Ruth knows at a commemoration for the victims of the NS in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Photo: DPA/Oliver Berg
Until the end, Ruth has known us not to be silent and not only protest in the event of injustice and violence: “Remembering means acting” – according to the title of her last, autobiographical book together with Lutz. “We have to be active, specifically do something for endangered people!” – So convinced until their death.
On Friday, September 5, Ruth Weiss died in a hospital in Aalborg, Danish. As she wanted, knowing that inevitable operations were imminent.
She spent her 101st birthday on July 26th with her son at home, surrounded by nearby friends who had traveled from different parts of the world, especially from Germany. And she spoke by video to the guests of an exhibition in Tübingen, which is organized by René Böll in her honor.
In the usual clarity, she said on the day in one of several messages: “And we have to do that … against wrong, raise our voice against war and present us protectively from marginalized people, regardless of our advantages or disadvantages.”
Her own life is an impressive example of this: First in 1936 as a child of 12 years from Nazi Germany with her parents from Bavarian Fürth to South Africa, she later had to change countries several times as a young journalist, then also a single mother, after the apartheid government in Pretoria illuminated her in 1966. After stations in Zambia and Zimbabwe, she finally got journalistic recognition from England and Germany and became head of the Africa department of the German Welle in Cologne for a few years. South Africa was only allowed to visit them again from 1990 – after the release of Nelson Mandela.
In 2010, a junior high school in Aschaffenburg was named in Ruth Weiss. In 2014 she received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in Germany and in South Africa, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa personally presented her on April 27, 2023, the national Freedom Day, the highest award that can be awarded to non-South Africans. Finally, in 2024 she was awarded the great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Her public criticism of injustice, how and wherever she perceived it remained a constant. Also in the current “Gaza War” she clearly moved into a position for a two-state solution: “Both peoples, the Jewish like the Arabic and Palestinian, have the right to live in Palestine!”
According to her wish, Ruth Weiss will be buried on the Jewish cemetery in Münster on September 15th.
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