Creator Bio
Ruth Klüger
1931–2020
Vienna-born Ruth Klüger survived several concentration camps during World War II. She left Germany in 1947 for the United States, where she was a professor at the University of California at Irvine. Klüger was an authority on German literature; among her honors were the 1999 Thomas Mann Prize and the 2005 Goethe Medal.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
[…] I want to tell you about my brother’s ghost.
I had so looked forward to seeing him again: my Schorschi, my Czech brother, who had sent us a few postcards from Theresienstadt. But he wasn’t there…