What is Ruth Klüger?
[[File:Ruth Klüger - Frankfurter Buchmesse 2010.jpg|thumb|right|Ruth Klüger at Frankfurt Book Fair 2010]] '''Ruth Klüger''' (30 October 1931 &ndash; 5 October 2020) was an Austrian-born American educator and writer. She was a Professor Emerita of German Studies at the [[University of California, Irvine]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hnet.uci.edu/german/people/ | title=Department of German: People | publisher=UC Irvine School of Humanities | access-date=7 February 2012 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212210505/http://www.hnet.uci.edu/german/people/ | archive-date=2012-02-12 }}</ref> and a [[Holocaust]] survivor. She was the author of the bestseller ''weiter leben: Eine Jugend'' about her childhood in the [[Third Reich]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mednick |first=Jason |url=http://uci.edu/2009/03/feature_kluger_090326.php |title=A Holocaust Childhood |type=review of ''Still Alive'' |date=March 2009 |access-date=7 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210050134/http://uci.edu/2009/03/feature_kluger_090326.php |archive-date=10 December 2010 |url-status=dead|publisher=University of California Irvine }}</ref> She also wrote ''[[Still Alive (book)|Still Alive]]''. She was born in [[Vienna]]. Klüger died on 5 October 2020 in [[Irvine, California]] from problems caused by [[bladder cancer]] at the age of 88.<ref>[https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/autorin-und-kz-ueberlebende-ruth-klueger-gestorben-ld.1314127 ''Die Schriftstellerin und KZ-Überlebende Ruth Klüger ist 88-jährig in den USA gestorben''] (in German), nzz.ch. Retrieved 7 October 2020</ref><ref>[https://www.dw.com/de/holocaust-%C3%BCberlebende-ruth-kl%C3%BCger-gestorben/a-36142757 ''Holocaust-Überlebende Ruth Klüger gestorben''], dw.com. Retrieved 7 October 2020</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kluger, Ruth}} [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:1931 births]] [[Category:Deaths from bladder cancer]] [[Category:Austrian Jews]] [[Category:Holocaust survivors]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the Unite