Ruth Klüger

Ruth Klüger (30 October 1931 – 6 October 2020) was Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of California, Irvine and a Holocaust survivor. She was the author of the bestseller (English translation by the author: Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered) about her childhood in Vienna and in Nazi concentration camps.

Biography Ruth Klüger was born on 30 October 1931 in Vienna.

In September 1942,

Klüger died in her home in Irvine, California, on 5 October 2020, 25 days before she would have turned 89. She was buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery.