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Westheimer was born Karola Ruth Siegel, on June 4, 1928, in the small village of Wiesenfeld (now part of Karlstadt am Main), in Germany. [6] [7] She was the only child of Orthodox Jews, Irma (née Hanauer), a housekeeper, and Julius Siegel, a notions wholesaler and son of the family for whom Irma worked. [8]
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, renowned sex therapist who rose to fame nationwide for having blunt and honest conversations around physical intimacy, has died. She was 96. The Holocaust survivor died ...
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the Holocaust orphan who rose to become one of the most famous sex therapists in America, a 4-foot-7 celebrity with a big smile and a penchant for tackling the most taboo of ...
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the renowned sex therapist who was a straight shooter as a radio talk show host and TV personality, has died, ET has confirmed. She was 96.In a statement to ET, her rep ...
Born Karola Ruth Siegel in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1928, she was an only child. At 10, she was sent by her parents to Switzerland to escape Kristallnacht — the Nazis’ 1938 pogrom that served as a precursor to the Holocaust. She never saw her parents again; Westheimer believed they were killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer appeared on several television programs and authored nearly 50 books before her death at age 96 ... her third marriage to fellow Holocaust survivor Manfred “Fred ...
Ruth Westheimer, commonly known as "Dr. Ruth", German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, and Holocaust survivor [13] See also
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper, visited The Park Synagogue in 2015. Rabbi Skoff interviewed Dr. Ruth in an unrehearsed synagogue program entitled "The Rabbi and Dr. Ruth."