Ruth Klüger-Aliav
Ruth Klüger-Aliav (born Polesciuk, born April 27, 1910 in Kiev ; † February 16, 1980 ) was a Ukrainian-Israeli Zionist and secret service agent.
Life
After the outbreak of World War I, her family had to flee pogroms with the four-year-old Ruth in 1914 and later settled in Chernivtsi . Ruth Polesciuk studied law in Vienna and learned several foreign languages; she spoke Russian , Yiddish , German , French , English , Spanish and Hebrew . She joined a Zionist youth organization early on. In 1930 she married Emanuel Klüger (from whom she was divorced in 1940) and emigrated with him to Palestine . There she worked first in a kibbutz , then in the foreign affairs department of the socialist trade union federation Histadrut in Tel Aviv . In 1938 she joined the Hagana organization and in 1939 was one of the founding members of the Mossad le Alija Bet secret service , which organized the illegal flight of threatened European Jews to Palestine. In this role she went to Romania and secretly organized ships that brought threatened Romanian Jews to Palestine, including the Tiger Hill , which called at Tel Aviv on September 2, 1939 with 1,400 Romanian Jews (see History of the Jews in Romania ). At the end of 1940 she had to flee Romania and then worked in Istanbul and then in Cairo . Towards the end of the war, she met survivors of the Holocaust and David Ben-Gurion for the first time in Paris . In 1947 she returned to Palestine and in 1948 traveled to South America on behalf of the Mossad le Alija Bet . From 1949 to 1955 she worked as a manager for the Israeli shipping company Zim Integrated Shipping Services . From 1958 to 1972 she was head of Zim's public relations department.
The American psychologist Erika Freeman is a niece of Ruth Klüger-Aliav.
Honors
- Woman of the Year 1974 of the National Council Of Jewish Women in the US
Works
- The Last Escape , USA 1974 (an autobiography of her actions from 1938 to 1941)
Web links
- Jewish Women's Archive: Encyclopedia: Ruth Aliav-Klüger. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klüger-Aliav, Ruth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Polesciuk, Ruth (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian-Israeli Zionist and secret service agent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1980 |