RIP: Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 96
Jul. 13th, 2024 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneDr. Ruth was born in Frankfurt, Germany to Jewish parents in 1928. In 1938 her father was loaded into a truck the week after Kristallnacht to be taken to a labor camp and she never saw him again. Her mother put her on a train to go to a boarding school in Switzerland the following year, and that was the last she saw of her mother. She kept in mail correspondence with her relatives during the war until it all stopped.
After the war, she went to the nascent state of Israel and joined one of the fighting forces trying to keep the country alive. She later married a Jewish soldier. She said of her growing up in an orphanage and losing her parents and family, “I was left with a feeling that because I was not killed by the Nazis — because I survived — I had an obligation to make a dent in the world,” Dr. Westheimer once told an interviewer. What she did not know, she added, was that the dent would entail her “talking about sex from morning to night.”
She settled in at the height of 4'7", and was quite the dynamo. Rest well, doctor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/13/dr-ruth-westheimer-sex-dead/
After the war, she went to the nascent state of Israel and joined one of the fighting forces trying to keep the country alive. She later married a Jewish soldier. She said of her growing up in an orphanage and losing her parents and family, “I was left with a feeling that because I was not killed by the Nazis — because I survived — I had an obligation to make a dent in the world,” Dr. Westheimer once told an interviewer. What she did not know, she added, was that the dent would entail her “talking about sex from morning to night.”
She settled in at the height of 4'7", and was quite the dynamo. Rest well, doctor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/13/dr-ruth-westheimer-sex-dead/
