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Today — 10 October 2025Main stream

Ruth Weiss, Who Chronicled Apartheid After Fleeing the Nazis, Dies at 101

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 Commons

Ruth Weiss in 2004. Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, called her “the most humane woman I have ever met.”
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