Ruth Westheimer Biography

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Register to read the introduction… When Ruth was 17 World War II ended and she had no home or family all she had was hope of starting over again a place where she would feel welcomed. Ruth’s life took many tragic turns. In 1949 she got her first teaching job working with Yemenite children and met David, an Israeli soldier, who she married. The next year she Ruth studied psychology in Paris at the Sorbonne. She later took a job at Planned Parenthood, Dr. Ruth felt so comfortable talking about sex that “she began to pursue a career in sexual education (German Corner).” In 1970 Dr. Ruth received her doctorate in education from the Columbia Teachers College. She began teaching that same year at Lehman College in the Bronx (German …show more content…
In 1935 Dr. Mengele earned his PhD from University of Munich where he received his PhD in Anthropology. In 1937 he was offered a position as a research assistant with the third Reich’s Institute for Heredity Biology and Race Research. There he met the man that changed his life, Professor Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, “the most acclaimed racial scientist of his day“. Mengele then learned that it was tolerable to experiment on human beings if it was for the good of science. Professor von Verschuer influenced Mengele so much that Mengele joined the Nazi Party and immediately applied for the highest group of the society, SS (Schutzstaffel). In 1940 Mengele was drafted into the army and served as a soldier. He didn’t just fight on the battlefield, but he also got to practice medicine (Doctor Josef Mengele: The Angel of Death) Ever since then Dr. Ruth took a job at Planned Parenthood as a sex educator, she’s helped people by answering questions about sex. Dr. Ruth went on air at a New York radio station and that’s where her audiences grew month after month and got piles of fan mail. Next, she obtained columns in newspaper, wrote a book, made home videos, appeared on television shows and launched her own web site in 1996 (German

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