When you hear the name Ruth Kluger what comes to mind? Maybe you’ve heard of her, maybe you read her book , maybe you know her for her job as a professor or maybe you have no idea who she is. Well I know her for being a survivor of the holocaust and a hero, and here’s how.
Ruth Kluger was born October 30th 1931 in Vienna Austria, as a child she was abused by her mother and often neglected she grew up watching the horrible events that changed her life. She grew up only knowing how to read and write. She attended eight different schools in four years, she later on just stopped attending school. Her father was taken to jail and murdered after her mother divorced him. In 1942 Ruth and her mother were forced to leave and they went to Theresienstadt.
Ruth Kluger was born October 30th 1931 in Vienna Austria, as a child she was abused by her mother and often neglected she grew up watching the horrible events that changed her life. She grew up only knowing how to read and write. She attended eight different schools in four years, she later on just stopped attending school. Her father was taken to jail and murdered after her mother divorced him. In 1942 Ruth and her mother were forced to leave and they went to Theresienstadt.