Ruth Klüger
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Ruth Klüger (30 October 1931 – 5 October 2020) was an Austrian-born American educator and writer. She was a Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of California, Irvine[1] and a Holocaust survivor. She was the author of the bestseller weiter leben: Eine Jugend about her childhood in the Third Reich.[2] She also wrote Still Alive. She was born in Vienna.
Klüger died on 5 October 2020 in Irvine, California from problems caused by bladder cancer at the age of 88.[3][4]
References
- ↑ Department of German: PeopleUC Irvine School of Humanities. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
- ↑ Mednick, Jason. A Holocaust Childhood (March 2009)University of California Irvine. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
- ↑ Die Schriftstellerin und KZ-Überlebende Ruth Klüger ist 88-jährig in den USA gestorben (in German), nzz.ch. Retrieved 7 October 2020
- ↑ Holocaust-Überlebende Ruth Klüger gestorben, dw.com. Retrieved 7 October 2020