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This was Ruth Weiss

Journalist and human rights activist Ruth Weiss died on September 5, 2025.

On the death of the German-South African journalist, writer and human rights activist

Ruth Weiss ©Ruth-Weiss-Association

Born in 1924 to Orthodox Jewish parents in Fürth near Nuremberg, Ruth Weiss had to flee from the Nazis to South Africa as a young girl. There she experienced the apartheid regime. This made her a lifelong fighter for human rights. More here.

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