished. After the war she joined a Zionist youth commune, and escaped from communist Romania on a freighter, shipwrecked off a Greek Island. Rescued by the British, she was taken to a detention camp on the island of Cyprus. A year later she was freed to go to Palestine.Together with her commune, she created a new kibbutz in the Judean Hills near Jerusalem, and later entered Hadassah Nursing School in Jerusalem graduating as an RN. In 1954 Ruth became head-nurse at Elisha Hospital, then supervisor at Rambam Hospital, both in… Haifa.In 1958 she married and left Israel for Bogota, Colombia, where her son and her daughter were born. In 1972 the family emigrated to Miami, Florida. She was widowed in 1982.On January 27,2009 Ruth was a guest speaker at the U.N. at the International Day of Commemoration of the Holocaust. She was a participant in the International Study of Organized Persecution of Children; co-founder of WIZO (Women's International Organization) in the USA, founder of the first support group for child survivors of the Holocaust in Florida, and is a frequent speaker on the Holocaust. She is a freelance interpreter in seven languages.Ruth's Journey: A Survivor's Memoir is her first book. In 2000 it was translated into Hebrew and published in Israel by Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyr's and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. In 2003 the book was published in Romania by "Editura Hasefer" and in 2008 in Spanish by "Editorial Font" in Mexico. The German translation was published in 2009 by Edition Steinbauer GmbH in Vienna, Austria. The book was one out of the many attempts Ruth made to bring awareness and recognition of the tragic fate of the 250,000 Jews of Transnitria and tell the story To The US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her efforts proved successful when the name "Transnistria" was added on the wall of the Hall of Remembrance.