March 2020 - 77 years after the brave women of Rosenstrasse faced SS machine guns demanding the release of their loved ones, these same women were honored by the Garden of the Righteous Worldwide in Milan. My mother and I were invited to attend the ceremony, planned for March 6, 2020. We had our tickets and passports ready. Then, news broke about a highly contagious virus that was spreading rapidly around the globe. The Lombardy region soon reported its first cases and I watched in dismay as the numbers grew exponentially over the next several days and weeks. I asked my mother what she would like to do and she said she was very concerned about traveling. It was with a heavy heart that we informed GARIWO on February 25th that we would not be attending the event in person. Despite Covid-19 and despite the passage of time, GARIWO honored the women who saved so many lives in March 1943, enabling my mother to build a new life in America and to create new life; her four children, Kenneth of blessed memory, Rachel, Sarah and myself, Ruth. She has 5 beautiful healthy grandchildren and we are indebted to the women who selflessly risked their lives to save others.
“What, in a world gone mad, is the value of love?” 90-year old Rita Kuhn will tell you in her love story from the Weimar Republic. Be ready to be swept into a story of music, romance, biblical philosophy, and war.
Berkeley, CA - February 2018 - An inspiring story, written by an inspired author, has just been released by Cactus Moon Publications, LLC. In Another Ruth, Klara and Lev are two individuals from seemingly irreconcilable worlds who meet during a time of increasing social unrest and prejudice. Their courtship confronts them with the political and racial struggles in Germany during this turbulent period. Klara and Lev, caught in Berlin's upheaval during the rise of National Socialism, must ask themselves who they really are. What are their core values? What, in a world gone mad, is the value of love?
The book Another Ruth is named after the biblical Ruth, one of the first converts to Judaism. The Ruth in Kuhn’s novel is based on the author’s actual mother, Frieda Kuhn, who chose to become a Jewess in 1920’s Berlin just prior to Jews being targeted for annihilation by the Nazis.
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What, in a world gone mad, is the value of love?
It is Berlin 1920. Klara and Lev, from two seemingly irreconcilable worlds, meet during a time of increasing social unrest and prejudice. Their courtship confronts them with the political and racial struggles in Germany during this turbulent period. Klara and Lev, caught in Berlin's upheaval during the rise of National Socialism, must ask themselves who they really are. What are their core values? What, in a world gone mad, is the value of love?
The author, Rita Kuhn wrote Another Ruth to pay tribute to her mother, Frieda Kuhn, a woman of unfailing courage and devotion. It is a fictional story based on true events. Rita's inspiration comes from family lore, old photographs, and family documents.
