Ruth Klüger

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 and a Holocaust survivor. She was the author of the bestseller weiter leben: Eine Jugend about her childhood in the Third Reich. 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.Die Schriftstellerin und KZ-Überlebende Ruth Klüger ist 88-jährig in den USA gestorben (in German), nzz.ch. Retrieved 7 October 2020Holocaust-Überlebende Ruth Klüger gestorben, dw.com. Retrieved 7 October 2020

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