Ruth Weiss, Who Chronicled Apartheid After Fleeing the Nazis, Dies at 101 NYT | Top Stories Adam Nossiter 10 October 2025 at 05:10 Her life and work were shaped by confronting injustice in South Africa and Germany. “Blacks under apartheid — Jews under the swastika. Was it all that different?” she asked. © Wilfried Hiegemann, via Wikipedia CommonsRuth Weiss in 2004. Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, called her “the most humane woman I have ever met.”