Discover the compelling story of Ruth and Meir Kalka. through the lens of Ruth's Diary. The Kalkas were born in Poland and married in the Czestochowa ghetto in 1941. The Germans forced them to work in the nearby Hasag factory, and this way they evaded the deportations. Ruth kept a diary during this time, documenting their experiences and hardships. After their families were deported and murdered, Ruth and Meir escaped the ghetto, living in constant danger for two years. Miraculously surviving until liberation, they immigrated to Israel in 1949, where they built a new life. Ruth's diary is now preserved at Yad Vashem's Moshal Shoah Legacy Campus, in the David and Fela Shapell Family Collections Center, along with thousands Holocaust artifacts safeguarded for eternity at Yad Vashem.